More bad history out of Hollywood

This time it's Catherine the Great:

Long before women’s liberation and girl power, Catherine the Great not only conspired in the murder of her husband and took over the job of ruling Russia, she also reputedly had hundreds of lovers. . .

Now the woman dubbed by history the Scarlet Empress is to be given one more lover, a young Scotsman, courtesy of Walt Disney and Randall Wallace, the American writer who horrified Scottish historians by suggesting an illicit romance between William Wallace and the English king’s daughter-in-law in Braveheart.

Wallace subsequently scripted Pearl Harbor, one of the most expensive films ever made, and wrote and directed We Were Soldiers, with Braveheart star Mel Gibson as a US commander in Vietnam. He returns to history with Love and Honour, which is set during the war of American independence of 1775-1781.

Posted by David on April 7, 2003 11:22 AM