[RG_]

I'll get the ball rolling in this forum by throwing out a title. To date, probably my favorite mainstream spanking scene is that of Jane, in the movie Lady Jane. The movie was about Lady Jane Grey who was, due to political machinations, was elevated to the throne of England in the 1500's. I won't go into the details of the affair here, but she only reigned for nine days and is known to history as the "Nine Days Queen." She was deposed, imprisoned in the Tower of London, and was finally executed at the age of 16. (She was 15 years of age while Queen.)

In the story leading up to her marriage to Guildford Dudley and ascension to the throne, Jane objects to the arranged (and from her view, forced) marriage to Dudley. When she is defiant with her parents, she is escorted to an upper room where she is given a very formal chastisement. In the room a stool with high arms is set before her, and then the men who set the stool in place are dismissed from the room, leaving only her mother and her female attendants. Jane then kneels and lays across the seat of the stool, and two female attendants, one on each side, lift the back of her dress and lay it on her back. Another then hands her mother a bundle of tied birch switches, who then uses applies it to Jane's apparently bare bottom. The view is shown from the front, and Jane can be seen wincing with the strokes. The scene then fades to the outside of the castle/manor house, showing a boat making its way on the river as the strokes can still be heard in the background.

It's a great domestic/parental scene, done with much ceremony, in a beautiful period setting and costumes.

RG