Synopsis

Dolley Madison witnessed the nation’s formative conflicts, maintained friendships with the nation's first twelve presidents, and observed America's transformation from a fledgling republic to the world's first modern democracy. Revered as "Queen Dolley," her death in 1849, at the age of eighty-one – a rare survivor of the founding generation – prompted Washington City to bestow upon her the largest state funeral ever held for a woman in its history. The story of Dolley Madison stars Tony Awar