As the Sandringham Company advanced onto the battlefield, a strange mist was seen to descend and engulf them - almost as though God was wrapping them up and taking them from the terror that awaited... It was the last that was ever seen of the Sandringham Company and the mystery of that disappearance remains to this day. An all-star cast portrays this most poignant and mysterious event of the First World War - the disappearance in action of the Sandringham Company at Gallipoli in 1915. Commanded by the Estate Manager, Captain Frank Beck (David Jason), they were just ordinary men - servants, grooms and gardeners - drawn from the staff of the King's private residence. They left an idyllic rural existence for the fatally ill-prepared campaign and their deaths brought the horrors of the First World War to the heart of the establishment - and to the Royal Family itself...
'Matter Of Fact' - a documentary looking at the true story behind 'All The King's Men', presented by HRH The Prince Of Wales