Top 10 Differences between Sisters (1991 TV Series) and All the King's Daughters (Novel Series)

Top 10 Differences between the 1991 TV series, Sisters and the novel series All the King's Daughters.

10. The Setting

* The 1991 TV series, *Sisters* took place in Winnteka, Illinois, not far from Chicago filled with suburban homes. The *All the King's Daughters* novel took place in Modern-day England.

9. The Four Sisters

* The main characters in the TV show *Sisters*, are four American women who are married or divorced with their own families. Alex, the oldest is married to a WASP and has a rebellious daughter, Reed; Teddy, the second-oldest is a recovering alcoholic who is divorced and has a teenage daughter, Cat; Georgie, the middle sister is married with two sons, and Frankie, the youngest is a marking analyst who is married to Teddy's ex-husband. In *All the King's Daughters*, the main characters are four young Princesses from a fictional royal family who aren't married and had made the list of Eligible Bachelorettes in England. Alexandra, like the '91 counterpart from the TV series, is snobbish and superficial and argues her sister, Theodora the most in the series; Theodora, also like the '91 TV counterpart, has dark hair and is an art enthusiast, but is much of a rebel of the sisters; Georgiana, again like the '91 counterpart, is the sensible one of the sisters, but had many health problems that were addressed to the series; and Francesca, the youngest, is a headstrong and independent princess. But both series see the four women deal with life and love.

8. Teddy vs Theodora

* Both *Sisters* and *All the King's Daughters* had the troubled second-oldest daughter in them. Teddy's storyline's in *Sisters* revolved around her alcoholism, her dealing with her ex-husband being married to her younger sister; her daughter, Cat being raped, getting romantically involved with a police detective, getting shot in the head and finding love again with her neurosurgeon, Gabriel Sorenson. While Theodora, the book counterpart, her storylines revolved around her excessive partying with left the Royal Family embarrassed, her conflict with older sister, Alexandra, having a secret relationship with Alexandra's boyfriend, Pedro Mendoza, a secret relationship with the daughter of US senator, and being engaged to the son of a US President. Teddy and Theodora both have dark hair and were considered the black sheep of the sisters. But they are both interesting characters you can relate to.

7. The sisters' parents

* The Reed sisters' father is deceased from cancer. But in the time, he was alive was a workaholic doctor and an absentee father. Plus, he had affair and was neglecting wife, Beatrice. This led to Beatrice to alcoholism to cope. In *All the King's Daughters*, the four sisters' father is alive, but he wasn't neglectful, but he was a workaholic in becoming a king following his mother's death. Despite his new responsibilities as the King of England, Cyrus does his best to maintain his long-standing marriage to wife Beatrice and deal with his four lovely daughters. Beatrice is a headstrong Queen who does her best to keep both her husband and her four daughters on the straight and narrow.

6. The New Sister storyline

* In the final season of *Sisters*, the departure of Frankie Reed and the actress who portrayed her Julianne Phillips, landed the creation of a new character Dr. Charlotte Charley Hayes, who happened to be the half-sister of the Reed women from their father's affair with a hospital nurse he worked with. In *All the King's Daughters*, Queen Beatrice, who is 46 years old learns from a doctor that she is pregnant with her fifth child. The is called a late-in-life pregnancy.

5. **The sisters' nicknames**

* In Sisters, the sisters are called by their nicknames; Alex, Teddy, Georgie, and Frankie. Which are short for Alexandra, Theodora, Georgiana, and Francesca. In *All the King's Daughters*, the girls are addressed as Alexandra, Theodora, Georgiana, and Francesa, they have several nicknames Alex, Lex, and Lexie; Dora and Dori; Georgie and Gigi; and Fran and Frannie.

4.**The Age Differences**

* The Reed women are adult women with adult lives. Alex and Teddy are in their 40's and are mothers to daughters, while Georgie and Frankie are in their 30's and are mothers to sons. In *All the King's Daughters*, the two oldest princesses are in their early 30s and not married nor have children. The two youngest are in their 20's and also not married nor have children. While the Reed sisters are older and much mature, the royal princesses are younger and barely mature.

3.**The love triangle between Alexandra, Pedro, and Theodora**.

* The *Sisters* TV series saw the love triangle between Teddy, her ex-husband, and her younger sister, Frankie in the first episode. In *All the King's Daughters*, a love triangle storyline centered around Princess Alexandra and her boyfriend, Pedro Mendoza, and her sister, Princess Theodora. After dating Alexandra for about a year, Pedro begins an affair with her sister, Theodora which left readers speechless.

2. Georgiana vs. Francesca storyline

* The *Sisters* TV series call a rift between Georgie and Frankie over baby Thomas George. Georgie was the surrogate mother to the baby for both Frankie and her husband, Mitch and tried to get custody of the baby. The *All the King's Daughters* novel series, saw a rift Georgiana and Francesca over Canadian heartthrob, Dean Harper. Dean was one of Francesca's old loves from her previous trips to Canada and had an on/off relationship. Georgiana had an affair with Dean, which resulted in a feud between her and Francesca.

1. The End.

* While *Sisters* ended its run in 1996, *All the King's Daughters* is still ongoing with numerous spinoffs. The TV series finale saw the death of the sisters' mother and the sisters starting new chapters in their lives. The novel series saw more storylines and changes continue throughout the series.

## Honorable Mentions

* *Sisters*, the TV series, had a fifth sister, Charley, while *All the King's Daughters* saw the birth of a fifth princess, Princess Samantha.
* Georgie, the character on *Sisters* was either a red head, a brunette, or a blonde, while Georgiana, the character in *All the King's Daughters* is a strawberry blonde.
* Frankie on *Sisters*, was never in a love triangle storyline while Francesca in the *All the King Daughters* series was involved in two big love triangle storylines.
* The scene in *Sisters* saw Alex and Teddy fight over who would carry Frankie's baby, while in *All the King's Daughters* series, Alexandra and Theodora fight over who would plan Francesca's Hen Do party following her engagement to Mark Hughes.