The Crown, Season 3

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Anonymous wrote:When they had their second set of kids - Andrew and Edward they publicly announced they'd be stepping back from public life and having more privacy. I have seen Philip in old news footage saying exactly that - but the public wanted to see them, the tourists especially so they had to relinquish any sense that freedom could be found and knuckle down to a truly public life.

I think its covered in the Netflix documentary name I can't remember.

And look good great Andrew turned out. Oh wait...

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Episode 5, “Coup” isn’t holding my interest. I’m hanging in there...

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I found this season boring until the episode where Charles goes to Wales. I think the actor playing him is phenomenal.
I am still confused on this supposed deep love between him and camilla when there was another man in the picture??
Last episode was boring again but maybe I feel that way because Helen Bonham Carter is too fiery and short to play Margaret.

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Anonymous wrote:It's QEII on the spectrum? The way Olivia Coleman plays her is beyond stoic. And I understand about not showing emotion in public and not picking a political stance. But even in private, to her own children, and she said she was always like that, even as a kid. She is somewhat warmer to her sister Margaret and husband Prince Philip

Everyone is on it somewhere, its a spectrum, after all.

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How many of you get the feeling that this is just Brittish propaganda promoting the royal family?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the "let you in on a secret--nobody cares how you feel" is meant to refer to both her and Charles; the "you" is plural, as in, "nobody cares how the monarch feels" because the job is to be separate, apart, and looked up to, and (as stated in a later episode) not show your cracks.

well she could have said that: like, "nobody cares how we feel", but she didn't. She's not very gentle here and no explanation why she needs to be that harsh with him at this early stage of his life.

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Anonymous wrote:How many of you get the feeling that this is just Brittish propaganda promoting the royal family?

Does it promote them? I dislike Elizabeth after watching this season.

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Anonymous wrote:How many of you get the feeling that this is just Brittish propaganda promoting the royal family?

Does it promote them? I dislike Elizabeth after watching this season.

It has subtle propaganda regarding the institution of the monarchy
What are your comments on how their expenses are handled? Access to tax payers money and other funds

Do you think the show lines up with reality

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I dislike Elizabeth now, feel contempt for Philip, and marvel at the way these ordinary people are kind of scamsters. Why, in their minds, are they entitled to these lives they live? Do they believe they are chosen by God, that they are superior??

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Anonymous wrote:I dislike Elizabeth now, feel contempt for Philip, and marvel at the way these ordinary people are kind of scamsters. Why, in their minds, are they entitled to these lives they live? Do they believe they are chosen by God, that they are superior??

They are born into a role.

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Anonymous wrote:I dislike Elizabeth now, feel contempt for Philip, and marvel at the way these ordinary people are kind of scamsters. Why, in their minds, are they entitled to these lives they live? Do they believe they are chosen by God, that they are superior??

There was a line by the Queen Mother in the first season that was exactly an expression of their superiority. I can't remember exactly what she said, but it sort of startled me. I had always seen the QM as this adorable and beloved old woman, but this whole series undermines that.

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Anonymous wrote:I dislike Elizabeth now, feel contempt for Philip, and marvel at the way these ordinary people are kind of scamsters. Why, in their minds, are they entitled to these lives they live? Do they believe they are chosen by God, that they are superior??

There was a line by the Queen Mother in the first season that was exactly an expression of their superiority. I can't remember exactly what she said, but it sort of startled me. I had always seen the QM as this adorable and beloved old woman, but this whole series undermines that.

That woman was a vindictive shrew with a gambling addiction.

Its so annoying. The British press hide the 'fallacies' of the royals until they can't (unless they're Meghan and they don't even bother trying). Its why the British are always so 'shocked' when their favorite sons and daughters are revealed as people who want to be tampons and pedophiles.

But the Queen Mother was known to have made several of the women in the royal family miserable, she's the reason the former King's wife was never welcomed into the family, she also prevented Prince Charles from marrying Camilla in the first place and its also no coincidence that Camilla still didn't get married to Charles until 8 years after Diana's death and 2 years after the official mourning period for the Queen Mother's death was over.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/sep/15/tanya-gold-queen-mother

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Anonymous wrote:It's QEII on the spectrum? The way Olivia Coleman plays her is beyond stoic. And I understand about not showing emotion in public and not picking a political stance. But even in private, to her own children, and she said she was always like that, even as a kid. She is somewhat warmer to her sister Margaret and husband Prince Philip

I was thinking that too; a bit Aspie...but what got me thinking it is the actress plays Princess Anne very Aspie.

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Anonymous wrote:I found this season boring until the episode where Charles goes to Wales. I think the actor playing him is phenomenal.
I am still confused on this supposed deep love between him and camilla when there was another man in the picture??

I'm no expert on this but I looked it up and sounds like the show takes liberties with this storyline. First, Anne was not fooling around with (that guy) at the same time. And second, Camilla was not fooling around with (that guy) at the same time as Charles.
By the way they film Camilla, the show isn't very sympathetic to her or make us understand what makes her so appealing to the deeply sensitive Charles. And by changing the storyline so she's messing with the two men at the same time, it really doesn't make one sympathetic.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I found this season boring until the episode where Charles goes to Wales. I think the actor playing him is phenomenal.
I am still confused on this supposed deep love between him and camilla when there was another man in the picture??

I'm no expert on this but I looked it up and sounds like the show takes liberties with this storyline. First, Anne was not fooling around with (that guy) at the same time. And second, Camilla was not fooling around with (that guy) at the same time as Charles.
By the way they film Camilla, the show isn't very sympathetic to her or make us understand what makes her so appealing to the deeply sensitive Charles. And by changing the storyline so she's messing with the two men at the same time, it really doesn't make one sympathetic.

Ummm...she was messing around with two men at the same time.

That's how she ended up married while Charles was off on tour overseas.

And before she nabbed him, Anne was fooling around with the same man.