5/31/2023 0 Comments Monster crown royal![]() “The monarchy is a tremendously important part of British identity for good and ill and I think The Crown makes people think about that,” he says. Lacey argues that one of the show’s key aspects is the way in which it allows us to reconsider both our past and how we feel about the nation. “It’s made it into a sort of entertainment, which it wasn’t before, but I think it’s also allowed people to appreciate both the challenges and the benefits of being in the Royal Family.” Throughout it all Colman gives us a portrait of a woman placing duty first, determined that no one will ever know what she really feels. ![]() That notion of the Queen as a steady rock at the centre of an increasingly turbulent world is a recurring theme in the new season as we watch Elizabeth deal with a new prime minister, Jason Watkins’ bluff Harold Wilson, and a national tragedy in the form of the Aberfan mining disaster, as well the growing pains of her two oldest children, Charles and Anne, and her sister Margaret’s (Helena Bonham Carter) increasing discontent. For almost seven decades, through countless prime ministers and presidents and other world leaders, she’s been the constant.” “Here is this person who’s seen an unbelievable amount of history and change and turmoil and insanity and joy and tragedy. I think we all hoped that The Crown would peel back the layers on the onion a bit where she is concerned,” says Heather Cocks, US journalist and one half of fashion blogger duo the Fug girls, who co-wrote The Royal We, a 2015 novel about a fictionalised British royal family. “Most of us have only known a world in which Queen Elizabeth sits on the throne. Netflix’s glossy series about the life and times of the British monarchy released its third series yesterday, and it’s arguably the best so far, as an embattled Elizabeth, now played by Olivia Colman, wrestles with middle age and the pressures of duty versus reality. Her very existence offers many people a sense of stability – a belief that as long as the Queen is alive then nothing too terrible can happen. In the 67 years since she has been on the throne Queen Elizabeth has weathered deaths, divorces and national tragedies. So what brought about this change? In part it’s a simple matter of longevity. She has been described as an “ ultimate feminist”, been the subject of endless lists titled things like ‘ 25 Reasons Why We Love the Queen’ and seen her outfits, hats and even her brooches eagerly dissected by a new generation. But as far as the Queen herself goes, the 93-year-old is now arguably the most popular member of the Royal Family. Scandal is still never far away from the Royals – as evidenced by this weekend’s television interview with Prince Andrew over his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Queen’s slow response and failure to return immediately from Balmoral would see her pilloried by press and public alike as the British monarchy’s stock reached its lowest point in living memory.įlash forward 22 years and circumstances are different. In a speech marking the 40th anniversary of her accession to the throne, Queen Elizabeth II infamously described 1992, a year which had seen two royal divorces, the publication of Diana, Princess of Wales’, tell-all memoir, Diana: Her True Story, and a devastating fire at Windsor Castle, as an “ annus horribilis”.įive years later, on 31 August 1997, Diana was killed in a car crash.
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