MEGHAN: Harry, what middle name should we give to our baby?
HARRY: *looks at baby*
HARRY: *looks down at himself*
HARRY: Harry son
the royals
(yes I’m bingewatching some more of The Crown) Actually the scene where Philip imagines his sister’s death is really well done and the Nazi funeral scene is really creepy and unsettling. I suppose I feel sorry for young Philip, I just… strongly dislike old Philip. (I’m not fond of Even Older, Still Alive Philip either, even though everyone else seems to be.)
s’interesting to look at this episode in the light of what’s been going on with the royal family in the past few years, Harry coming out about going off the rails after his mother’s death and seeing a therapist and eventually starting a mental health campaign. That would’ve made a really good coda to this episode actually.
idishido
replied to your post “Okay currently the news is full of nothing else but Prince Harry…”
Isn’t non-transgressive humanitatian activism what the Royal family do these days anyway?
Actually that’s a pretty good way of putting it, yeah
I do remember Diana got some pushback from them when she started campaigning for AIDs victims in the 80s though
Okay currently the news is full of nothing else but Prince Harry marrying Meghan Markle. I’m interested to see what she’ll do, she’ll be the first biracial member of the royal family in… ever? I’m hoping she won’t be cowed by the weird in-house demands on the royal family and continue the activism I know she does
It’s the 20th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death today and the light entertainment shows are full of nothing else but talk about it. Strangely, I can actually remember Diana’s death really clearly, perhaps because it was the first Big Historical Happening I was old enough to understand? I was nine years old and I got up early to play with my Duplo and Lego. So I was doing that, and then my dad came into the room and said very sombrely (he does that) “People are going to be very sad today, Sarah.” I imagine my mind jumped about all over the place before I said “Why?” and he said, “Princess Diana died.” And then I suppose I went back to the Duplo. For the rest of the day while we were doing normal things, I remember there were newsflashes coming on over the car radio and constantly interrupting it, just repeating again and again “Princess Diana has died in car crash in Paris” etc etc.
Looking back on it it seems so surreal, that the whole country came to a standstill for someone who wasn’t really in a position of much political power or anything. I suppose some people saw her as a symbol of a more modern and down-to-earth royal family (although when she died she wasn’t technically a member of it?) and I know she did some very good work for AIDS awareness, but all the sobbing on TV, that was really… weird. No-one seemed to stop talking about it for months afterwards.
‘London Bridge is down’: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death
‘London Bridge is down’: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death
This is both fascinating from a historial standpoint and also in a weird way hilariously ghoulish
been watching The Crown
The acting and costuming and directing are all incredible, but there’s a little bit too much exposition in the dialogue, too many times when a character has something explained for them that they should already know just for the benefit of the audience. (You’d think the Queen would have known from childhood what a regnal name is.)
Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson are somewhat whitewashed, no mention is made at all about the pair of them probably being Nazi sympathizers. Prince Phillip is actually not whitewashed, the show makes it pretty clear that he was an obnoxious racist and total dick most of the time, which I believe he still is in fact…
I love how people keep referring to Elizabeth in-show as “a child” even though before she even became Queen she was a fully grown woman with two children. It doesn’t skimp on showing just how much sexism she faced even when she had a crown on her head.
One thing this show makes abundantly clear is that it sucks being a royal, and I agree to be honest. Sure, you have privilege and wealth and power (though really, not that much power) but in return you basically have no freedom whatsoever. You can’t marry who you want, you can’t dress how you want, you can’t say what you want if anyone is listening, you can barely do anything really. And you have to be smiling so frequently you need Botox injections just so you can keep doing it. (That was a particularly memorable scene. Wonder if it really happened.) I tell you, I don’t envy Kate Middleton and her kids, not one bit.
