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Sorry, not quite sure how that happened - I was replying to another comment complaining about the casting for Martin Bashir, but somehow my message came out as a reply to your comment about something else ...

For a minute there I thought, midway through eating Diana’s fried-cum-scrambled eggs, Dominic West was going to roughly clear the dining table as they proceeded to tear each others clothes off!

Duke Hussey happens to be married to one of the queen’s ladies in waiting

a very obviously Sri Lankan man to play a Pakistani

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An aside - I’m loving all these KLR vids:

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An aside - I’m loving all these KLR vids:

I don’t know about that - the show also portrays him as a scheming, power-hungry backstabber, ready to stitch up the Queen at the earliest possibility. I was half-expecting a scene where he’s standing over a sleeping
Imelda staunton, with a pillow in hand ready to smother mother - but then changes his mind ...

Speaking of skipping the credits, I was puzzled by mention in this review of Prince Charles breakdancing! Had to go back to watch the tail end of this episode to catch it ...

We got the full breakdown of the reactions of members of the Royal family when reading the transcripts of Tampongate (Princess Anne’s downturned-mouth look-of-disgust while reading was priceless!) but I found myself wondering what the Parker Bowles family reaction must’ve been like. Especially the kids who seemed to

Just read this interview with Olivia Williams on Vulture:

Um, who the actual fuck was waiting to relive Tampongate! Being English and living in London at the time, I think I and the rest of the country did enough cringing back then. So much so that I think I’m numb to it now - I was less shocked by the actual words in the “reenactment” of that call, and more so by the fact

The year is 1989, and he retreats to his room to call Camilla (Olivia Williams)

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Also, I immediately remembered this anecdote from Miriam Margolyes:

The “lookback window” began on January 1, 2020, and will close on January 1, 2023.

Well, I for one am totally unshocked that someone called Elvis316 is on the side of the old dude alleged to have had sex with a 14 year old ...

You just said a whole bunch of nothing.

Without being spoilery, episode 2 addresses this by showing what happens when she does.

You’re basically saying that if an employer pays for you to travel somewhere nice for work, every second of your day becomes their property to dictate.

OK, I have what I know many will see as a hot take: