He was an adult who had lived in aristocratic circles his whole life. He totally knew what was expected of him, and what he was getting in return.

So Edward basically killed his mother by force feeding her cigarettes in her death bed… The two of them laying on the bed in that big empty room was a creep-tastic scene worthy of Hitchcock

That's totally fair. I really just wanted to find an excuse to write royal diddler.

I recently saw her in a Phaedra production at BAM and it was the most ridiculous pretentious non-sensical over the top morsel of merde I have ever seen. And I live in Brooklyn, so that's saying something. I didn't think I'd ever see an audience actually guffawing during a menstrual blood covered incestuous blowjob but…

In the words of the Rt Hon IT'S WEATHER!

After 4 reviews and the writer is still calling Margaret's piece Pete Townshend.
Repeat after me: Pete Townshend = Weird looking British Rocker. Peter Townsend = Weird looking Royal Diddler. COME ON!
Oh, and does the actor playing TOWNSEND in the series have some unfortunate plastic surgery or is he just weirdly made…

I love Phil the Greek as much as anyone but to portray him as progressive because he married only for love is stretching it a bit. He left the Navy with literally only a suitcase and his dad's watch to his name, so the marriage to Elizabeth vastly improved his circumstances. Plus Uncle Dicky MountB actively pushed for…

I read both him and Bertie were also severely abused by his nanny. Which… yikes! But explains a lot.

And weren't they shipped off to the Bahamas after one too many visits to Nazi Germany?

Plus Nazis!

And Mountbatten was already an Anglicization of Battenberg so it's not like Dicky had inherited a generations-old name.

I didn't get what Churchill's obsession was about them living in Buck Palace. So what if their private residence was Clarence House and the official one is BP?

Oxygen probably. She died of lung disease

He also was notoriously late because of his baths… I read Clementine almost turned down his proposal since he was a half hour late because he was taking a bath.

I hear your point but also consider that at that point the coronation was the most viewed TV broadcast ever and changed the idea the world experiences live events. While politically the whole may or may not be aristrocratic nonsense, culturally it was a huge deal.

I didn't see the Philip/Chief banter about medals as demeaning —I thought it was more of an attempt of upper class Brit self-deprecation and teasing that fell flat. But Phil the Greek was definitely racist, probably no more than anyone else from his background and time, but stilll

And she sure qualifies for having that famed Windsor bossom. Rawr…

The Queen Mother was 100% Scottish I believe. The rest, all Germans.
In fact, I wonder if they'll go into the whole trying to change the name of the dynasty to Philips's adopted last name, Mountbatten (really the Battenberg) and Churchill putting the kibosh on that.

So they've got 2 lesbian billionaire characters then, if we count Oprah. What a world!

Its a little confusing but I can't help myself but to read. And comment. Ugh