She was a 19 year old virgin who loved reading Barbara Cartland novels. She wasn't savvy. I'm sure she mostly believed the fairytale was going to magically happen for her. 

He’s also overcoming being a real looker to embody such a sniveling character. Charles is definitely nowhere near as handsome as that actor. He and Adam Driver have that gangly but secretly ripped to shreds body type that is very appealing. Like giant trees. 

It was code to help those persecuted for religion in England.

There are reasons why even small-time history podcasts have policies against covering living people.

Add streaming, interactive snuff channels to the list of horrors that clearly indicate the dystopian future is now.

You’re absolutely right. If everyone had kept their nose out of his business and let a grown ass adult marry who he wanted, then this wouldn’t have happened.

I haven’t actually watched The Crown but I have had that same thought Re: Charles and Camilla. But I think it’s a bit unfair because I imagine it was much easier for Edward to abdicate since his monarch parent was already dead and he was in charge. I don’t know a lot about Mary of Teck but I think she was a pretty…

Yes! The best characters IMO aren’t the most likable ones, but complicated, multi-layered messes. I think the actor who plays Charles is fantastic, and nails so many of his micro mannerisms it’s eerie. I read that the body movement coach for The Crown assigned each actor a specific animal to study, and the actor…

Totally agree with the first part (except Camilla refused to divorce her husband at the time...? Like, wouldn’t even hear of it?) but I do think Diana enjoyed the spotlight. She was a natural performer, which is fine, but definitely struggled to find the right platform. I still think her charisma was an asset,…

One of the things they don’t tell you about getting older is that you come to realize you are probably the villain in at least a few people’s stories, which in turn makes you reexamine your judgement about others. I’d like to think Charles, anyone, all of us, work with what we’re given, fuck up, and proceed from…

I was saying this to my husband the other day, how I couldn’t understand why Charles and Diana didn’t just come to ye age olde agreement of keeping their affairs as lowkey as possible, showing up together when they had to, treating each other with polite respect, and otherwise pursuing the kind of marriage even…

I think they’re shitty in that they were both born and raised in astonishing privilege and that tends to make people assholes by default, but they don’t at all strike me as the villains the media paints them to be. Life is messy, emotions can be messier, and when you’re dealing with inbred aristocrats clinging to…

I have a feeling that separate lives approach is what the rest of the Windsors were expecting to happen and probably described many of their marriages.

Yeah, it was those references to Camilla’s looks that got me on her side. It was all just so gross and depressing to see how superficial it all was.

The actor playing Charles is definitely hitting it out of the park. And it’s complex and there’s sympathy. But really, aren’t the best roles the ones that allow you to be in that morally grey area, if not straight up bad? Iago has more lines than Othello; Scar is the best part of The Lion King; Hans Gruber over for…

God knows, I am Team Diana and always have been—but at this point, Charles and Camilla are together, they’re happy, they were clearly meant to be together and most importantly, the boys seem to be fine with it. If they still resented her it would be different but from everything I’ve read, that isn’t the case. (I will …

They’re big business and have been portrayed as a point of national pride in the UK for decades/centuries, so it’s not surprising that there’s not widespread support for getting rid of them.

I was honestly shocked that you couldn’t be sued for this?? Like it seems so obviously misleading about their lives.

I thought Camilla came off well in the Crown, but Charles...oh Charles...

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