早间新闻第二季

原文链接Series one, episode one: Wolferton SplashThe series opens with King George VI spewing blood into a lavatory pan, to indicate that he is a sick man. Before the opening credits, there is a scene in which the King invests Prince Philip, as Duke of Edinburgh. Prince Philip is described as a Prince of Greece and ‘of’ Denmark. Then the King knights him as he bestows titles on him in the wrong order, and only then gives him the Order of the Garter. There is a scene in which the King uses the ‘C’ word. We are introduced to the Prince Philip character, portrayed throughout the series as a kind of ‘Jack the Lad’, smoking a cigarette on the day before the wedding and treating it all as something of a game.This episode introduces the various themes. We see tension between the King and Prince Philip, we meet Group Captain Peter Townsend hovering amorously around Princess Margaret, and Princess Elizabeth preparing for her future role, at work with her father.At the 1947 royal wedding Prince Philip’s mother is depicted in a nun’s habit – in reality she was a civilian then and did not adopt the habit (which she wore at the Coronation) until 1948. But this allows Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) to describe her disparagingly as ‘the hun nun’. But then she calls her daughter ‘Elizabeth’ when it was always ‘Lilibet’. There are scenes in Malta of Princess Elizabeth’s carefree life, though her son, Prince Charles, was not in Malta at that time.The King has to have an operation, so we see Princess Margaret waiting anxiously with Queen Mary and the King with his doctors. There are gory scenes of the lung being removed and the lung is wrapped up in a copy of The Times (a story gleaned from Hugh Trevor-Roper’s letters). There is a scene where Sir John Weir, the well-known homeopathic doctor, informs the King of the gravity of his illness despite the operation. It is curious that this role was assigned to Weir. In reality he failed to give the King proper advice. He was even mistrusted by the admirable Dr Margery Blackie, the most distinguished of homeopathic doctors, who had little time for him.In 1948 Dermot Morrah, a respected Times writer, reported privately that the King was in danger of losing his leg: ‘One special source of anxiety is his personal physician – a homeopathic quack with a fascination for women, some of whom planted him on Edward, Prince of Wales, who bequeathed him to his successor as official medical officer. Of course they’ve called in good men as consultants, Cassidy and Learmouth especially, but this old menace is there all the time, and it was he who let the trouble go to this length before sounding the alarm.’It was as bad in 1951, in which this episode is set. Weir accompanied the King to Balmoral for the summer. The worldly doctor enjoyed himself shooting with Scottish dukes. Only when the local doctor was called in was the gravity of the King’s illness appreciated, resulting in him being whisked down to London to have his lung removed. Following that, those who understood such things realised that the King’s life was likely to be short.This episode depicts Churchill becoming Prime Minister again (in October 1951), and suggests that neither he nor the King are in good health, the King is forced to wear rouge (which was the case). In reality it is not certain how much the King was told about his state of health. The episode ends with Princess Elizabeth looking at the King’s boxes, and in a sense facing her destiny.A minor mistake: Princess Elizabeth’s car has the royal coat of arms on it. This is reserved for the monarch. Lady Churchill’s GBE riband at the wedding is too red and too wide.Series one, episode two: Hyde Park CornerEpisode 1 warned us that the King’s life was in danger. Episode 2 carries him off. It starts with Princess Elizabeth arriving in Kenya on the first leg of the proposed Commonwealth tour she is undertaking on her father’s behalf.We see the royal limousine arriving at an event and the Royal Standard fluttering on the front of it, the inference here being that Princess Elizabeth has already become Queen, but no, it is the wrong Royal Standard. Princess Elizabeth’s would have had a label of three white points. Soon afterwards a cocky Prince Philip mocks a Kikuyu chieftain for wearing a medal to which he is apparently not entitled, in fact a VC, though this is not explained. This was in February 1952 and yet Prince Philip was wearing a 1953 Coronation medal, which, arguably, might not have mattered, but for the fact that he was chiding someone else for wearing the wrong medal.As they arrive at Treetops for the fateful night of 5/6 February, the Prince Philip character does a Crocodile Dundee feat in seeing off a bull elephant. In reality there were no elephants there that day or night.The scenes in which Lord Salisbury is seen plotting to get rid of Churchill have not been well received by the Cecil family due to inaccuracies. He would never have elicited the help of Lord Mountbatten, for example. Anthony Eden did not go to Sandringham to ask the King to exercise his constitutional right to remove the Prime Minister from office on account of his incapacity to run the country properly, least of all in February 1952. Churchill himself is given a fictitious secretary called Venetia Scott, so that she can play a role in Episode 4.Following the King’s death, we see a gruesome scene in which Princess Margaret visits the body of her father during the embalming process. Churchill did not broadcast in the presence of the entire Cabinet, yet his actual words are as moving to listen to today as they surely were at the time. Tommy Lascelles, the Private Secretary, is invested with a most sinister role. He is given good lines, such as when he passes on the Queen Mother’s offer to Townsend to become her Comptroller at Clarence House: ‘I don’t expect you to accept.’Minor mistakes: It was not Lascelles who told Churchill of the King’s death, it was Sir Edward Ford; Queen Mary was told by Lady Cynthia Colville, not by a footman; it is unlikely that Princess Elizabeth had just written to her father before hearing of his death; Queen Mary did not come to Sandringham to curtsy to the new Queen (that happened at Marlborough House); there is no evidence that Lascelles caught Princess Margaret and Townsend kissing; contemporary evidence proves that the Queen Mother did not cry hysterically when she heard of the King’s death (she was far too stoical); Martin Charteris did not disappear from royal service immediately after the King’s death (he became part of the team, though no longer the new Queen’s actual Private Secretary). Some of these things are acceptable under the heading of dramatic licence.Series one, episode three: WindsorBack we go to 1936, seeing Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret playing just before their uncle, King Edward VIII, broadcasts his Abdication speech. There is no way that Queen Mary would have come into the room to see the King to try to dissuade him from broadcasting. And Mrs Simpson was not hovering in the background as he made that speech. In reality she was in Cannes. In the real abdication speech he was announced as ‘His Royal Highness Prince Edward’ not as Duke of Windsor.Presently there are many scenes involved with the aftermath of King George VI’s death, the young Queen wearing black and sometimes a black veil, and Tommy Lascelles becoming ever more the dominant figure in the Palace.Two big issues are explored to show how Prince Philip no longer has any say in the running of his family. There are many scenes of the redecoration of Clarence House, and he wants the family to stay there. He insists that the Queen puts this proposal to Churchill. The other issue is the family name. It is understood that, in real life, the Queen and Prince Philip would have preferred to stay at Clarence House, which was the perfect London home for a young family, not too big, and with a well-sized garden. Buckingham Palace has always served multiple purposes: a series of state rooms, offices for members of the Household, and the King and Queen’s rooms along a long corridor on the Constitution Hill side. It must have been a bit like living in an Edwardian hotel. But Churchill insisted that the monarch must live in the Palace, and so they moved in on 5 May 1952. The Queen Mother moved into Clarence House on 18 May 1953.The name issue was another genuine cause for Prince Philip to be upset. As seen in this episode, Lord Mountbatten, curiously dressed for dinner in his own home (Broadlands) as an Admiral, boasts, with some justification, that the House of Mountbatten now reigns in Britain. Normally the male who marries a Queen Regnant gives his name to the new house, hence Queen Victoria was the last Queen of the House of Hanover which became Saxe-Coburg when she married Prince Albert in 1840. Prince Ernst August of Hanover was at Mountbatten’s table in 1952 and did not like what he heard. He informed Queen Mary who called for Jock Colville, then Private Secretary to Winston Churchill. The Prime Minister duly informed the Queen that the Royal House must be called the House of Windsor. There is a fictional scene in which the Queen reads out this declaration to the Privy Council.It is true that Prince Philip was livid about this though, in reality, he wanted it called the House of Edinburgh, rather than Mountbatten, the preferred choice of his ever-manipulative uncle. Harold Macmillan recorded that Prince Philip wrote a well-reasoned memorandum making his case, but the Government would not countenance the Mountbatten name being used. In opposing Prince Philip, ministers such as Macmillan were keen to send ‘a shot across his bows’, to keep the young consort in his place.The Duke of Windsor comes over for his brother’s funeral, and the series makes much of the newly styled Queen Mother’s hostility to him. The Duke of Windsor also wants various things. There is a lot of bargaining in this episode. The Queen asks Churchill to do her a favour by informing the Cabinet about the Mountbatten name, claiming that she is keeping him in office by agreeing to a delayed Coronation. In fact the Coronation was always planned for June 1953 as it takes a long time to arrange such a ceremony.Then Churchill asks the Duke of Windsor to help put various points to the Queen – for example to be an intermediary over the other two issues of this episode, the family name and the move to Buckingham Palace. In exchange, the Duke wants to retain the allowance King George VI promised him (which ceased at the King’s death) and again demanded an HRH for the Duchess. There is a curious scene in which three contrasting aspects of love are explored – we see a sequence with the Windsors dancing romantically, the Queen and Prince Philip at the opera (where he takes her hand), and Princess Margaret popping in to Townsend’s office to kiss him with some passion.The Duke of Windsor then lunches with the Queen, which did not happen in real life, and puts Churchill’s two points to her. Most erroneously, we find the new young Queen turning to the Duke of Windsor for avuncular advice. He is presented as a sage and explains in the almost Shakespearean language the scriptwriters give him why she, as a monarch, must move from Clarence House to Buckingham Palace.Alex Jennings, the actor, looks incredibly like the Duke of Windsor, but the real life Duke never delivered such Shakespearean oratory. Nor would the real Queen ever have asked for advice from a man so patently incapable of giving it.The Duke of Windsor had been immensely tiresome ever since the Abdication in 1936, and Tommy Lascelles had seen him off on more than one occasion, most effectively in 1945. The Royal Family felt gravely let down by the Abdication, and Lascelles wrote at one point in the 1940s that any appearance in Britain by the Duke would have a grave effect on the health and peace of mind of George VI. Later on, in real life, the Queen was courteous to her uncle, and various rapprochements were made before he died, but the trouble with the Duke of Windsor was that if he was given an inch, he would take a mile.In other themes, we see Prince Philip asking Group Captain Townsend to teach him to fly, a theme followed up in the next episode. He did learn at White Waltham, near Maidenhead, but was taught by Flight Lieutenant C.R. Gordon, of Cheltenham. He received his wings from Air Chief Marshal Sir William Dickson, on 4 May 1953, having flown for 90 to 100 hours.The film-makers also introduce the idea that Prince Philip bullied Prince Charles, which is again addressed in later episodes.Minor mistakes: Prince Philip was a descendant of the royal houses of Greece and Denmark, but not of Norway. King Haakon of Norway (1872-1957) was a Prince of Denmark who was given the Norwegian throne in 1905.A recurring mistake throughout the series: All the characters arrive at Buckingham Palace through the ceremonial front gates. Normally they enter via the gate to the right near Constitution Hill.Series one, episode four: Act of GodThis is a curious episode based on the great fog that descended on London between 5 and 9 December 1952. This fog caused some spontaneous burglaries and one murder. London was perfectly used to fog, so it was not treated as a particular emergency until much later when it was estimated that between 4,000 and 12,000 people died – though most of them had breathing problems or were very old. Most of this episode is fictional and did not happen. Obviously the scenes involving Churchill’s fictional secretary, Venetia Scott, were made up. She is killed when hit by a bus, but since there was no public transport, other than trains on the London Underground, due to the fog, this could not have happened.The film-makers then involve Churchill failing to take action, the question of Clement Attlee, the Leader of the Opposition, potentially turning the situation to political advantage, and Churchill’s decision to visit a hospital during the crisis, but all this is fiction too. Interestingly the fog did not rate a mention in Martin Gilbert’s official biography of Churchill.The other scenes involve Prince Philip learning to fly and Government annoyance at this. Queen Mary falls ill and takes to her bed, attended by Sir John Weir. The Queen walks through the fog to visit her ailing grandmother to discuss what is expected of her as a monarch.Series one, episode five: Smoke and MirrorsThere is a flashback to 11 May, with George VI explaining the significance of anointing in the Coronation ceremony, and talking of the weight of the crown, both actual and symbolic. The action then moves forward to 1953, with the Queen trying on the same crown before her Coronation.Queen Mary falls gravely ill, which brings the Duke of Windsor over. In this series he comes from France, though he actually came with his sister, the Princess Royal, from New York. There are lots of opportunities for him to complain to the Duchess of Windsor about his family, his mother and his treatment. The Queen is warned by the Queen Mother to be wary of the Duke – ‘like mercury, he’ll slip through the tiniest crack.’ During his visit, the Duke is summoned from Marlborough House to Lambeth Palace where he finds the Archbishop of Canterbury, Tommy Lascelles and one other, ranged against him explaining why he should not attend the Coronation and that the Duchess would not be invited. The Duke is furious, but he agrees to put out a statement explaining why he won’t be there.While he is at Lambeth Palace, a message comes through that Queen Mary has died. In reality the Duke was not at Lambeth Palace. Her funeral is shown (with the Royal Standard on her coffin, not her personal standard).In real life, the question of the Duke’s possible attendance preoccupied the Archbishop of Canterbury as early as November 1952 and he raised the matter with the Queen at lunch. It was agreed that his presence ‘would create a very difficult situation for everybody, and if had not the wits to see that for himself, then he ought to be told it.’ Churchill took the line that while it was understandable that the Duke would wish to be present at family funerals, it would be completely inappropriate for him to attend the Coronation of one of his successors. Tommy Lascelles wrote to the Duke’s lawyers making it clear that no summons would be forthcoming. A statement was prepared for the Duke to issue to save face, but he must have alarmed the British Government by giving an interview at Cherbourg in which he said he might well be in England at the time of the ceremony. As it happened he and the Duchess stayed in Paris and watched it on television with friends, a scene recreated in this episode. We see the Duke explaining the proceedings in the Abbey, again in Shakespearean phrases, to a group of undistinguished guests. The episode ends with him playing his bagpipes outside the house, with tears in his eyes, presumably to hint that he is regretting all that he discarded.The other main theme in this episode is the role of Prince Philip in the preparations and also in respect of the part he intends to play in the ceremony. Here he only agrees to chair the Coronation Committee if he has total control and we see him coming out with all sorts of modern ideas for the day, such as inviting Trade Union leaders and businessmen to take part. He is told that some things cannot be changed. There is a row with the Queen and he tells her he refuses to kneel before her to do homage. In the end he is obliged to do so, but he is given credit for insisting the ceremony be televised.Having written a book on the Coronation and delved into the Archbishop of Canterbury’s papers I can testify that these reveal the Archbishop of Canterbury, pushing Prince Philip out as much as possible. He pronounced: “There must be no association of him in any way with the process & rite of Coronation.” Yet they also show that Prince Philip was quite happy to do fealty after the Archbishop (when he could have been expected to go first) and that he presented a silver gilt wafer box to the Abbey, and a chalice and paten to Lambeth as a form of offering to respect taking his place next to the Queen during the communion.Unlike other flaky consorts such as Prince Claus of the Netherlands and Prince Henrik of Denmark, Prince Philip was raised within the Royal House of Greece. But for the birth of the future King Constantine in 1940, he would have ended up as King of Greece in 1964, and marriage with Princess Elizabeth would have been out of the question. In real life he adapted quickly to his changed circumstances, but in The Crown, they put him in conflict at every opportunity.The Coronation scene was a wonderful opportunity to create a scene of great visual magnificence but it fell seriously short in regard to a great number of details. Earl Mountbatten, seated in the front row of the Royal Box (he was not in the front row) appears dressed in ducal robes, and is not wearing his Garter collar. Nor is the supporting actor representing the Queen’s uncle, the Duke of Gloucester. The Marquess of Salisbury carries the Sword of State (which he did at the actual Coronation), but he crowns himself with an Earl’s coronet. The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire (Mistress of the Robes) fails to put on a coronet. The oath was not administered during the anointing but before it. There are a number of peeresses sitting where the Peers sat in reality. Thus this scene is one of the least convincing in the series.The St Edward’s Crown with which the Queen is crowned was far too big, but this may have been intentional to demonstrate the burden the Queen was assuming.Series one, episode six: GeligniteThe theme of this episode is the Princess Margaret – Peter Townsend love affair and their attempt to marry in 1953. The opening scene shows the Queen and Prince Philip going to the Coronation Derby, but we then see a newspaper office where an unshaven journalist has picked up what he realises is a huge scoop (hence ‘gelignite’) – Princess Margaret having been observed picking some fluff off the jacket of Group Captain Peter Townsend at the Coronation – he being by then a divorced equerry. Princess Margaret and Townsend are on the point of accompanying the Queen Mother on an official visit to Rhodesia.The Princess invites the Queen and Prince Philip to dine with her and Townsend and they believe that they have her blessing, but they soon run up against the establishment. Tommy Lascelles invokes the Royal Marriages Act of 1772, which stated that no lineal descendant of George II could marry without the consent of the Sovereign, and so Princess Margaret is asked to wait for two years. The series suggests that the Queen deceived her sister by appearing to support her wish to marry him and then eventually forbidding it. The film-makers imply that the Princess never forgave her sister, a theme which recurs in later episodes. The essence of this episode is more or less correct, but the sequence of events is somewhat muddled. Since there are also a number of contradictory accounts left by Peter Townsend, Tommy Lascelles, and Princess Margaret to her biographer, it is hard to settle on a true version, since that true version depends on which source is trusted.Lascelles appears at his most severe in this episode, a Satanic and menacing figure. This is an interpretation that might well have resonated with the real life Princess Margaret, not to mention the real life Peter Townsend.There is no doubt that Princess Margaret fell in love with the Group Captain. He was the trusted equerry of the father she adored and a Battle of Britain hero. He was rather a gentle figure. However, as Lascelles made clear to him in no uncertain terms, he had been placed in a position of trust and responsibility. He was a married man with two sons and he was considerably older than the Princess. The real Lascelles said of him: ‘He has Theudas trouble’, a reference to the Acts of the Apostles: ‘For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody.’ Churchill made it clear that the Queen could not sanction the marriage. So Townsend was sent away to Brussels, where he stayed for two years. By the time he returned in 1955, when the British public were agog to know whether the marriage would take place, the path of love had completely run its course. This is the main theme of Episode 10.Minor mistakes: The costume department gave Townsend his CVO, but failed to give the actor playing Lascelles any medals or Orders (by 1953 he was entitled to a GCVO, CMG, MC and various other medals); in Rhodesia, there was a Governor-type figure in a Guards tunic with a GCB, but only bar ribbons for medals. At one point we see the telephone switchboard, which includes Highgrove House. This is the house that the Duchy of Cornwall bought for Prince Charles in 1980, so it would not have been on the switchboard in the 1950s.Series one, episode seven: Scientia Potentia EstIt is 1940 and the Princesses are with their French governess. Princess Elizabeth goes to Eton College to be instructed by the Provost, Sir Henry Marten (not Vice-Provost as stated in the series). This leads to the Queen wishing to be better educated – knowledge is power - and as the story moves on into 1953, one of the themes is that she wants a tutor to help expand her general knowledge. Martin Charteris such a figure called Professor Hodge, but he is a completely fictitious character. The Queen did not seek a tutor to help her and nor would she ever have taken advice over constitutional matters from a figure outside the Palace system.Retirement, or rather non-retirement, is in the air. Churchill is getting old and rather desperate, but refusing to go. The Anthony Eden character is ill in Boston, rather luridly so, taking injections, the implication being that he was almost a drug addict (a theme which gets worse in subsequent episodes). Then Churchill has two strokes. Evidently the Queen is not informed and so the fictitious Hodge urges her to summon Churchill and Lord Salisbury to tick them off like recalcitrant schoolboys. The Crown plays out the two wiggings. Symbolically this is to demonstrate that the Queen is getting on top of her role as an assured constitutional monarch.Tommy Lascelles is also about to retire. In this series, the Queen wants her former Private Secretary, Martin Charteris, to take over and even offers him the job. He and his wife (Gay in real life, but here carelessly called Mary - the name of his daughter), go to look at the Private Secretary’s new home at St James’s Palace and have a tree trimmed outside it. They even say the house will be good for ‘the girls’. (In real life they had the one daughter and two sons). Michael Adeane hears about this, is aggrieved, and complains to Lascelles, who engineers that he does succeed him and not Charteris. Once again Lascelles proves himself more dominant and the Queen’s private wishes are set aside.This is inaccurate. It is traditional that the monarch’s serving Private Secretary stays on for a few months at the beginning of a new reign to help with the transition as did Lascelles until after the Coronation, retiring at the age of sixty-six on the last day of 1953. Michael Adeane and Martin Charteris were working as a team (along with Edward Ford, who is not portrayed in the series). Michael Adeane was always the natural successor, and there was no fuss. He took over.In this episode, the film-makers have put a 1972 story into a 1953 context, presumably so that they could use the Lascelles figure. There was a fuss over Adeane’s successor when he retired. At that time Charteris was the natural successor but Lord Cobbold, a former Governor of the Bank of England, wanted to sweep away the Guards officer Old Etonian types who held sway in the Palace and replace them with more meritocratic types. He tried to reject Charteris in favour of Philip Moore. But Charteris went to see the Queen and asked to take over. She immediately agreed, and he proved to be an inspired Private Secretary, who succeeded perhaps better than any other Private Secretary in presenting her to the world as she really is. He served until 1977.The message that emerges from this episode is that the Queen is conscientious, prepared to do her homework and research, with a knack for discovering the truth when it is kept from her – as, for example, with Churchill’s two strokes (though Lord Salisbury is unlikely to have been willfully withholding this information from her).Lascelles is well played in the series, though his older daughter (now 94) has said that his hair parting is wrong and his moustache too big. By curious misfortune, the actor playing Michael Adeane looks more like the real life Martin Charteris.Series one, episode eight: Pride and JoyThe King used to say of his two daughters: ‘Lilibet is my pride, and Margaret my joy.’ (This is something first published by me in my biography of the Queen Mother and therefore explains the title of this episode). Here there is a complete jumble of the real life facts. The episode starts with a scene where the Queen unveils a statue to King George VI in the Mall. This was in fact unveiled on 6 October 1955. But suddenly plans are being made for the Commonwealth tour of 1953 and 1954, so the story moves back in time.There is particular discussion about Gibraltar as a place that could be dangerous. This was quite true. There were threats from the Spanish and for a visit of less than two days, there were detectives from Scotland Yard operating under cover there for several months. There are some scenes from the Commonwealth tour demonstrating the Queen’s determination to undertake it all, and the strain this put on her. At one point the press see the Queen and Prince Philip emerging from a house after a row. Rightly, they stress the success of the tour.The film-makers decided that while the Queen was away on her Commonwealth tour, the country would be run by Princess Margaret, rather than the Queen Mother, enabling them to use her as a modernizer breaking all the rules and introducing a spontaneous and touchy-feely (quasi Diana, Princess of Wales) approach to being Head of State which, not surprisingly, upsets everyone. She rewrites a speech, suiting her wayward personality and introducing more colour into it, and delivers this at an Ambassadors’ reception (curiously British Ambassadors serving overseas, in Washington and Athens, who appear to have flown in for this occasion). She gets the guests laughing. The point they seek to make is that Princess Margaret thinks she would make a better Queen than her sister, more in tune with the changing times. The Charteris figure gets more and more worried as she chats to miners, gives spontaneous interviews to the media in which she mentions her affection for Townsend and takes a dig at the Queen. She gets ticked off by Churchill who begins to detect a crisis arising, akin to the Abdication. When the Queen comes back, Churchill alerts her to Princess Margaret’s behaviour.None of the above happened and is ultimately tabloid invention. Nor do I subscribe to the idea that there was bitter jealousy between Princess Margaret and the Queen. Princess Margaret always supported her sister.To achieve this, they blur the dates and have the Queen Mother out of the way, buying Barrogill Castle (later renamed the Castle of Mey) in Scotland, something which actually happened a whole year earlier, in 1952. Lascelles (who would by then have retired) tells the Queen Mother what her duties will be, but she tells him she wants to be away. The episode twists history by suggesting the Queen Mother was prepared to shirk all her responsibilities.In reality the Queen Mother was very much in London while the Queen was away, not least looking after Prince Charles and Princess Anne, who stayed with her at Royal Lodge most weekends (when she was not away racing) and at Sandringham for a long Christmas holiday. She was the senior Counsellor of State during the Queen’s absence. Counsellors act in tandem and Princess Margaret usually assisted her. But Churchill had the same kind of audiences with the Queen Mother as he would have done with the Queen, but not so regularly. The film also has Princess Margaret being advised by Martin Charteris, when in real life, he was travelling with the Queen and Prince Philip.As to the Castle of Mey scenes, the Queen Mother did not ride horses after the early 1930s, so to see her cantering along the beaches is somewhat strange. Nor is it likely that the castle’s funny old owner, Captain Imbert-Terry, would not have recognised her. While she stays with the Vyners, she addresses the issues of her early widowhood. As this is meant to be late 1953, and not 1952, this does not convince – even with dramatic licence.Minor mistakes: At a fitting they dress Prince Philip in the naval uniform which he wore but once – at the Coronation, an outdated uniform with epaulettes; later, he wears a Garter riband and bar medals, which is incorrect. The Caribbean Governor in white is wearing what might be a curious interpretation of a military GBE riband along with a huge GCMG star. When Princess Margaret gives her speech, the guests are wearing Orders, but she is not.Series one, episode nine: AssassinsIn London in 1954 Jean Wallop, a private person still very much alive, arrives in a restaurant to dine with Lord Porchester (later 7th Earl of Carnarvon). He proposes to her. She accepts on one condition – that he does not still hold a torch for ‘her’ – i.e. the Queen. I have it on impeccable authority that the future Lady Carnarvon did not even know that he knew the Queen when she met him. The outcome of this scene is that he tells her that for the Queen there was only ever Prince Philip, and she (his bride to be) is the only one for him. The Porchesters were married in January 1956.The Crown suggests that Porchester was the man many wanted the Queen to marry, and they hint that she would have been happier with him than with Prince Philip. For the record, the Queen Mother originally wanted Princess Elizabeth to marry a Grenadier Guards officer. The late Duke of Grafton springs to mind. But from very early on, she set her heart on the good looking Prince Philip. Soon after he returned from war, they were engaged. The Queen Mother told Sir Arthur Penn: ‘Won’t the Grenadier Guards be disappointed?’ They were and at first refused to have Prince Philip as their Colonel.The episode depicts Porchester ringing the Queen late at night, with a certain number of double entendres, his wife-to-be coming through from the bathroom. The Queen’s love of racing is emphasized as is Prince Philip’s boredom with it. This theme is rather dropped as the episode goes on, though in one scene, the Queen and Prince Philip watch a mare being covered, with Lord Porchester observing from afar and with some predictably cheap lines. Afterwards Prince Philip jumps out of the Land Rover in a rage. This is followed by a scene back home with a declaration of love by the Queen for Prince Philip.Lord Carnarvon was a close adviser to the Queen as her racing manager and she often stayed with him and his wife to visit studs in the Berkshire area. Both she and Prince Philip flew down from Balmoral to attend his funeral in 2001.The Graham Sutherland story is well told. Sutherland was commissioned to paint Churchill’s portrait to be presented to him in Westminster Hall for his 80th birthday on 30 November 1954. Peter Morgan is on firm ground here as it is within the political domain. Intermingled with this is the theme that Churchill should stand down. There is a fictional scene where Eden visits Churchill at Chartwell and bids him to give way in a histrionic, hysterical way – presaging the recurring theme that he was some kind of junkie. As to the portrait itself, it was revealed after her death in 1977 that Lady Churchill had destroyed it. In 1957 she described Churchill’s reaction to the painting in a letter to Lord Beaverbrook: ‘it wounded him deeply that this brilliant … painter with whom he had made friends while sitting for him should see him as a gross & cruel monster.’There is a partly fictitious version of the speech he gave in Westminster Hall in which he teases the audience that he is about to retire and that his successor, Anthony Eden, is to hand. It appears that he then promptly resigns and with the brutality of the political system, as he leaves the Palace, Eden’s car draws up. The Queen’s speech at Churchill’s farewell dinner was taken from a private letter from the Queen to Churchill after his resignation and not delivered as such on the night. As we listen to it, we see another scene – Lady Churchill presiding over the burning of the Sutherland portrait.In reality Churchill did not resign immediately after his 80th birthday in November 1954. He hung on in office until April 1955.Series one, episode ten: GlorianaThe episode reprises the events of December 1936. Edward VIII agrees to see his brother, the Duke of York, but not the Duchess (there is no evidence for that). Then the new King informs his daughters that their uncle has put love before duty. He tells them never to let each other down thus introducing the theme that there could be tension between them later on.A Royal Standard is hoisted over Balmoral. It is Princess Margaret’s 25th birthday (21 August 1955) and she declares she still feels the same way about Group Captain Townsend. It seems possible that she can now marry him. But the Queen discusses the Royal Marriages Act with Michael Adeane. He invokes a different version of the situation. He mentions that both Houses of Parliament need to approve and the need to wait for 12 months. Still under the illusion that she is free to marry, Princess Margaret wants to announce it.Another scene shows Prince Philip teaching Prince Charles to fish so that we realise that he is quite tough on the boy. The Queen Mother voices the opinion that Prince Philip is taking it out on Charles due to the frustrations of his life. The Crown likes to think that the Queen Mother is very thick with Lascelles, in his retirement. She relied on him a bit after the King’s death but Lascelles took a dim view of her philosophy of life, considering it was best summed up in the hymn: ‘the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate’. But it gives them the idea that Prince Philip was sent by the Queen to open the Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia in November 1956 to get him out of the way, to get him away from bullying his son and in the hope, as expressed clearly in this episode, that he would come back ‘changed’. But this all happens in August 1955 and he did not undertake the voyage until October 1956.The second and final round in the Princess Margaret – Peter Townsend drama is played out. We see headlines speculating as to whether or not she is going to marry the Group Captain.Apparently Prince Philip is somewhat in league with Princess Margaret over the marriage question. Townsend returns and they run together in a passionate embrace. Then come the problems, the involvement of the Attorney-General, the threat that Lord Salisbury will resign if the marriage takes place, the Queen saying she will support her in any way she can, but then that she would be deprived of money and titles, and have to live abroad for several years as Mrs Peter Townsend. Princess Margaret claims the country is on her side. The invented words of their father about mutual support are repeated by the Queen.Then it all gets worse, with the Cabinet advising against the marriage, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Bishops reminding the Queen that she is Defender of the Faith and of the oath made at the Coronation, and finally the Queen seeking advice from the Duke of Windsor in France. He tells her ‘You must protect the kingdom’. And so, in this episode, the Queen’s line is that Princess Margaret cannot marry Townsend and remain part of the family.In reality, Eden did advise the Queen at Balmoral, but there was no involvement from the Archbishop, and the Duke of Windsor was in no position to pontificate about the role as sister and Queen, and duty to the realm.The film-makers maintain that Princess Margaret broke off from Townsend because she had been forbidden to marry him. Furthermore, she tells him she will never marry anyone else. And then Townsend makes a public statement, in fact reading much of the written statement that in reality Princess Margaret issued to the press. He then returns to Brussels.In truth, the decision was a mutual one between Princess Margaret and the Group Captain, largely based on the fact that Lascelles’s separation plan had worked and the love between them had died.None of the characters are happy at the end of this episode. Princess Margaret is seen depressed at parties, and Peter Townsend sitting forlornly alone in his apartment in Brussels. Prince Philip is angry at being sent away on the long tour.The situation with Nasser in Egypt is flagged up during this episode, meetings with Eden, more pills being taken and in the end, Anthony Eden slumped in front of burning cine-film of Nasser, having just stuck a needle full of drugs into his arm – followed by an image of the Queen posing in tiara and evening dress, next to the Crown Jewels which have been brought to the Palace for effect. She is shown as an assured and confident young monarch while the ever-frustrated Prince Philip drives off down the Mall in his open care, all alone, looking distinctly fed up.I should be grateful that it is Cecil Beaton who gets the last word in both this series and Series two, extolling the virtues of monarchy with Shakespearean lines. Nevertheless Claire Foy’s Queen looks ominously sad.

在看这部剧的时候正直美国大选开票，川普在美帝人民的震惊、咒骂、绝望中成功登顶白宫宝座。

我院的一位教授说:“We are witnessing the history”。

是啊，我们正在见证历史，2016年注定会是不平凡的一年，美剧《我们爱撕逼》已经落幕，韩剧《我和我的闺蜜》还在上演。

当我阅读历史的时候，总会感到自身的渺小。

当时间回到二战刚刚结束的20世纪40年代后期，你会发现这是一段波云诡谲的传奇岁月，纵使是高贵优雅的英国王室也不可阻挡时代的大潮。

英国王室不像中国古代的皇室权力滔天，在君主立宪制的制度下，英国王室受到了来自议会、教会、人民的各种约束。

王室不是为所欲为的代名词，而是荣誉、高贵和纯洁的象征，他们承载着国民的希望与幻想，他们必须完美无瑕。

但他们也是人，也有人性，这一顶王冠更像一把镣铐禁锢着他们，这就是所谓的“欲戴王冠，必承其重”吧！

就像伊丽莎白的祖母给她的信中所说的：最亲爱的莉莉贝特：我知道你深爱着你的父亲，我的孩子，我也知道你和我一样，对他突然地逝去悲痛不已，但是你现在必须将这些情绪暂时放下，因为你的使命（for duty calls），丧父之痛，刻骨铭心，你的人民需要你的坚强和领导，我亲眼目睹了三代伟大的君王，因不能划清私人牵绊和使命的界限而溃败，你一定不能重蹈覆辙，在你悼念你父亲的同时，你也要悼念另一个人，伊丽莎白·蒙巴顿，因为她已经被另一个人所代替，伊丽莎白女王，这两个伊丽莎白会经常起冲突，事实是，王权必须胜利，必须永远胜利。

（The Crown must win,must always win.）

本剧的开场是乔治六世为伊丽莎白公主的未婚夫菲利普王子授勋仪式。

菲利普王子是希腊国王乔治一世的孙子，也是希腊的王储之一，由于伊丽莎白公主是英国王室的准继承人，为了确保她未来继承王位后不会再继任另一个国家，所以菲利普王子必须放弃希腊王位继承权才能与伊丽莎白公主结婚，但在菲利普王子这个头衔之前他没有其他头衔，只是一名海军上尉，于是乔治六世册封他为爱丁堡公爵，以便他能迎娶伊丽莎白公主。

这桩婚事除了这个波折之外也并非一帆风顺，比如菲利普不忠的流言，以及伊丽莎白祖母和父母对菲利普四个姐姐都是德国籍王妃的猜忌。

1947年11月20日，菲利普与其表妹伊丽莎白结婚，两人都是“欧洲的祖母”维多利亚女王的玄孙。

在伊丽莎白继承王位后，他的头衔并不是女王的Husband而是：菲利普亲王殿下，爱丁堡公爵，梅里奥尼斯伯爵，格林威治男爵，最高贵嘉德勋章的皇家骑士，最古老和最高贵蓟花勋章骑士，大英帝国勋章的高贵主人和首席骑士，功绩勋章成员，澳大利亚勋章伴随，女王服务勋章额外伴随，天堂鸟勋章的皇家首领，加拿大武装力量奖章，女王陛下最尊敬的枢密院大臣，女王的加拿大枢密院大臣，女王陛下的私人侍从武官。

很绕对不对。

第二集中公主玛格丽特和国王合唱的那首歌叫Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered，出自1940年的音乐剧《好友乔伊》（Pal Joy），全文歌词是：I'm wild again, beguiled againA simpering, whimpering child againBewitched, bothered and bewildered am IHmm...Could not sleep, would not sleep'Til love came and told me I should not sleepBothered and bewildered am ILost my heart, so what of it?He was cold, I agree,He can laugh and I love itAlthough the laugh's on me.I'll sing to him, each spring to himAnd long for the day whenI'll cling to him, the warBewitched, bothered so bewildered am I

丘吉尔的悼念词写得太棒了，贴出来分享一下：When the death of the king was announced to us yesterday morning,there struck a deep and somber note in our lives,which resounded far and wide,stilled the clatter and traffic of 20th century life,and made countless millions of human beings around the world pause and look around them.The King was greatly loved by all his peoples.The greatest shocks ever felt by this isl and fell upon us in his feign.Never,in our long history ,were we exposed to greater perils of invasion and destruction.The late King,who assumed the heavy burden of the Crown when he succeeded his brother,lived through every minute of struggle with a heart that never quavered and a spirit undaunted.In the end,death came as a friend.And after a happy day of sunshine and sport,and after a goodnight to those who loved him best,he fell asleep,as every man or woman who strives to fear God and nothing else in the world may hope to do.Now,I must leave the treasures of the past and turn to the future.Famous have been the reigns of our queens.Some of the greatest periods in our history have unfolded under their scepters.Queen Elizabeth II,like her namesake,Queen Elizabeth I,did not pass her childhood in any certain expectation of the Crown.This new Elizabethan age comes at a time when mankind stands uncertainly poised on the edge of catastrophe.I,whose youth was passed in the august,unchallenged and tranquil glories of the Victoria era,may well feel the thrill in invoking once more,the prayer and the anthem,God Save the Queen.另外扮演丘吉尔的是美国演员约翰·利特高（John Lithgow），他还演了《星际穿越》中马修·麦康纳的岳父关于乔治六世口吃的故事大家可以参考：国王的演讲

关于爱德华八世爱美人不爱江山的故事大家可以参考：W.E.关于玛格丽特公主：1960年5月6日，玛格丽特在西敏寺大教堂与一位摄影师－安东尼·阿姆斯壮-琼斯成婚。

据说，在玛格丽特接受了阿姆斯壮-琼斯求婚的前一日，彼得·汤森对她说：打算娶一位比利时籍女子。

本剧的配乐是鲁伯特·格雷格森·威廉斯（Rupert Gregson-Williams），原声带在这：The Crown: Season Oneto be continued...

美国人投资拍的英剧，本来会有所怀疑其成色。

但放映过后，即使是“网剧”，也丝毫不亚于BBC的作品，所有豆瓣会有9分以上的高分，拿开有色眼镜的群众眼睛才是雪亮的。

花了一周的空余时间撸完全季，看了一下时间，已是00:09。

感叹一下，第二天早上再写剧评吧。

第一季的时间节点放在二战前后，由于是纪实类的电视剧，情节大多尊重史实。

所以给我们这些观众一个温习英国史的机会。

读大学的时候深感高中时历史课太短，一节课能讲完中国一个朝代，一节课也能谈完一场世界大战，朝代、战争前后的种种都被老师一句带过，让我这位历史迷好不过瘾。

但几年高等教育时间匆匆而过，工作之后，离开图书馆那浩于烟海的历史图书，才觉得读书的可贵。

但选择容易上手的历史书籍也很重要，这部电视剧也很容易上手，边看边查阅百度百科，渐渐能看出门道。

本剧围绕女王身边的人，亲属，近臣以及政府高官，线索千丝万缕，每一集也能保持主题不散，实在难得。

女王在登基过程中遇到的种种故事或危机，比如父亲的去世，比如与丘吉尔的相处，比如不省心的妹妹的爱情故事，比如渐行渐远的夫妻感情，还有控制欲极强的内侍。

年代离我们现今相去甚远，但依然会有我们熟悉的历史剧情，爱江山不爱美人的温莎公爵退位，丘吉尔重新上台，国王去世，女王登基。

殖民地慢慢瓦解，雾霾灾情严重，国内物资短缺，面对着内忧外患，女王只能通过自己的巡游给子民们生活的信心。

虽然丘吉尔一直活在二战的过去美梦里，虽然年事已高，但依然是年轻女王的好帮手。

每天向女王汇报国情动向，对女王关心的事情给予建议，估计丘吉尔的辞职女王会怀念。

相比之下前任艾德里以及后任艾登就弱很多，都整天想着丘吉尔下台，但下台之后碰到了苏黎世运河危机就又辞职了，所以丘吉尔的自傲是值得尊重的，所以他被评选为二十世纪英国最伟大的人物。

英剧的演员都不是很熟，但演技完全在线。

虽然有些与实际的人物并不形似，比如丘吉尔的身高，但依然很有力的为你展现历史人物的风貌。

观影过程中，你不会吐槽，你不能走神，你只会沉浸在当时的英伦故事里不能自拔。

期待下一季。

美国总统大选尘埃落定，Donald Trump赢得了这场权力的游戏，坐上了总统宝座。

消息一出，美帝人民立即陷入了“冰火两重天”。

Trump的支美帝人民在请求英国女王伊丽莎白二世，执政美国“史上第一个女总统”的梦想破灭，那就请英国女王执政喽这部剧就是一部关于伊丽莎白二世的“纪录片”。

结果，我无法自拔，一口气看完了10集。

一. 良好的制作Netflix在这部剧上可谓下了血本：光第一季就花了1亿多美金，平均到每一集，手笔已经超过《权力的游戏》。

二.演技不必多说演员阵容好到爆炸Clair Foy：她在剧中扮演年轻的伊丽莎白二世,看这英伦范的红唇第十一任《神秘博士》Matt Smith:剧中扮演伊丽莎白二世的丈夫，菲利普亲王Jared Harries:扮演伊丽莎白的父亲，乔治六世John Lithgow丘吉尔的大智慧完全被表现出来历史的细节都被重新摆出来我们看到的每一幕都是历史三. 独到选材伊丽莎白这个看起来和蔼的小老太太真的就坐的这么安稳？

她难道就没有经过一些世事？

她真的就如同电视里的得体？

座位待机时间最长的女王她经历的比我们想象的多的多她经常穿着不同颜色的得体的套装经常没事就给人们颁发奖章偶尔人们会想起她的大名鼎鼎的儿媳戴安娜王妃所以我们就根本不了解这个小老太太欲戴王冠必承其重这句话总在伊丽莎白上再合适不过王冠值得一看

海报上面的那个女孩，黑白阴影之间，眉目轮廓清淡而凛冽，垂目低视。

这部不像美剧的美剧《女王》，乍一看，似乎是BBC出品，叙事节奏平缓，剧本扎实有力，带有一股浓浓的英伦味道。

虽然两部剧之间没有关系，但是，在第一眼，我即想起了那部《无人生还》。

也许是英国的风格太凛冽，但凡有一点相似，便会唤醒脑海中的回忆。

这部剧的故事从菲利普亲王迎娶伊丽莎白女王开始。

伊丽莎白二世，在中国，我们习惯调侃她的在位时间。

那位在二零一二年伦敦奥运会上从飞机上一“跳”而下，震惊了所有年轻人的高龄女王陛下。

她的父亲，乔治六世，同样是一位有名的人物，以口吃闻名。

二零一二年《国王的演讲》以大势之姿横扫奥斯卡，讲的便是这位国王的故事。

故事的幕布便是从这位国王身上拉开。

他病了。

他咳嗽、咳出了血沫子。

紧接着，他被诊断出肿瘤。

《王冠》第一季的叙事，主线其实不是女王与亲王的婚姻，而是这位国王的病。

也恰恰是这位国王的病，暗示了接下来，女王的登基。

在平时的新闻中，我们经常看到有媒体赞颂菲利普亲王与女王的爱情。

说，真正爱一个人，是为她放弃继承权，甘心守候在她身后。

那样的深情。

我们习惯了这样的符号。

仿佛这样的深情，是与身俱来的。

但是，在《王冠》中，在女王未登基之前，这位深知自己不久于人世的国王与菲利普的一番谈话，证明了菲利普同样是一个普通的男人。

他依然困惑，依然有自己的执着。

他也不甘愿放弃自己的前途与职责。

但是，他娶的人是女王。

相比起大部分人称颂的说，第一集最后乔治六世对菲利普说的话，是父亲对女儿的爱。

或许是我心太冷硬。

那就像是我们古代的王朝，父亲在死之前为儿子留下的一些贤臣。

乔治六世希望用自己最后的力量，帮下一任女王，解决后顾之忧。

比起后来女王的种种传奇，在未登基之前，她其实就像一个普通的女人，只不过，有着皇家的规范礼仪教养。

但是，在教堂里宣誓时，也会紧张得说不出话；在自己的爱情里面，也会不顾周围人的反对，执着地对自己的丈夫说“服从你。

”这个时候的女王，还未展露她的风范。

与其说，第一集是女王登基前的铺垫，不如说，是给乔治六世弹奏的欢送曲。

这样一位不敢在众人面前讲话的国王，“口吃”的国王，他或许是史上最有损礼仪的国王，但是，他一生为了国家而奉献自己。

得知自己肿瘤，即将不久于人世，他几乎连为自己伤心的时间都没有，化妆、掩盖自己的病容，和再度上任的丘吉尔会面。

他在努力维持一个作为国王的尊严。

直到那个圣诞夜晚，他知道了自己的肿瘤，当地的民众们遵从礼仪风俗，举着灯来为国王陛下祷告。

他终于红了眼眶。

大概，那是他一直拼命做好一个国王的铠甲之下，死亡来临之际，破冰而出的疲倦，与对这个国家的眷恋。

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剧里出现的帝国王冠真身我没见过，但属于伊丽莎白二世的王冠，我见过另一顶。

前年夏天跑去爱丁堡边缘艺术节，顺便观光了城堡，就见到了。

人们排长队进一个旋转上升的小塔楼，楼上放的就是象征苏格兰君主权的宝剑，权杖，和王冠，还有一块看似平凡无奇的加冕石，每件各还能说出几桩野史。

几百年了，为了盘这么几件东西，英格兰和苏格兰人民大战不下三百回合。

那个操着销魂的苏格兰口音，穿着苏格兰短裙的男导游也神秘莫测：『现在的英女王同是英格兰和苏格兰的女王，所以这顶王冠，暂时是属于英国皇室的。

不过等到下一任君主上位，王冠可要还给苏格兰喽！

』同行的朋友看这东西金光闪闪，简直什么贵镶什么，就酸酸地说：『戴上一时爽，不过脖子也要断了吧？

』爽，都在心里呀！

我当时这么想着。

有人造过一个词，叫『技术投胎』，指他人生下来就在一般人花多少力气也到不了的起点。

举个🌰，就好比你很享受谈恋爱时看看电影拉拉手，暂称穷光蛋式的浪漫。

突然有一天女朋友告诉你，现在搞对象，流行先给女方浪掷千金，豪宅起送，比如，她就收到过这么N套......这起点太不一样了，值得生气。

说实话，我们这种平凡人，光想着自己没受到的好处了，要怎么理解技术投胎后的烦恼。

《The Crown》里出现的哪一个人不是技术投胎的受益者。

很多人说欲戴王冠必承其重。

知道重，但具体有多重？

太抽象了。

那就换一个角度讲讲吧：技术投胎者要吃的苦，你也没吃到呀！

张女士的那句话反过来怎么说？

你穿不上的华袍也沾不上虱。

我试着厘清一下这部女王养成记里的主要人物的关系。

如果这里史实虚构傻傻分不清楚，请不要怪我，毕竟我看的还是一部讲皇室的肥皂剧。

来自宇宙时尚大刊Vogue伊丽莎白二世倒霉的爸爸，老国王乔治六世，作为次子，本来根本就摊不上当国王的使命。

他那位性格软弱的哥哥，伊丽莎白二世的伯父，曾经的爱德华八世，后来的温莎公爵，在二战时面对德国人性格十分软弱，想了一个逃进温柔乡的办法让皇室蒙羞，讨离异、且前夫在世的美国交际花当老婆，在这件事上开了个头。

于是这位《国王的演讲》里写的乔治六世，只能结结巴巴上位，又几乎没过上什么好日子，就罹病去世了。

他母亲玛丽王太后说，我的一个儿子是被另一个儿子害死的。

温莎公爵和妻子演的是一场被贬谪到法国，有家回不了的苦命鸳鸯戏。

皇室说起『那个女人』，也是一副咬牙切齿的样子。

为了维持奢靡的生活，两人表面上与皇室维持友好关系，想尽办法领津贴，私下则骂骂咧咧。

真爱说了那么多遍，不是为了撒狗粮，而是为了说服自己，没有做错选择。

公爵心里也不是不想当王。

这个念想变成了法国家中的阁楼，里面装满了他短暂身为『爱德华八世』时的纪念品，变成了他时常吹响的苏格兰风笛。

这个念想，变成了他与庶人同看伊丽莎白二世加冕典礼电视直播时的刻薄吐槽。

侄女真正戴上王冠的时刻，直播中断了。

别人问他这个『圈内人』，为什么？

他说，『因为此刻，她就是神。

』

也来自Vogue，这个角选得跟原型好，像，啊谁要当这个没有实权，又一辈子被约束的神啊？

但这种事，没的选。

『神』身边的人，也没的选。

女王小时候帮助过父亲在加冕典礼前演习向教会、议会、人民宣誓。

轮到她自己的时候，她问能不能借帝国王冠来练习。

『借？

这顶王冠不是你的，又是谁的呢？

』老国王得知自己重病后主要做了两件事，一件是安排女儿访问邦国，另一件就是给女婿安排工作。

周围的侍从都虚情假意，只有老国王知道自己时不久矣，特意挑了一个大雾天，带着大家都不看好的女婿去猎鸭子。

史传这位女婿，菲利普亲王，是出了名的喜欢裸睡，剧拍得很仔细，出现了好几个早晨他光屁股被叫醒的场面。

这次是老国王亲自出马。

在湖上，老国王一句点破：亲王这个职称，才不是你的工作呢。

『She, is the job』。

爱她，保护她，没有比这更伟大的爱国了。

看到这里有些泪目。

女王的丈夫，就这样变成了一个被闲置的男人。

他的孩子不能继承他的名字，要姓温莎，他不能先行于他的妻子，他必须在加冕典礼上向自己的妻子下跪，余生必须留守白金汉宫，他也不能继续自己的海军事业。

为了培养点爱好，他跟着玛格丽特公主的姘头学开飞机，几乎提前感受中年危机女王的妹妹，玛格丽特公主在剧中的性格十分飒爽，爸爸在世时的一句『Lilibet is my pride, but Margaret is my joy』让她恃宠若娇，但并不令人讨厌。

22岁的玛格丽特爱上爸爸身边比她年长16岁的侍从，又是离异，前妻在世，人民拥护的姻缘却被英国教会否定。

姐姐作为皇室家长不能支持她的自由婚姻，也是一种痛苦。

真美啊这个set，一身衣服也喜欢还有一条线没有说，丘吉尔，倔强的人民领袖战后服老的一段，人物刻画得特别好，不展开讲了。

提示大家注意他和女王口音的神还原，还有很多场景服装的设置，都是这部剧讲究的地方。

至于不仅有王冠还有很多顶帽子的女王本人，还在超长待机呢，也是真敢拍。

提供一个小道消息：《王冠》一共会出五季，每季跨度十年。

掐指一算也能拍到现在了。

很多人还提到，这部剧是靠钱砸出来的。

就凭能让平凡人看到极尽完美中的身不由己，该砸。

PhilsumyNetflix的新剧王冠刚刚上线（11.4），我用了不到两天就追完了10集。

如果是别的电视剧，我或许会打个“剧透”提示；可是这部剧好像打不打都无所谓，毕竟"历史"已经书写完毕，我们欣赏的只是“故事”。

历史剧的好处之一就是它的连续性，以及背景的真实性，毕竟，“历史”。

就像莎士比亚的经典四部曲一样：理查二世，亨利四世，亨利五世上、下；王冠也有前传，如果看过《国王的演讲》的各位，根本就不需要做什么多余的背景介绍：为了美人放弃天下的爱德华八世；为了责任接任王位乔治六世；还有伊丽莎白·鲍斯-莱昂，乔治六世的王后，伊丽莎白二世之母，以及爱德华夫妇口中的“Scottich cook”“苏格兰厨子”；当然还有两位主角，或者说，主角与准主角，女王夫妇。

如此的人物放在一起所展现的剧情张力是巨大的，让人身临其境，感受他们之间的故事。

（当然这部剧还没有续集，因为。。。

女王还在“超长待机”。

）如果说“历史”更着重于光辉的、伟大的一面，那么"故事"则更喜欢聚焦于那些光明背后的阴影、脆弱。

比如说王夫：菲利普亲王，爱丁堡公爵。

很多人喜欢他的高大帅气，与女王的完美爱情。

这部剧里则更多聚焦与他的“脆弱”。

很多人知道他是希腊王子，可很多人都没注意到希腊是个“共和国”。

他的父亲，安德鲁王子（安德烈阿斯王子）是希腊国王乔治一世的第四子，很显然，继承顺位靠后。

1922年，希腊在与土耳其的战争遭遇惨败，安德鲁王子与政府大臣、军队指挥被关入大牢，等待枪决，最后英国派军舰前去协商，安德鲁一家才得以获释，而当时1岁的菲利普亲王是躲在橘子箱里，离开了他的“故土”。

安德鲁亲王对菲利普亲王也不怎么关心，喜欢花天酒地。

菲利普亲王更多的时候是与舅舅蒙巴顿勋爵在一起，当然，最后，他也把自己的姓氏改成了”蒙巴顿“所以当故事进行到公主大婚前夕，他放弃希腊国籍与王位继承权，改姓“蒙巴顿”，英王乔治六世赐予他那一连串头衔的时候，剧中的表现出他的轻松以及他感觉仪式的繁复，忙于应付。

我想现实中的菲利普亲王放弃的很轻松，因为他的那些希腊头衔就真的只是“头衔”而已。

他是一个没有家，没有故土的“孤儿”。

女王陛下：在故事开始的时候，女王其实很小女人，与在皇家海军服役的丈夫在一起，拿着摄影机拍着自己的丈夫，带着“迷妹"的小眼神，我想女王与其他"迷妹"不同的是，她真的与"男神"在一起了。

在乔治六世去世的时候，在丈夫的要求下，她正在给她的父亲写信，请求与丈夫一起回到马耳他，殊不知早已天人永隔。

到了决定女王尊名的时候，也正是预告片里所展现：“我的名字就是“伊丽莎白”，我们就别在这搞得过于繁复了”私人秘书站起身，对她说道：“女王万岁”从此，她不再是丈夫的迷妹，不再是众人宠爱的公主，而是女王陛下。

就像我之前提到的，这部剧展现的是历史之外的“脆弱”，也正是人的部分。

理论上大权在握，其实什么也做不了，总想发表意见，然后又不能发表。

“一事无成是最难的事”作为英国国教会的领袖，请大家不要忘记是亨利八世为了离婚而创建的，不仅不能用这个头衔去要求别人，反而经常被人限制。

连“爱情”都无法做主。

爱德华八世为了“爱情”放弃了王位，玛格丽特公主一心想跟父亲的秘书在一起，最后。。。

女王即位之前，跟工作人员说，我能不能把王冠借走，回家练练，工作人员一脸懵逼，“这本来就是您的”。

女王把5磅的王冠戴在头上，看着镜子中的父亲，那个准备加冕礼的父亲，两个人就这样看着彼此。

我认为一个非常重要的配角就是先王爱德华八世，温莎公爵。

公爵为了“爱情”放弃王位的故事，已经众人皆知。

这部剧里的公爵经常出现，回到伦敦，回到痛恨他的家庭身边，要求妻子的尊号，要求妻子能够与自己一起参加典礼，要钱；而我们的先王的要求总是被拒绝，然后他曾经的仆人们开始跟他提条件，先王勃然大怒，说你们这些奴仆敢跟我蹬鼻子上脸。。。

然后想想自己的处境，只好作罢，说，好吧，由我去劝女王，那个钱，你们赶紧汇给我。

剧中的公爵，有一只风笛，公爵夫人还特意向记者介绍，公爵只在思乡时吹奏。

终于，到了女王的加冕礼，公爵义务给身在法国的众人解说。

众人说，这典礼把女王变成了神，你是怎么会放弃成神的机会呢？

公爵答道，我拥有了最伟大的东西“爱情”。

公爵表面上对王位不屑一顾，对爱情崇拜至上。

可公爵真如他所说的那么伟大吗？

他真的把爱情放在祖国，家庭，王位之前吗？

我想公爵肯定也会后悔，也会流泪，也会思乡，因为他跟我们一样，也只是个凡人。

也正如我最喜欢的镜头之一，公爵一个人，在法国，在别墅的外面，吹奏着风笛，泪流满面。

剧中的王族待着无限的光环，可其实啊，他们也只是凡人罢了。

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女王形象被搬上银幕多次，这次有点儿不一样。

网飞投资1.4亿英镑的大制作《王冠》，故事丰富饱满，画质清晰感人，评分居高不下。

那些历史上真实的场景，那些教课书里的枯燥人名，一下子活过来，在眼前铺满，好像一伸手就能抓住，一伸脚就能走进。

这剧未有热血沸腾，也无刀光剑影，却可以叫人耐下心，品咂其中滋味。

换个俗气的抒情点的剧名，它还可以叫“女王的爱与哀愁”。

女王不再只是高不可攀的掌权者，她还是有血有肉的女人。

戴上皇冠的那一刻。

昔日养尊处优的公主，转眼成为政事缠身的一国之君。

在外，她沉静内敛，她面带微笑，她挥手致意，她君临天下。

回家，她有小情绪，有大烦恼，有各种纠结和不如意。

但她知道，既要维护女王的形象，还得过好自己的日子。

尽管王权时时给她添堵，但她却不能甩手不管。

这是一个宿命般的故事，也像一个宿命般的结局。

一王冠易带，其重难承。

伊丽莎白二世加冕礼当天所戴的王冠，总重2.2公斤，那一顶帽子置于头顶，闪闪发光艳羡世人，却也真的可以压到头疼：那重量一方面来自于王冠的材质，一方面来自于身上所担的责任。

此前对女王的总体印象，基本是“没有实权的君主，过优裕的生活，享民众的爱戴，忙时接见外国元首，出席各种庆典，闲来种花养草、含饴弄孙，有时要对付八卦小报，还要捂住家庭的丑闻。

”看完全剧才觉得，活在世上，谁都不易，自带神圣光环的女王亦无例外。

普通人尚有大哭大笑的权利，女王不行；普通人还有逛街购物的乐趣，女王不行。

她像一趟被预设了程序的列车，只能按照既定的轨道前行。

爱默生说，要么享有权力，要么享受乐趣。

做女王，天生便被剥夺了乐趣，她所享有的，亦不过虚化的权力。

她要处理好与政府的关系，还要不断地和丈夫妥协，出访时则代表大英帝国的形象，在家时还得尽家庭的责任。

她是母仪天下的一国之君，她还是妻子、母亲、女儿、姐姐，君主的权力，她所享不多，普通人的烦恼，她一样没少。

伊丽莎白二世超长待机的一辈子，就是做平衡的功夫：在女王与女人间，在传统和现代间，在人民和政客间，在亲情和责任间。

若让她选择，伊丽莎白二世最想做的，大概是相夫教子的农场主妇，或英国驻马耳他的军官夫人。

她竟然没有可能安排自己的人生——这是独属于女王的悲哀。

二女王非一日炼成。

最叫我讶异的，是女王的一身本领。

她可以驾车飞奔，她可以骑马驰骋，她熟读英国宪法，又精通于穿衣戴帽的日常妆扮。

她还是赌马高手，有经济头脑，通过赛马成功赚取过不少散碎银子。

身为温莎王室的长公主，第一顺位继承人，自小被父亲乔治六世严格要求，同样是女儿，她承受的是未来女王的训练，妹妹玛格丽特则被视为父亲的小甜心。

她稳重、老练、循规蹈矩，玛格丽特放纵、独立、个性十足。

二战爆发时，女王还是个13岁的少女。

她和妹妹玛格丽特奔赴苏格兰巴尔莫勒尔海滩避难。

有人建议两位公主应去加拿大避难，母亲伊丽莎白王后坚决反对：孩子们不能在没有我的情况下离开，我不能在没有国王的情况下离开，而国王不能在任何情况下离开。

1940年，14岁的伊丽莎白公主首次发表战时广播演说，鼓励避难中的儿童。

1945年，19岁的伊丽莎白公主说服父亲，加入后方防卫支援部队“国内妇女支援部队”，成为伊丽莎白·温莎名誉少尉，她学会了开车、修车，是王室第一个经过正式训练的汽车修理员。

21岁生日时，她向整个英联邦做广播演说，宣誓将终身为英联邦和帝国人民服务。

初登王位，与丘吉尔召开每周一次的御前会议，发现自己对政治一无所知，经常插不上话，表现不够自信，便请了一位家庭教师，恶补各种知识。

在强势的丘吉尔面前，她需要保持女王的形象和自信。

女王还得有超人的精力和旺盛的体力。

在位60余年，伊丽莎白二世出访海外300多次，主持超过100次国宴，收到过350万封信件，授予了近40万个荣誉头衔和奖项。

她每周要与首相举行一次会晤，讨论国家事务。

所以受民众爱戴，不仅仅因为她是女王，还有她的人格魅力，她的不服输的精神，以及她好学不倦的人生。

三成为女王，孰知是幸运还是不幸。

不羁的丈夫不愿意接受形式大于内容的生活，不愿意降低自己的尊严，与她产生各种摩擦和对抗。

他在外还干下了许多风流韵事。

母亲感觉到女儿长大成人，独挡一面，自己不再被需要，母女之情渐渐疏离。

妹妹恋上了离婚的男人，她同情妹妹，却受制于传统约束做出拆散这一对恋人的决定。

远在法国的伯父也来凑热闹，不停地制造各种麻烦。

剪不断，理还乱。

面对层出不穷的问题，女王也有失控时候。

她大喊大叫，和丈夫吵翻，她质问丈夫敢不敢像她一样发誓“你是我唯一爱的那个人”；妹妹玛格丽特愤恨地咒骂她，讽刺她是没有个性的女人，妒忌父亲给自己的爱更多，女王顿时变成争宠的小女孩，反唇相讥，怒目而向。

冷静下来，她总是能够出于责任和担当，做出冷静的决定，尽管那决定看上去那么冷血，又那么没有人性。

她的痛苦无人可懂。

她可以为帝国形象牺牲家庭，但在必要时，她维护家庭的决心也绝不退让。

她争取为自己的儿女冠夫姓，她为丈夫谋得加冕礼主席的职位以照顾他的体面，她努力维护妹妹追寻真爱的权利。

这部剧NB之处在，它未一味地强调牺牲，凸显伟大，也着意渲染女王作为女人的一面。

她有她的缺点，她有她的个性，她有普通人都有的感情。

这也是让观众能够产生亲近的原因。

四尽管是被虚权的君主，她却不愿只做一个摆设。

她不想要既定安排的秘书，想要换个现代点的年轻人，改变沉闷无趣的传统；面对强势的丘吉尔，她以沉静老练的语气斥其不从国家利益着想，隐瞒了患病的事实；她出国访问行程满满，脸已笑僵也不肯休息，往脸上打松驰针时毫不犹豫；……据说这剧集将拍六季。

只这第一季便已征服众多观众。

不知女王超长待机的一生，究竟还有多少精彩故事可续。

对未来的五季充满期待。

其实说实话，我看完了第一遍，但是我觉得我并没有看懂，所以我决定再看一遍。

因为豆瓣的评价我很好奇这部剧，所以就在网上找了资源。

我把我的观点分点说吧！

1，每个人都得为自己的选择负责。

无论你是高高在上的女王还是普通的老百姓，既然选择了就得负责到底。

每一个人生活在这个世界上都要承担着相应的责任，女王的责任在我们的眼里更加的重大，她要为她的子民负责，她的每一个决定不只是为自己考虑，她要以大局为重。

所以最后还是选择了哪怕让自己的妹妹恨自己也没有赞同妹妹自己选择的婚事，她又何尝不爱自己的妹妹呢？

她又何尝不想成人之美呢？

可是她不能，她有来自于内阁的压力，她有来自于教堂的压力，她是整个宗教信仰的捍卫者，她别无选择。

2，得到也意味着失去。

她得到王位那一刻或许她自己也没有意识到她将失去很多。

首先她失去了原本幸福的家庭，我不是说支离破碎的失去。

原本她和自己的丈夫还有孩子生活的很幸福，原本她的孩子可以跟父亲有姓氏，原本她可以做一个丈夫背后的小女人，可是在她成为女王之后，这些东西她统统都失去了。

她的孩子不能随丈夫姓，因为她的孩子是王室的子孙，将来也要继承她的王位，所以她的孩子只能随她姓。

当她的丈夫说出那句她剥夺了他的梦想，他的人生，他的家庭，现在连他的姓氏也要剥夺。

那一刻我是无比疼惜她丈夫的，可是转念又想，又有什么办法呢？

她还可以有别的选择吗？

她没有！

她有多爱她的丈夫世人都看在眼里，可是她不能有半点任性，她的任何一个决策都关系到她的王国。

她失去了自由的时间，她以后的精力几乎全部用于政务的处理，整部剧我都没有看到她陪伴自己的小孩，全部是她的丈夫在跟孩子嬉戏打闹。

我不由得想问，她的孩子与她亲密吗？

孩子小的时候都不能给予陪伴，长大以后会抱怨她吗？

有得必有失，患难得失全在一念之间。

3，清楚地定位她刚上位时并没有什么实权，首相丘吉尔基本掌握了全部实权，她说不过是一个傀儡皇帝，可是她不甘于自己没有实权。

当她果断的说出，不管你们怎么建议，我才是这个女王，我才是最终的决策者的时候，她开始真正的掌握实权。

女王也非一日练成，她也是一步一步成长的。

当她清楚了知道了自己的定位，“我就是女王，我才是这个国家的主宰”，她才成为真正的女王。

生活中我们很多时候都会不知道自己的定位，不知道自己应该做什么，不应该做什么。

我们没有明确地给自己定位，这样的生活是可怕的，就宛如没有灯塔照亮航海的船，会迷失方向。

无论是生活还是感情我们都要清楚自己的定位，这样我们才会越过越好，越走越远。

4，成功需要合作和对手个人的力量是微小的，但是集体的力量是强大的。

成功少不了身边能人力士的帮忙，只有合作我们才能更加平稳地走向成功。

女王的成功少不了首相丘吉尔的帮忙，丘吉尔的一生都献给了政治，在女王已经可以独当一面的时候选择退出。

如果女王没有和首相合作她无法快速地成长，她也不会获得实权。

即使首相在逼她做出一个个艰难的决定时她痛苦万分，她不想去伤害家人。

可惜忠与孝自古都不能两全，必舍其一才能前行。

同样的她的叔叔对她的王位也造成了很多的影响，即使她的叔叔是恨她的，但是两个关键时候她都听从了她叔叔的建议，她的叔叔是她的对手，同时也是她的最亲密的合作伙伴，每一个艰难的决定她都问了她的叔叔，也可见她叔叔在她心里的地位。

她叔叔也并没有错，只不过是爱江山更爱美人。

总的来说，这部剧真的很不错，很多细节我还是没有看懂，所以我会再看一遍。

好的东西也值得反复。

欲戴王冠，必承其重！