王冠第四季

看到第三集结尾，好生气啊。。

女王自己当年无论如何都要跟个自己喜欢的花花公子结婚，到了自己儿子结婚前，心里明知道自己儿子不喜欢黛安娜，还跟他说你忍一下，像你曾祖母学习，努力磨合一下，总会有爱情的，这样是为了巩固王权？？？？？

我可去你的吧，你自己咋不选个可靠一点的人磨合一下呢，这样你也不用忍受他一天到晚拈花惹草，也不好好养娃。

查尔斯实惨，从小被他老爹送进那个杨永信学校，妈妈为了自己婚姻啥也没说就这么把娃牺牲了，不知道给娃留下了多少心理阴影啊。

从小到大自己想的没人听见，想爱的人不能爱，所有人就跟他说为了duty你忍一下，谁让您是将来的国王呢。

结果现在一辈子做尽荒唐事谁见谁嫌不说，70多了还能当上国王吗，真是憋屈又憋屈的没有意义的一生啊。

这样看爱德华八世知道自己不想忍就及早退位也算是明智了，就把王位让给愿意牺牲愿意忍有责任心的人吧。

作为国王不及格，但至少自己的人生没有被王权吃掉。

而且退出得早，虽然后半辈子流亡海外，不被自己的亲人（和人民）待见，但至少想爱的人可以爱，不想做的事情可以不做。

看完前三集感想：还是自己挣钱吧，靠纳税钱的人活着，就得活给别人看，做个吉祥物，把自己的人生当成圆满的电视剧演给别人看，观众才不在乎你自己怎么想，你喜不喜欢这个剧本。

PS：查尔斯的很多行为我也很生气，比如叫卡米拉去陪黛安娜，不是脑子少根筋就是想让黛安娜知道，看把我们小黛安娜气得，查尔斯不是蠢就是渣。

但查尔斯的很多行为，也跟他的家庭成长环境是不开的，一个从来没有得到过足够的爱和尊敬的人，一个自己的欲望从来没有被满足被看见的孩子，你让他怎么成为一个可靠又正直的大人？

变成了现在这么不靠谱又荒唐的继承人，真的是可以预料啊，感觉他就是当代胤礽。

最可怜我们黛安娜了，结婚的时候还是个孩子，没有人帮她，没有人关心她，大家只关心有了她王室的脸面就好看了，就这么被卷进一泡污水当中，一生就这么被填进去了。

这两集的时间线以马岛战争前后贯穿下来，核心人物便是撒切尔夫人。

第四集 Favourites 最爱1. 撒切尔的宠儿撒切尔最爱的孩子是儿子马克。

剧中的撒切尔对此十分坦诚1951年，撒切尔夫人(1925-2013)与丈夫丹尼斯·撒切尔(1915-2003)结婚，并在1953年诞下一对龙凤胎，马克和卡洛儿。

撒切尔的儿子马克1982年，撒切尔夫人的儿子，马克·撒切尔参见巴黎达喀尔汽车拉力赛(Dakar Rally)，曾在撒哈拉沙漠(Sahara Desert)一度失踪。

达喀尔拉力赛，是一个每年都会举行的专业越野拉力赛，事实上这是一个远离公路的耐力赛，1979年开幕，举办至今。

比赛对车手是否为职业选手并无限制，80%左右的参赛者都为业余选手。

儿子被救后仍自鸣得意2. 福克兰战争（马岛战争）此时，撒切尔已上任三年，通货膨胀达到12%，三百万人失业。

引得女王训斥1982年4月，阿根廷的军政府入侵福克兰群岛(阿根廷称之为马尔维纳斯群岛)。

福克兰群岛阿根廷自1830年代以来便声称拥有福克兰群岛的主权，因而一直与英国发生纠纷。

内阁对发起战争有支持有反对 在入侵发生不久，玛格丽特·撒切尔便指派英国皇家海军重夺群岛，福克兰群岛战争爆发。

光把士兵送过去就要三周1982年6月，英国战胜阿根廷，夺回群岛，重申主权，使英国国内一时间因为撒切尔夫人而重燃爱国热诚，而她的声望亦由谷底反弹。

Godspeed!这里还展现了女王和首相的从政治立场而影响到的个人哲学，前者无为而治，后者霹雳手段。

撒切尔表示不采取外交途径3. 女王的宠儿菲利普的宠儿是安妮，而女王对四个孩子进行了一一面谈，她的最爱是二子安德鲁。

安德鲁与一少女女王的幺子爱德华，竟然也被送去了菲利普和查尔斯去的那个学校，戈登斯托恩(Gordonstoun)，显然他在这所学校比他哥哥更能应对。

爱德华王子此时一年拿着2万英镑的王室津贴安妮此时已与马克·菲利浦斯1973年结婚，并育有一子一女。

此段婚姻并不顺利，公主和Sergeant Cross发生私情。

剧中的安妮对戴安娜有些小不满二儿子安德鲁此时身在海军，和母亲吃饭时还讲了未成年少女被“艺术”的故事。

女王和安德鲁吃午饭不得不佩服编剧皮特·摩根(Peter Mogan)，很多事情毕竟无法直接挑明，单靠对话和台词就能暗含和映射很多信息。

对美国亿万富豪爱泼斯坦(Jeffrey Epstein)的调查，也让其生前好友安德鲁王陷入X侵丑闻。

19年11月，安德鲁王子宣布将不再履行王室公务。

爱泼斯坦被指控X侵未满18岁的女性，19年8月，在曼哈顿监狱中“自杀”身亡。

据报，爱泼斯坦与上流社会的权贵及富豪交往甚密，密友名单包括美国总统特朗普、前总统克林顿夫妇以及英国王子安德鲁。

可参考纪录片：《杰弗里·爱泼斯坦：肮脏的财富》

安德鲁和爱泼斯坦长子查尔斯1981年7月与戴安娜结婚，定居在海格洛夫庄园(Highgrove)，距离卡米拉的住处车程只有15分钟。

女王前来时，戴安娜已怀有身孕不愿离开卧房。

1982年6月21日，戴安娜于晚上21时在伦敦圣玛丽医院生下威廉王子。

卧床的戴安娜查尔斯是真心喜欢园艺，女王又一次展现吐槽小能手。

查尔斯说不喜欢直线，女王说你这游泳池子不是直线嘛。

查尔斯说一切都要有机，女王说那你这网球场也是有机的？

查尔斯开始自我陶醉的念白时，女王开始走神说不如早点吃饭吧。

这里一定要看老戏骨Olivia Colman的表演，真得笑死。

之后吃饭时对查尔斯也进行了训斥。

全片印象最深的是女王和安妮公主的谈话，明明是一个站在顶端的家庭，快乐还是那么难得。

女王的zz理念和育儿哲学都差不多第五集 Fagan 费根1. 私闯王宫这集编剧是Jonathan Wilson和Peter Mogrgan，不得不说，编剧太会“以小见大”了，同时在真实事件虚构情节反而更为突显现实。

英国编剧Peter Mogrgan有人私闯女王住宅是真，两人谈话为假。

可正是这虚构的聊天内容，反而道出当时普遍和底层民众的处境和心声。

麦克费根1982年7月的一个清晨，麦克费根(Michael Fagan)闯入了白金汉宫女王的卧室。

早在同年6月，他就私闯过王宫，不过当时惊扰了一个女员工，在警卫来之前跑掉了。

麦克费根被送往了精神病院接受治疗剧集中的的对话纯属虚构，女王看到他后只说了一句“你在这里做什么”就跑掉了。

In a 2012 interview, Fagan told The Independent that the Queen was wearing a knee-length Liberty print nightdress in a double bed and said to him: “Wawrt are you doing here?!'" before running out of the room to get help.

麦克费根仍然在世，前段时间得了新Guan2. 当时背景1982年4月2日，马尔维纳斯群岛战争，简称马岛战争（福克兰群岛战争）爆发。

4月中下旬，南乔治亚岛(South Georgia Islands)被英方夺回。

6月14日，阿根廷驻军司令梅南德兹少将向英国皇家海军陆战队的摩尔少将投降。

英军在六月二十日重夺南乔治亚与南三明治群岛并接受当地阿根廷军队的献降；马岛战争参战双方正式停火。

长达七十四天的马岛战争共有死亡数字255名英军、649名阿军、3名福克兰居民。

英国zf已下令有关福克兰战争的机密资料将在2082年解封。

阿根廷的战败导致了更大规模的反zf运动，最后导致军zf倒台。

对于英国来说，强烈的爱国主义情绪横扫全国，加强了以首相撒切尔夫人为首的zf的权威，同时帮助保守党赢得了1983年的普选。

（来源：百度百科）

首相前去敬礼而非女王尽管最终撒切尔的强势手段治愈了“英国病”，即反复发作的高通胀，可同时也影响到了民众的生活，这是为其带来坏名声的原因之一。

货币主义(Monetarism)，又称货币学派，是1960年代形成的经济学流派，以挑战凯恩斯主义的面貌出现。

货币主义在提出之初并不受重视，直到撒切尔夫人在英国采用货币主义政策，使英国经济成功复苏，货币主义政策开始受到各国重视。

（来源：维基百科）

在其执政初期，失业人数达到三百万人，底层民众的生活愈发困难。

而正是在这种情景下，费根才会前去私闯王宫，借编剧之口讲出社会现状。

撒切尔信奉货币主义理论，上台后就进行大刀阔斧的改革。

她主要采取四项措施，一是私有化，二是控制货币，三是削减福利开支，四是打击工会力量。

她为了减少通货膨胀实行紧缩政策，使得商业损失和破产均有增加。

（来源：百度百科）

《王冠》第四季分集简介-第1-2集《王冠》第四季分集简介-第3集世纪婚礼《王冠》第四季分集简介-第6-8集《王冠》第四季分集简介-第9-10集

看过皇冠前几季的朋友都知道，玛格丽特公主年轻时爱上一个大自己十几岁的离婚男人，后来在教会的强烈反对下，不得不放弃这段感情，而公主以后的婚姻也不幸福。

因为当时的教规，严格来说，不赞同离婚的人再婚，如果前配偶依然活着。

生在皇室的玛格丽特公主，没办法避开严格的教规。

不得不含泪割爱。

当年在英国，还有一个大玛格丽特公主五岁的女孩，也叫玛格丽特，父亲是偏远小镇杂货店老板，我们就称她为玛格丽特杂货店妞。

玛格丽特杂货店妞24岁这年也遇上了一个大她11岁的离婚男人，是个有家族石油公司的小富二代。

杂货店妞家庭也宗教氛围浓厚，要再进一步发展关系，其实也面对教规的压力。

但是，杂货店妞毕竟在民间，不必像公主那样面对那么严格的条条框框，教规破了就破了呗。

玛格丽特杂货店妞26岁那年嫁人，正式成为玛格丽特撒切尔夫人。

婚后，杂货店妞在老公丹尼斯金钱和感情的双重支持下，步入政坛。

28年后，杂货店妞成为英国第一任女首相。

玛格丽特杂货店妞的婚姻持续了53年，白头到老，恩爱无比。

而喊着金汤匙出生的玛格丽特公主，后来却离婚了，猛抽烟，郁郁而终。

撒切尔夫妇很有意思，真实的童话没发生在王室。

那个真实的女生童话，从来不是玛格丽特公主，不是戴安娜王妃，而是小镇杂货铺出生的玛格丽特 撒切尔夫人。

出生卑微，自我奋斗，婚姻幸福，事业辉煌，优雅绽放。

大家好，我是戴着眼镜拿着话筒的阿拉斯加，片片。

头铁、血厚的见得不少，但敢在生前就彩排葬礼，还不止一次的硬核玩家，世上少有。

“超长待机”的英国女王伊丽莎白二世就是这样的选手。

先来一张女王年轻时候的美图镇楼作为英国女王，她一旦驾崩，可是举国上下的大事。

而她的葬礼方案也不是这几年才制定出来的，早在女王34岁的时候，国家就开始为女王驾崩做好了万全准备。

女王在不同地点、不同时间离开人世的各种方案，早就整得明明白白。

但一晃半个多世纪过去了，女王送走了一届又一届政府，熬倒了无数当初跟她同时活跃在政坛上的政客，她仍然屹立不倒。

最近，以她的王者生涯为蓝本改编的电视剧《王冠》强势回归。

目前这部剧一共四季，评分最低的一季9.2分。

没看过前三季不要紧，片片先给大家总结一下。

前两季主要聚焦于女王的青年时代，父亲乔治六世猝然离世，彼时伊丽莎白正代替父亲在非洲考察，在慌乱中登上皇位。

女王尚且稚嫩，扑面而来的却都是惊天动地的大事儿：带领英国走出战争泥潭的首相丘吉尔卸任；

个人认为《王冠》里的丘吉尔不输任何一个影视化版本，刻画出了晚年敏感焦虑的丘吉尔妹妹玛格丽特公主爱上了有妇之夫，两人想要结合，玛格丽特必须放弃王室身份；还有从13岁起就陪伴自己的丈夫菲利普亲王出轨。

身处皇室，家庭问题就等同于国家问题，“内忧”和“外患”同时袭来，女王是焦头烂额。

第三季，中年版女王上线。

玛格丽特公主则由小天狼星的表姐贝拉·莱斯特兰奇饰演此时的女王显然更游刃有余，但时代进步飞速，生性保守的女王，有时却与这个日新月异的时代格格不入。

到了这一季，除了女王本人，导演把戏份分给了另外两位举世瞩目的女性——撒切尔夫人和戴安娜王妃。

主海报也一改以往女王是绝对主角的模式通过这几位女性的故事，《王冠》之所以季季封神的原因也水落石出。

其一就是见微知著。

虽然讲的是英国皇室，背景是国际上的种种风起云涌，《王冠》的切入点却无一例外，都非常细微，但直击要害。

撒切尔夫人执政的头几年，她的经济转型政策造成了英国国内失业率居高不下，怨声载道。

与国内局势截然相反的则是，在英国和阿根廷为争夺马岛主权爆发的战争中，英国大获全胜。

剧中没用一个马岛战争的镜头，或任何表现国民失业悲惨现状的画面，来突出这种反差。

当然也有可能是为了省钱。

（一个玩笑哈哈）取而代之的是撒切尔在国内备受人们认可，风头一时无两的画面。

电视画面里，撒切尔夫人正取代女王检阅部队与之形成鲜明对比的则是一件女王执政生涯非常小的波澜。

一名长期失业的中年男子，想通过政府人才市场找工作，但始终没有结果，只能靠打零工勉强度日。

他认为，现任首相撒切尔夫人的无能，把英国带向了深渊，于是他不断向国会反映问题，却始终没有得到回应。

某天，求助无门的他竟突破了白金汉宫的安保系统，闯进女王卧室，想直接找她谈话。

但当天女王碰巧不在白金汉宫，安保人员也没有抓住他。

过了些时日，男子再次闯入。

这回，他终于见到了女王。

女王虽然非常惊恐，但仍然跟他进行了十几分钟的谈话，他通过这个契机，向女王传达了底层真正的声音。

与女王见证过的其他历史相比，这件事实在显得微不足道。

却把当时英国外强中干的现状刻画出来。

再举一个例子。

皇室的种种宫闱秘事前几季已经讲了太多了，皇室成员也是人，不可能永远精准、不出差错。

但为了维护皇权，不让人有机会质疑宪政，皇室必须假装完美无瑕。

皇室的表面夫妻远不止这一对这才有了玛格丽特公主无法与真正爱的人相守，人们对菲利普亲王的风流韵事也都避而不谈。

但你以为被掩盖的只有种种丑闻？

身为皇室，连基因都有可能要被藏起来。

一个偶然的契机，玛格丽特发现，自己有五位表姐妹生活在精神病院，而且这几位表亲在很多年前就被宣布死亡了。

知道真相的玛格丽特非常愤怒，找到母亲对峙。

母亲这才道出真相，原来，这几位表亲的精神疾病源于家族遗传。

如果世人知道了皇室血统中有如此大的隐患，那么本就岌岌可危的世袭制很可能再次遭到质疑，因此，皇室隐瞒了这几位表亲的存在。

也就是说，生而为皇族成员，从出生起，整个人就只剩下社会性，而失去了个人属性。

甚至连基因，都要为皇室、为统治服务。

如果你不符合标准，对不起，只有一个下场，那就是被和谐。

几位并不重要表亲如此，身处皇室中心的女王以及她的伴侣、子女更应如是。

如果说王室身份要求女王一家人抹去自己的人性，那么《王冠》另一个厉害之处就在于，集中展现了人物在理性与感性之间挣扎。

在几乎封神的皇权面前，这种挣扎更显示出了人物的丰富。

比如，哪怕贵为王室，家族成员之间也在暗暗角力，都想成为更光彩、更有权威的那个。

女王和撒切尔夫人政见不一，前者更倾向于无为，后者大胆果决，两人常常针锋相对。

某次，撒切尔夫人提到两人同龄，女王装着傲娇镇定地样子问道：谁更年长一些？

当得到自己比撒切尔夫人小半年的答案之后，女王表面上不动于色，却明显有被人压了一头的感觉。

这种较劲甚至体现在两个女人的服装上。

马岛战争大胜，撒切尔夫人正在政治生涯的最高峰。

女王一直对出征马岛持保留意见，但面对如此战绩，她完全被气焰高涨的撒切尔夫人压制。

深蓝色套装也是撒切尔夫人的标准性造型两人一个着深蓝一个着浅蓝，浅蓝被深蓝完全压制。

而等到撒切尔夫人政治生命的尾声，她面临国会质疑，如果没有女王支持，被迫下台几乎成了定局。

但女王没有伸出援手，她选择让政治体制自己去运作、疗伤。

这一次，深蓝浅蓝调换。

谁强势谁弱势，一目了然。

这种暗暗较劲几乎存在于每一个皇室成员身上。

女王唯一的女儿安妮公主，性格非常耿直，作风严肃。

因为她热心慈善，并且是一名职业马术运动员，曾代表英国参加过奥运会，很受国民爱戴。

这位公主可是货真价实的运动员然而，明媚热情的戴安娜嫁入皇室之后，不免有人将两人放在一起对比。

相比不苟言笑的安妮公主，开朗、有亲和力的戴妃显然更受人们欢迎。

安妮公主也因此心生不满。

不仅是安妮公主，甚至是查尔斯王子都不能忍受自己妻子太过耀眼。

基本上地球人都知道，查尔斯王子和戴妃的婚姻差不多就是一场骗局。

查尔斯钟情曾有过婚史的卡米拉，但为了维护皇室的体面，他的王妃必须是一个背景简单、性格纯粹的小女孩。

这个女孩儿正是戴安娜。

这还原度也是没谁了但这对强扭的爱人婚后都有各自的情人，尽管婚姻一度到了走不下去的地步，为了维护王室尊严，两人被迫成为表面夫妻。

戴安娜想和查尔斯重修旧好，因此在庆祝他生日的演出上大秀舞技。

人们倾倒于王妃的魅力，但看台上的查尔斯却不买账。

他强颜欢笑着，内心其实非常不满自己这位抢眼的王妃，风头几乎盖过他这位准国王。

随后，王妃独自访问美国，美国国民都对这位大方亲民的王妃充满好感，反响非常热烈。

外界看来，戴安娜是个完美的王妃，卡米拉也自愧不如，这更是激怒了查尔斯，让他们的婚姻彻底堕入冰窟。

圣诞夜，女王一家欢聚一堂，合照时，为皇室赢得颇多好感的戴妃，却像个局外人一样格格不入。

是不是差点就找不到人前闪耀的戴妃这时，身在高位的孤独与无奈被渲染到了极致。

观众也终于看到，神圣不可动摇的皇室里，有的只是一群被命运抬到这个位置上的普通人。

他们同样有贪欲、有私心、有嫉妒。

因此，看这部剧能看到的不仅仅是风起云涌的大历史，还有诸多鲜活生动的人物。

也正是在要求光明、完美的王权映衬下，才更突显人性的复杂、微妙。

这也是这部剧之所以一直保持高水平的原因。

第五季，观众熟悉的乌姆里奇教授将出演老年伊丽莎白二世，《信条》里身高190的美艳女主会出演更为成熟的戴安娜王妃。

我已经迫不及待想看主创怎么演绎戴妃离世的大戏了。

当然，如果想继续看视频解说这部剧，听我掰扯女王在位这六十多年来，波澜壮阔的历史，点点在看，呼声高的话，一定视频伺候。

今天就聊到这儿，拜了个拜本文图片来自网络编辑助理：阿苏

E1美帝至今选不出一位女总统，真差劲。

作为世界上为数不多的皇室，他们的休闲活动不怎么有意思。

迪基、菲利普、查尔斯三人之间的关系挺不寻常。

我一直以为戴安娜王妃是平民。

e2戴安娜是个很有野心的人。

英国真是苦寒之地，下大雨天全家人出门猎杀从隔壁领地跑过来的麋鹿。

首相才是国家最有权力的人，他们对待首相挺失礼。

去打猎该穿什么衣服，大英帝国的首相这样的吗，别说是国家元首，就是我们公司的领导出行，秘书都会把这些事情办得妥妥贴贴，避免尴尬情景，女王的秘书和首相的秘书就不能对一下吗。

这该死的君主立宪制。

首相金句真多啊，“工作就是我们的娱乐”、“休息从来不会让我快乐”。

女王任上那么多位首相，从本剧所呈现的情况来看，唯有撒切尔能比肩丘吉尔。

工人阶级出身的知识分子当然讨厌这些贵族做派以及愚昧习俗。

聪明朴实的女孩在打猎中很快得到了公公婆婆的欢心。

在挂尸房和儿子作择偶谈话，谁会这样干啊。

整个剧对查尔斯婚恋故事的描绘基调是沉重的。

e3从订婚开始就已貌合神离，原来卡米拉的角色如此重要。

制度与制度之间互有胜负，如果是在金将军或者普大大家里，可能没有那么多规矩，但会活在恐惧中，而在女王家里，不必担心哪天会被炮决，但确实有非常多的规矩。

种种迹象都在指向：快跑！

但小女孩又懂得什么呢，成为皇后多么吸引人。

这有什么意思呢，大家都累。

烟花下的谈话，不是妈妈与即将成婚的儿子的谈话，而是君主与继承人的谈话。

本集名称是童话，而王子公主在结婚后并没有从此幸福快乐地生活下去。

e4菲利普这角色总是很有意思，当然也可能演员让他增色不少。

女王心血来潮想知道自己最喜欢四个孩子中的哪一个，突然要享受一点亲子时光，然后发现儿女们过得都不开心。

女王是个挺传统的女士，生了一堆孩子，通过啥都不做、忍耐来度过不快乐的时光。

撒切尔是在比较差的状态下履职，把国家引向一场战争，有负国家。

到这一集不太喜欢撒切尔了，不够进步。

女王的几个孩子都是中人之资而且娇生惯养，还好皇室只是国家吉祥物。

首相是因对阿根廷的强硬立场获得铁娘子的称号吗。

首相家连个保姆都没有，还要亲自做饭给参谋长们吃。

查尔斯的婚姻没有一天是开心的，与卡米拉的关系就没断过。

这一集讲的亲子关系有意思，很饱满。

真不真实不重要，重点是好故事。

当我知道英国和阿根廷在不远的过去还打过仗时，第一反应就是bully 。

e5尽管如此，我仍觉得这些西方人被宠坏了。

安保确实差，他不光潜入了皇宫，还在巨大的宫殿里成功找到了女王。

他还进了两次皇宫。

这要发生在我国可咋办。

女王处理得很得体，在她那个位置上可没被如此对待过，难以想象我们的皇上也能这样得体。

e6查尔斯和卡米拉一起在聚会中讲猎熊人的黄色笑话，还挺不体面的。

父母关系是这样的，很难想象查尔斯和威廉之间有正常的父子关系。

四两拨千斤地化解了君主制难题，不太可能吧。

如果不能做到讨人喜欢，君主立宪制里的君主部分就很难实现了。

敏感而缺乏安全感的查尔斯，女王在他小时候就独自出访五个月，当然了。

女王对擅闯皇宫的男人都比对戴安娜友善。

e7玛格丽特去世得更早一些，抽烟喝酒是一方面，另一方面则是空虚，郁郁寡欢。

e8女王登基三十余年，第一位公开不对付的首相竟是女首相。

这外国人真是大惊小怪，这点小事就线症危机，没见过世面。

他们对待新闻秘书的方式才是英式的，是yes prime minister 一直在告诉我们的。

London rules,cover your arse。

这能创造一位优秀的政治惊悚小说家吗？

e9查尔斯是个不讨喜的国王，极度缺乏安全感，或许与女王在他幼时独自出访五个月，没法亲自给他洗澡有关。

他的父亲和他相比是个更好的丈夫，至少有趣。

确如本集名称，雪崩。

小时候从新闻上只知道戴妃受人爱戴，但不知道还有那么多桃色新闻。

雪崩后两人的反应截然相反，而与父母的谈话也很微妙。

这样其实更累。

这些王子公主也已三十七八了，但仍像是小孩，养尊处优真好。

e10撒切尔夫人外表真是强硬，可能也是得这样的性格才能做得了女首相，彼时的大英帝国女性平权当年毕竟也没做多好，女王都生了四个孩子。

撒切尔有点权欲熏心，都想解散国会了。

圣上为人民服务的心肯定也与她一样。

戴妃是个不错的人，而查尔斯挺讨人厌。

英国人可能都这么想，讨人厌的国王。

女王总是试图躲避儿子与儿媳的婚姻问题。

女王也说得也没大错，养尊处优无病呻吟的夫妇。

这一季看着在讲查尔斯夫妇的婚姻生活，但仍旧是在讲述王冠的沉重，尽管查尔斯做国王的时间不长，但他被王冠压了一辈子。

查尔斯英俊聪明、很有才华，本质只是个缺乏爱和认可的小男孩，内心敏感脆弱，却生下来便是皇室的长子，众目期盼，遇真爱而不得。

第六集他和女王一起在庭院畅谈诗意时，母亲眼里的无感，竟让我有了一丝怜惜。

不谈社会伦理道德，卡米拉是可以满足他的情感需求的，而戴妃相比起来天真烂漫、自由活泼，却同样缺乏爱与安全感、自我约束的能力，在错误的位置上没有退路可选、没办法抵挡来势汹汹的复杂与压力。

If not choose bend, only break. 不仅皇室，有时候现实社会的高墙也是让人如此。

人也只能自渡，就如撒切尔女儿问她为什么偏爱儿子时，她说得那样“如果自己能力本身捉襟见肘，别人是帮不了的”。

这个铁娘子出生在偏远小镇，退休后成为大英帝国的首相。

我不认可她的冷漠功利与现实，却佩服这个铮铮铁骨的勇气与决心。

而我们爱戴女王，就是因为她的格局与慈悲。

尽量两个女人如此巨大的冲突与不同，当撒切尔夫人被迫退位时，女王仍召见与认可她的成就。

这一季也是对那个是否适合进入皇室圈子测试结果的反讽，一个史上最高分的黛安娜终身被困，没有通过的撒切尔夫人却坚持了自我。

三十岁是而立之年，但查尔斯并没有能看清楚自己与所处的位置，因为这个测试茫然走进包办婚姻。

《倾城之恋》里有一段话是“你如果认识从前的我, 也许你会原谅现在的我。

如果能了解每个人的从前，也许什么都可以被原谅了。

一见面就觉得可憎之人，若看着他从一个小孩，如何一步步成为现在这样，或许也会心生些怜悯。

市侩俗气的，也许从小吃够了没钱的苦；冷漠的，也许受尽了冷漠。

” 从前几季追过来，会觉得他也只不过是皇室的牺牲品。

不管是王子、王妃或任何一个皇室的人也只不过都是outsider, 重要的是the crown, 即使女王本人很多时候也必须忍耐放弃以承其重。

生而为人，处处都有枷锁，或许是象征权贵的皇冠，或许是社会体制大环境，或许只是内心的贪嗔痴。

每个人都并非简简单单的好人或者坏人，对的人或者错的人，善良的人或者心怀恶意的人，温良的人或者危险的人。

接受人性多面且立体的事实。

只有当了解了对方的缺点或暗淡却依然选择参与彼此人生，才是一段关系真正开始的时候。

“人生若只如初见”和查尔斯及黛安娜的世纪婚礼一样，只是个童话泡沫。

降低对亲密关系不切实际的过高期待，认识到彼此只不过是处处受限的凡人，相互体谅包容，才能会有细水长流的陪伴。

最近理想国有一篇叫《年轻人的爱情死了，不是被“985相亲局”杀死的》的文章，提到“现在的社会，很多人认为相比于爱的感觉这种不稳定的情感因素，经济利益之类的考量在婚姻中似乎更加可靠。

当寻找爱情沦为寻找婚姻的工具，爱情本身也就变得可有可无。

个体将自己视为可以面向未来规划的项目，被要求为自己的失败负责。

爱所带来的伤害和磨难也就不再被我们接受。

” 皇室的婚姻才更喜欢童话、不能有失败，也不是每个人都对权利财富趋之若鹜。

没有光环也意味着轻松自在，作为一个普通人，希望都可以找到适合自己的位置，成为自己，找到平静。

之前在书店看书拍得，像极了被婚姻孩子绑住得两个不相爱的人

“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.” — Charles Mackay

我是不由自主的把《王冠》当纪录片看，但据说故事情节很多是虚构，想来也是，王室成员们是不会给剧组提供素材的，参考众多的回忆录和纪录片来编写剧本。

剧组演员有原型做比较，感觉大多数演员都跟原型有距离，很多演员的气质远远没有达到角色要求。

女王、玛格丽特都没有本人漂亮，也缺乏气质，女王稍好一点，还有睿智的一面，玛格丽特就完全不行了，作为乔治六世的掌上明珠，长公主玛格丽特也受到女王的宠爱，那种明艳的风采，没有表现出来。

这一季王妃的扮演者，处处强调年少时期戴妃的害羞，但眉眼之间显得内心戏十足，稚嫩的外表下掩饰着心机和算计，她那招牌式的低头偷看的眼神，缩头缩肩，甚至显得有些猥琐；大致剧情感觉还是比较符合史实，至于一些细节是否是真实的，就不得而知了；关于查尔斯和黛安娜之间的故事，一直是世人关注的焦点，王室的粉丝们一些拥戴一些拥查（卡），对于他们之间的恩恩怨怨，纷争不已，传言很多；作为往事包办婚姻里的主角，其实都是受害者，痛苦的婚姻里面，受折磨的是每一个人。

其中一个情节印象深刻：为了争取舆论上的支持，爱出风头的戴妃独自访问美国，大获成功，人气空前高涨，查戴婚姻已经处于破裂阶段的博弈已经白热化，卡米拉意识到自己被推上了查戴婚姻破裂的元凶的位置，于是请求查尔斯不要离婚，查尔斯跑去质问戴妃：舆论的一边倒给卡米拉带来了巨大的伤害，戴妃表示:I dont care! 查尔斯怒吼道：我在乎！

她是我的挚爱，我无时无刻不在在意着。

那一刻我都不禁同情起黛安娜：婚姻失败的一塌糊涂，丈夫对自己明确表示深爱着另外一个女人，本来就很自我的戴妃这一打击不轻，后面也就越走越极端。

查尔斯这个角色可能是选的最好的一个，年轻时的查尔斯，在强势的父母下，大概就那样了。

撒切尔夫人这个角色可能是最糟糕的，刻意模仿的慢节奏讲话，加上侧耳倾听的动作，感觉是年老失聪，脑子也转不过来，整个就是一个固执己见的老太太，还跟所有人都不和，最终因盟友背叛，很不情愿的下了台；跟女王对峙的几场戏也显得外强中干，黯然下台的时候，女王给颁发的勋章，更多的是同情而非认可。

一点粗浅的看法。

从编剧的角度，在一些场景中，出现了巨大的失真，但是也能理解，毕竟把十年装进10集，还要体现故事的连贯性，这是超人的任务。

但是尤其是撒切尔夫人在庄园受到的待遇怎么想都太离谱了。

对话设计上也过于简单，代表是女王在白金汉宫被入侵后个撒切尔说的话，基本等于重复左派和右派价值观，等等抛开这些不谈，看故事和设计也足够有意思了，也普及了英国历史。

从人生的角度看撒切尔夫人是真正的赢家，虽然11年执政被党内逼宫，但是新保守主义今天阴魂不散（左派看来，换句话说这工党真废物），和丈夫一辈子亲密无间，真正留下了自己的遗产。

或许编剧怕变成对卡米拉的控诉，让戴安娜先说自己是“country girl”又讨厌乡村生活。

但是遇见这窝囊废，她又能怎么办呢。

反观女王，家里就没有什么婚姻幸福的人。

一天到晚好像离个婚能导致宗教改革一样。

我看这一家子每一个看重婚姻啊。

更吊诡的是，既然不在意，强迫他们结婚干什么？

好家伙，根本一家子混蛋，空食汉禄，尸位素餐，屁事不干。

还一天到晚国家挂在嘴边，没见过这么不要脸的。

更可怕的是未来的英国国王还是个变态，这想想都让人害怕。

好家伙，写着写着我就生气了，这边建议是guillotine杀头+共和制一条龙服务呢。

原文链接The fourth season of The Crown stretches from May 1979, when Margaret Thatcher is elected Britain’s first female prime minister, to Christmas 1990, shortly after she has been drummed out of office. Peter Morgan, the show’s creator, tells us: “We do our very, very best to get it right, but sometimes I have to conflate [incidents] . . . You sometimes have to forsake accuracy, but you must never forsake truth.” The forsaking of the truth, the perverting and twisting of known facts, is what has always concerned me throughout the four seasons of this series. It is about real people, often put into fictional situations.The main protagonists in season four are Thatcher and the Prince and Princess of Wales, clashed against some of the other characters from season three and earlier. This creates a new problem for anyone watching it since in both these relationships there are numerous contradictions, there has been much side-taking and it is possible to slant things in a variety of different ways. Nevertheless, even having taken that into consideration, there are established truths and untruths. My conclusion on this series is that it is yet more subtly divisive than earlier seasons. Pretty much every character is dislikeable. The Queen is portrayed as glum and schoolmistressly — quite unlike the real Queen. The Queen Mother is given some truly horrible lines; Princess Margaret is downright rude; Thatcher buttoned up. Diana is the heroine of this series, largely portrayed — in my view often unfairly — as the victim of a heartless family.Episode 1Did Lord Mountbatten write Prince Charles a letter urging him to settle down, on the day he set out for his ill-fated boating expedition at Mullaghmore?❌ FALSEThe Crown shows Lord Mountbatten on holiday at Classiebawn Castle, Co Sligo, on the morning of August 27, 1979, about to set off on a fishing trip with his daughter and other members of his family. He writes Prince Charles a letter urging him to find “some sweet and innocent, well-tempered girl with no past” to settle down with, and to do his duty. In reality, he wrote no such letter that day.He did, however, write to Prince Charles on many other occasions offering him advice, and many similar letters exist. Mountbatten was by no means a good influence. He urged Prince Charles to “sow his wild oats” before finding the unsullied girl. It’s true also that Charles held Mountbatten in high esteem. Mountbatten, it should be noted, was blown up at Mullaghmore by the IRA before Lady Diana Spencer came on the scene.Episode 2Do the Queen and the royal family lay secret protocol traps for hapless visitors to test them when they come and stay at Balmoral? Did they apply this to Thatcher?❌ FALSEThe Queen and the royal family go out of their way to make their guests feel at ease at Balmoral. In real life, Mr and Mrs Thatcher arrived at the castle on Saturday, September 8, 1979, a mere three days after Lord Mountbatten’s ceremonial funeral at Westminster Abbey. No hint of that in this episode of The Crown. It has to be 1979 because clearly they have never been before. But unlike what is shown in The Crown, there was no torturing of Thatcher, no maids being superciliously rude to her, no wrong-footing in silly games, no making her ill at ease for wearing the wrong clothes or shoes, and no, Thatcher did not plead pressure of work in London and leave early.In The Crown Diana too is invited to Balmoral to be checked out and succeeds and passes the tests, which Thatcher failed. Diana’s visit was, in fact, a year later, in 1980, and at a time when the Queen was not there.Was Thatcher berated by Princess Margaret for sitting in Queen Victoria’s chair at Balmoral — a chair in which no one must sit?✅ PARTLY TRUEA scene shows Thatcher retreating from a stalking expedition and working at a desk, where Princess Margaret strays across her. She berates her for sitting in Queen Victoria’s chair. It is true that there is a chair at Balmoral that no one should sit in — a winged armchair that was indeed Queen Victoria’s. It is in one of the drawing rooms, and about ten years ago the Queen had it moved to a place where people would not easily reach it. Queen Victoria was very tiny, so had Thatcher used it at her desk her chin would have been where her elbows should have been.Episode 3Was Thatcher out of place when staying at Balmoral?✅ TRUEThatcher was not particularly interested in country pursuits, but she went to Balmoral quite happily for the traditional stay by the prime minister in the late summer of each year. After the first Balmoral visit in 1979 her husband, Denis, wrote a letter, later quoted by their daughter, Carol: “There was a house party and some of the people who’d been shooting didn’t come in until later and then there were more drinks — because they’re very generous with drink — and then we went in for dinner. In their language it’s probably very informal but nevertheless you’re on tiptoe. There’s the usual sort of after-dinner conversation over coffee and then the Queen withdraws fairly early . . .”Did Prince Philip summon Prince Charles to the hanging room at Balmoral to command him to marry Diana?❌ FALSEThe Crown suggests that Prince Philip carpeted Prince Charles after the visit Diana supposedly made there in 1979. Presumably the film-makers chose the hanging room, where they skin the wildlife, to emphasise the idea of lambs to the slaughter. No, Prince Philip did not arrange such an encounter. The truth is that Diana began to be pursued by the press in the autumn of 1980, when the media got a hint that she might be Prince Charles’s future bride. She ran the gauntlet of photographers every time she left her flat in Coleherne Court, Earls Court.Aware of this, Prince Philip wrote to Prince Charles either late in 1980 or maybe early in 1981. Jonathan Dimbleby wrote in his authorised biography of “an intervention from the Duke of Edinburgh”, which had “a powerful if not a decisive impact”. The letter warned Prince Charles that he should decide one way or the other because he was risking damaging Diana’s reputation. Prince Charles interpreted this as “an ultimatum”, which was not the original intent. Thus, in a “confused and anxious state of mind”, the prince went ahead and proposed to Diana in early February 1981.Did Prince Charles really leave for Highgrove immediately after his engagement was announced, the presumption being that he would be seeing Camilla Parker Bowles, who lived near by?❌ FALSEThe Crown depicts those famous embarrassing lines by Prince Charles in the engagement interview at Buckingham Palace: “Whatever love means.” In real life Diana laughed nervously. In The Crown she looks cross. They have Prince Charles departing immediately afterwards for Highgrove, his Gloucestershire home, by implication to see Camilla. In fact, Charles and Diana dined with the Queen Mother at Clarence House that evening, which was also where Diana was staying.In this episode of The Crown, having seen Camilla, Charles then flies off — the very next day — on his official Antipodean tour. No. The engagement was announced on February 24, 1981. He flew to New Zealand on March 29, more than a month later, then on to Australia, Venezuela and the United States.Were the royal family beastly to Diana after her engagement, accusing her of not knowing to whom she should curtsey and making a clumsy entry into their midst?❌ FALSEWe see Diana arriving at Buckingham Palace and coming into a room filled with the royal family and bungling the curtseys. Princess Margaret tears a strip off her and they appear to mock her. This is spiteful rubbish. Diana had been brought up in the shadow of Sandringham, at Park House. Her two grandmothers and four great-aunts were in the Queen Mother’s household. Her father had been equerry to the Queen on the 1953-54 Commonwealth tour. She knew precisely what to do.Was Diana really clueless about royal protocol?❌ FALSEWe see Diana being instructed in many royal customs by her grandmother, Ruth, Lady Fermoy. Lady Fermoy is portrayed as a harridan. In real life she was much gentler (at least on the surface). Not only did Diana not need instruction in that way, but the nonsense the screen version Ruth Fermoy tells her granddaughter is risible. HRHs do not curtsey to each other. There is only one Page of the Backstairs etc.Diana did get advice about her new role from the four men in Prince Charles’s private office — Edward Adeane, Francis Cornish, Michael Colborne and Oliver Everett. Later in life she liked to claim that she was given no help.Was Diana cooped up in Buckingham Palace during the months before the wedding?✅ TRUEIn The Crown we see Diana dancing alone to her Walkman, rollerskating in the state rooms and confronted with trolley-loads of flowers and letters from the public. It’s here we first see her bulimia. As soon as she was engaged, the real Diana left her flat in Earls Court, first went to Clarence House, then moved to Buckingham Palace a few days later. She lived there for about five months until her marriage in July.The palace is more of a huge office/Edwardian hotel than a cosy home, and it is understandable that she felt gloomy there. The contrast to her life with her flatmates and this new life must have been sharp. One of the pages, working there at the time and looking after her, used to go out and buy her takeaways. So the loneliness and isolation portrayed in The Crown is accurate. It is also true that Diana did not see Prince Charles much before the wedding. She called him “Sir” until the day he proposed.Did Camilla Parker Bowles and Diana have lunch while Prince Charles was away in Australia?✅ TRUEThey did lunch together, according to one of Charles and Diana’s biographers, Sally Bedell Smith. Camilla wished to help her. However, Diana interpreted the motive for the lunch as being to establish that she would be mainly in London, leaving Highgrove and Gloucestershire and hunting as Camilla’s territory.All evidence suggests that whatever he may have wished, Prince Charles was perfectly aware that his relationship with Camilla had to stop when he got engaged, and that this was understood by all concerned. As Dimbleby put it: “Now that he was engaged to be married there was, and there would be, no other woman in his life.” Diana went into St Paul’s Cathedral for her wedding with her head down, and came out with her head up. She was now his wife, and genuinely hoped she could make him happy.Did Prince Charles give Camilla a special bracelet before his and Diana’s wedding?✅ TRUEIn The Crown we see Diana coming across the designs for a bracelet that the Prince of Wales intends to give his mistress shortly before the wedding. It is marked with the initials “F&G”, which Diana told her author, Andrew Morton, she thought stood for “Fred” and “Gladys” — Charles and Camilla’s pet names for each other.In reality, in the run-up to the wedding, the four private secretaries in Prince Charles’s private office became aware that Diana was preoccupied by suspicions concerning the prince’s relationship with Camilla. A bracelet was commissioned as a way of the prince saying goodbye. It had the initials “GF”, which stood for “Girl Friday”. Diana discovered the bracelet. She confronted Prince Charles and was not mollified. Nevertheless, he felt he should hand over the bracelet in person. The Dimbleby-authorised version is that this was the only time he saw Camilla between his engagement and the day of his wedding.Diana later told Morton that photos of Camilla spewed out of her husband’s wallet on their honeymoon. She believed that his relationship with Camilla never ceased. Clearly there were acute differences between the newlyweds right from the start of the marriage. On their honeymoon on Britannia, Diana chatted up the sailors and cooks, and he remained, as he wrote at the time, “hermit-like on the verandah deck, sunk with pure joy into one of Laurens van der Post’s books . . .”Episode 4Did Prince Charles call Camilla every day during the early years of his marriage to Diana?❌ FALSEPrince Charles had virtually no contact with Camilla at all for the first five years. Yet since Andrew Parker Bowles (the husband of Camilla) was commanding officer of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment from 1981 to 1983, then colonel commanding the Household Cavalry and Silver Stick from 1987 to 1990, there must have been a few formal encounters. Dimbleby dates the resumption of contact between them to 1986, by which time Charles’s marriage had, as he put it, “irretrievably broken down”.Did Mark Thatcher cause a national crisis when he got lost in the desert during a car race? Was he Thatcher’s favourite child?✅ TRUEThe Crown shows Mark Thatcher setting off in the Paris-Dakar car rally in January 1982. We see Thatcher in tears at her audience with the Queen telling her he has gone missing.This did happen. Mark Thatcher got stuck in the Sahara desert in Algeria for four days, and although he was not lost, nobody knew where he was. There were fears that he had been kidnapped. Thatcher was deeply upset and was seen in tears when the press asked her about the disappearance. President Mitterrand of France offered military support. Denis Thatcher was loaned a plane and after a 31-hour search young Mark was located. Denis was none too impressed with his son, not least for the casual response he made to the massive rescue operation.The Crown stresses that Mark was Thatcher’s favourite of her twins. This is confirmed by her daughter, Carol, in the biography she wrote about her father: “The rest of us could relax a little because Mark had hung an ‘occupied’ sign on the family’s ‘embarrassing relative’ slot.”Did Princess Anne resent the popularity of the Princess of Wales, and the lack of publicity she herself got in the media?❌ FALSEThis season implies that Princess Anne minded the easy publicity the Princess of Wales received just for wearing a new outfit, when she was a hard-working member of the royal family who got none. The truth is that Princess Anne did not care one iota about that. She never sought publicity or public approbation, a quality she shared with the Queen and Prince Philip. In fact, the arrival of Diana was liberating for Princess Anne. No longer was she meant to fulfil a role as a romantic, fairytale princess in the eyes of the media — she could be what she naturally was, a successful and highly executive princess.Episode 5How true was the depiction of Michael Fagan, the intruder who found his way into the Queen’s bedroom?✅ TRUEIt was a great shock to the nation to hear, in July 1982, that a man had twice scaled the walls of Buckingham Palace, and that on the second occasion security had been so lax that he had found his way into the Queen’s bedroom. Fortunately he had no malign intent, otherwise it could have been a great deal more serious.We don’t know the Queen’s version, but Fagan has described what happened, and The Crown’s events are close to a faithful representation of what happened — the two break-ins, him drinking the wine and later his confrontation with the Queen. Along with the June 1981 firing of blanks at the Queen in The Mall (an incident ignored by the makers of The Crown), this shows the Queen’s courage and adroit handling of what must have been a terrifying experience.Did Thatcher usurp the Queen’s position by taking the salute at the Falklands victory parade?✅ TRUEIn this episode Thatcher has an audience with the Queen telling her about the successful end of the Falklands conflict, then announces that she is off to attend the victory parade at Mansion House, where she, instead of the Queen, takes the salute. It did not happen exactly like that, of course.Stanley was taken back on June 14, 1982. The parade actually took place in London several months later, on October 12. However, Thatcher did attend, while the Queen did not, because she was on a tour of the South Pacific at the time. There were definitely hints in the media at the time that Thatcher was becoming presidential in her approach.Episode 6The Prince and Princess of Wales went on a tour of Australia and New Zealand in March 1983. Did Diana throw a tantrum and demand to change all the tour plans so as not to be separated from baby Prince William?❌ FALSEIt was a new idea for the Waleses to bring baby William with them on tour. Diana did not wish to be separated from her son, born the previous summer. But, no, the tour was not rearranged. In order that they could be with William, the outgoing Australian prime minister, Malcolm Fraser (who lost the election just before the visit), asked a well-known philanthropist, Gordon Darling, to lend them his sheep station, Woomargama, which was situated between Sydney and Melbourne and close to Canberra (by Australian standards). Albury airport was near by and they were able to fly everywhere, returning each night to be with the baby.They took about 27 flights during their visit. The Waleses stayed at Woomargama from March 20 to April 17 and they had an entourage of 23 British staff travelling with them, including a private chef. Those staff who stayed at Woomargama made a significant dent in Darling’s cellar.Did Prince Charles feel overshadowed by Diana on that trip?✅ PARTLY TRUEThis was one of the early examples of “Di-mania”, but since the Waleses were getting along well and the trip was considered a great success, the prince was more concerned as to how it would affect her. She was partly elated and partly exhausted. He wrote that she was a great support to him at times when he felt gloomy.There was certainly a part of him that did not like being upstaged by his wife. At this time his annoyance was matched by his pride in her, but it is true that later on he came to resent how people were only interested in her clothes, and thus did not listen to his speeches.Did Bob Hawke, the republican prime minister of Australia, refer to the Queen as “a pig in twin set and pearls in charge of a herd of prime beef cattle”?❌ FALSEIn The Crown Bob Hawke is portrayed as a rabid republican, hoping a visit by an out-of-touch and unremarkable Prince Charles would lead to the removal of the monarch as head of state of Australia. His plans are thwarted by the public’s thrall in Princess Diana.Yes, Hawke was an avowed republican, but there was no appetite for change to a republic in 1983. Hawke got on well with the Queen due to a shared interest in racing. He would never have referred to Prince Charles as a “jug-eared bonehead”, nor made jokes at a press conference: “You wouldn’t put a pig in charge of a herd of prime beef cattle — even if it did look good in a twin set and pearls.”Episode 7Did the Queen sideline Princess Margaret when Prince Edward came of age?❌ FALSEIn The Crown we see the Queen and her private secretary, Sir Martin Charteris, informing Princess Margaret that Prince Edward has come of age and she would no longer be eligible to serve as a Counsellor of State. To explain — six Counsellors of State are appointed to act on her behalf while the monarch is abroad (or incapacitated). Only two of them actually act — and they do so in tandem.While it is true that from March 1985 Princess Margaret could no longer be a Counsellor of State (which did disappoint her because she had enjoyed doing it), it made absolutely no difference to her other royal duties. This episode exaggerates this to imply that Princess Margaret’s role as a working member of the royal family had come to an end.Another point — Sir Martin retired in 1977 and became provost of Eton. But he stays on right through season four. By 1990 he would have been 77, but his actor does not age. He remains as youthful as ever — looking about 45.Were the Queen’s cousins put away in a state lunatic asylum to save the monarchy?❌ FALSEThis has no basis in truth. In this episode Princess Margaret visits a therapist due to her “sidelining” and is told of the existence of her two cousins shut away in Earlswood mental hospital. In real life she took no interest in them.Next they have the Queen Mother telling Princess Margaret that these girls had to be shut away because had it been known that they existed, it would have had serious consequences for the monarchy after the abdication. The implication is that the world may have feared that a strain of lunacy had entered the family.The reality was that these two girls and three cousins had inherited a defective gene from the Trefusis family from which all five descended through their mothers. Nerissa and Katherine were the daughters of Fenella Trefusis, who married the Queen Mother’s brother, Jock Bowes Lyon, so this had nothing to do with the Queen Mother’s bloodline.Episode 8Did Thatcher defy the Queen’s wishes for sanctions to be imposed on South Africa?✅ TRUEIn 1985 48 countries of the Commonwealth wanted to impose sanctions on South Africa, but Thatcher did not wish to do so. As head of the Commonwealth, the Queen was inclined to support the 48. In this episode they concentrate on the differences between the sovereign and the British prime minister. On this there were obvious differences.The Queen was dedicated to the Commonwealth, one of the most important missions of her reign. Thatcher was not keen on it, and preferred to focus on good relations with the United States. On this issue Thatcher saw no merit in sanctions, believing that they hardened opposition rather than reduced it. The episode ends with one of the explanatory captions they sometimes employ — Nelson Mandela ending apartheid and crediting sanctions with making that possible.Did the Queen wish the world to know that she thought Thatcher was “uncaring”, and was she therefore responsible for placing a story in The Sunday Times expressing this?❌ FALSEHere they paint the Queen’s press secretary, Michael Shea, as an honourable man who would never betray the Queen or in any way impugn her political impartiality. In this episode, set in July 1986, the Queen tells Shea that just for once she wants her views known. Therefore, unwillingly apparently, he talks to journalists and the story breaks in The Sunday Times with the (real) headline. “Queen Dismayed by ‘Uncaring’ Thatcher”. The ensuing furore is such that Sir Martin Charteris (who in real life had long retired, remember) sacrifices Shea, telling him to resign and take the blame because a scalp is needed to divert the media from the Queen.The reverse was the case. Shea took it upon himself to talk to The Sunday Times. He then denied that he had done so, and when finally forced to own up, stated that he had been misrepresented. The Palace got rid of him by securing him a job with Hanson plc. What Shea had done was to relay his personal dislike of Thatcher’s policies to the world.The story of Shea has been exposed by many distinguished authors, not least Charles Moore in his authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher.Episode 9Was Prince Charles irritated by Diana’s surprise dance with Wayne Sleep at Covent Garden in 1985, which she intended as his 37th birthday gift?✅ TRUEThere was a private gala at Covent Garden in December 1985 (for some reason they say November, and no it wasn’t for his birthday) and at a certain point Diana slipped away and suddenly appeared on stage with Wayne Sleep and danced to Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl. This was meant to be a gift to her husband, but he took it amiss (an incident omitted from Dimbleby’s authorised biography). Sleep got the impression that Prince Charles was somewhat put out, instead of touched. In this episode Charles berates Diana with some ferocity.Did the tragic avalanche in Klosters in 1988 in which Hugh Lindsay was killed impact on the Waleses’ marriage to the point that Charles decided that he had to get out of it while Diana was determined that it should continue?❌ FALSEOn a holiday in Klosters, Prince Charles, Hugh Lindsay (an equerry to the Queen and his friend), a respected guide and Patty Palmer-Tomkinson went skiing off-piste. They encountered an avalanche in which Major Lindsay lost his life. According to this episode, the tragedy inspires Prince Charles to the conclusion that he wants to get out of his marriage and unite with Camilla, even though she is still married. Meanwhile, Diana declares that Charles’s near death makes her realise how much she would have missed him, so she declares that she wants to make it work.There is mention of the affair she had with James Hewitt and they suggest that she has dropped him. In fact, it wasn’t until 1992 that Prince Charles considered separation. And in real life the Princess of Wales blamed Prince Charles for this accident by taking Lindsay off-piste. She refused ever to return to Klosters and was dismayed that he did.Were Charles and Camilla meeting regularly at Highgrove by 1988?✅ TRUEAccording to the evidence, Charles and Camilla were seeing each other again by 1986. This series takes the Diana line that Charles and Camilla were in touch all the way through the marriage. Viewers should be cautious to accept this without question. They will see an angry Prince Charles, sometimes yelling at his wife, aggressive and demeaning to her. What is largely omitted is any account of Diana’s well-documented distressing behaviour, including tantrums and insecurities. The Crown clearly presents a one-sided portrait of the marriage.Were there several meetings between the Queen and the Waleses to discuss the crumbling marriage?❌ FALSEVarious meetings are shown in which the Queen discusses the predicament in which the Waleses found themselves and tells them to pull themselves together. In reality these did not take place. Until Prince Charles realised that Diana had been directly involved in the publication of Morton’s book, Diana – Her True Story, in the summer of 1992, he maintained a façade, and the hope that there was a way for the marriage to continue in some way or another.The Dimbleby line on this was that the royal family were aware of “the princess’s distress”, but did not wish to interfere. So there was no summit meeting with the Queen, Prince Philip and the Waleses until June 1992.Episode 10Did Thatcher try to get the Queen to dissolve parliament to save her skin at the time of the leadership crisis in 1990?❌ FALSEOf course Thatcher did no such thing. It is well known that when Geoffrey Howe resigned and delivered his devastating resignation piece (faithfully shown by The Crown), Thatcher faced a challenge to her leadership from Michael Heseltine. The outfall for that is well shown — the meetings with ministers, her gradual realisation that she must go, but then they introduce this nonsense.In The Crown they have her telling Denis that she has one card up her sleeve. So she goes to see the Queen and asks her to dissolve parliament and therefore call a general election. Theoretically she could have done that, and technically the Queen could refuse. But it never happened, nor would it have done.Was the Queen angry when Thatcher was ousted by her ministers in 1990?✅ TRUEThere is a genuinely moving scene in The Crown in which the Queen summons Thatcher to see her, and she presents her with the Order of Merit. I remember being told at the time that the Queen was not pleased by the way they got rid of Thatcher. So the line “I was shocked by the way in which you were forced to leave office” is spot-on. People have persisted in thinking the Queen and Thatcher did not get on. The Order of Merit is in her personal gift, as is clearly explained here, and her gift of it is evidence of her respect for her first female prime minister. Thatcher was surprised and delighted to be offered it.If further evidence is required, the Queen appointed her a Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter in 1995 — again her personal gift. She attended her 70th and 80th birthday parties and was present at her funeral in St Paul’s Cathedral in 2013. The only other prime minister whose funeral the Queen has attended was that of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965.Did Prince Philip try to comfort Diana during a miserable Christmas at Sandringham, then threaten her that it “wouldn’t end well” if she left her marriage?❌ FALSEIt is true that by 1990 Sandringham Christmases were something of a strain for Diana, but she was there to be with her boys. In this episode Prince Philip visits her in her room for a comforting conversation. She tells him that if Prince Charles and the royal family can’t give her the love and security she deserves, then she will have no option but to break away officially. He advises her not to with the ominous words: “Let’s just say — I can’t see it ending well for you.” To which she responds: “I hope that isn’t a threat, sir.”In truth, the real Prince Philip did intervene to help Diana, but not until the summer of 1992, when the royal marriage became a crisis after Morton’s book. There was an exchange of letters between them. He did everything he could to find a way to keep the marriage intact. There was not a hint of a threat in any of them (I have read them).The Queen is shown in several episodes in a magnificent uniform for various Birthday Parades (Trooping the Colour). Did they get that right?❌ FALSEIn the opening sequence of The Crown the Queen is shown in the uniform of colonel-in-chief, Grenadier Guards — a grenade on the collar, a white plume in her cap and buttons in ones. She wears the Garter riband and star. It pops up in several episodes.The first trooping portrayed was June 1979, when it was the colour of the Scots Guards being trooped, so they have dressed her in the wrong uniform — it should have been a thistle on the collar, no plume, and buttons in threes. When the Scots Guards colour is trooped, she wears the dark green riband and star of the Thistle. At the 1979 trooping Prince Philip also wore the green Thistle riband. In The Crown he wears the Garter.At the 1982 trooping the Queen is shown riding along as a grenadier again, so a grenade on the collar, and buttons in ones. But this time they give her the plume of the Welsh Guards (white/green/white). It should have been a Coldstream Guards uniform, a Garter star on the collar, a red plume and buttons in twos. With their massive budget and their various advisers, the film-makers could so easily have tweaked these and got them right.In real life the Queen had five separate Guards uniforms, one for each of the five regiments of which she was colonel-in-chief — Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh (in that order).