But Will There Be Corgis? Thread Where We Discuss Netflix's THE CROWN

lol just spent ten mins rewinding and replaying to see if helena BC is actually playing the piano -- if she *is* she's OK pub-pianist boogiewoogie level tho i *suspect* it's a dummy keyboard and someone else is suppyling the sounds as she sings along and silently but with good rhythm-sense bashes chord-like shapes (by my eye she's not actually doing the left hand stridework we're hearing, but my eye might be wrong)

additional discussion: https://www.fanpop.com/clubs/helena-bonham-carter/picks/results/32197/can-helena-bonham-carter-play-piano

no way to know i guess what pub-level princess margaret was

Noel Coward's verdict: "Surprisingly good, she has an impeccable ear, her piano playing is simple but has perfect rhythm and her method of singing is really very funny."

tbf she had a lot of spare time in which to practice

maybe but she doesn't seem the type to spend her spare time doing something so ungratifying in the short term! but i guess we know some of her relatives put a lot of practice work into things that are physically tricky (like show jumping) (and polo i guess!), so the right kinds of habit of self-discipline are there in the family round her

i'm less surprised when royals are good comic performers -- it's an extension of their actual jobs in a way, putting normies (and statesmen) their at ease. but "impeccable ear" is high (and interesting) praise!

Isn't it the sort of thing you'd say if you were hoping to suck up to Princess Margaret, though?

then you'd say "unsurprisingly good" !

(i assumed this was in some diary not for her eyes or similar, if it was to her face then it's obviously much less interesting and reliable, yes)

It was a diary entry, yeah

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Rumour reached me that Shirley Temple even invited the fool to preach at Windsor Chapel. Can you imagine the banality of those exchanges? The Smugness, self-congratulation and hypocrisy. What a grotesque occasion that must have been.

Edward VIII would have made a cracking ilxer!

I'm psyched for the class masochism of watching series 4 tbh

Season 4 starts this Sunday 😃😃😃
*insert corgi barking*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiXEpminPms

If there isn't an entire episode recreating It's A Royal Knockout in Larry Sanders onscreen/bts style, no sale.

lol

fyi USA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97ZMC8cV3to

warning: it cannot be unseen

Season 4 now up ie WE HAVE CORGI SIGN

it peaks in the first ep this season (Dickie gets a pressie from the RA and his head gets launched into the stratosphere). And this sub-plot of 29 year old Charles grooming a schoolgirl looks a bit of a dead-end!

I fell sleep during ep 2. Too much Charles is a big turn off. Although I lolled at Dennis Thatcher.

I'm going to watch another ep later because I want see who plays Willie Whitelaw!

calzino otm, I was expecting them to save dickie’s fate for at least a little later!

Charles Dance must’ve been costing a fortune or something

they should be more judicious with their timelining, they've completely bypassed punk and killed off one of the top actors in it. When G.O.T. killed off too many of the better actors it soon turned into unwatchable shite!

although to hell with the late 70's tbh

making the Thatchers into drab but sympathetically unpretentious characters, whilst getting sucked into the Balmoral freakshow was fun but problematic. Because we all know Thatcher was satan!

there is an appealing comical sort of chemistry between Anderson and the actor who plays Denis, but it annoys me because I end up feeling the need for self-flagellation for liking fictional versions of evil and bad people!

I’m 2 eps in and like it so far, Scully’s Thatcher is a bit .. distracting? it all feels a bit much idk thatcher never seemed much like an actual person irl though anyway and still doesnt here, honestly fine keeping it that way

Dennis is v lol

got a perverse glee from Margaret telling off Thatcher for sitting in Queen Vicky’s chair lol

Young Diana is quite uncanny at times

Denis T always seemed a bit like bit of a comic suburban caricature irl

lol at that angry class warrior M Thatcher, pwning the Queen by quoting chartist poetry!

Scriptwriters better have included the Lord Mountbatten shampoo joke or gtf.

I loved the sequence in S3 where he is butthurt after the Labour govt sacks him as chief of defence and he is getting embroiled in the military coup plot against Wilson and the Queen tells him to sit the fuck down, perhaps it was best he got his dandruff sorted - his character was becoming a bit stale!

i loved it when the Queen tells off old toffs, it’s always v good, Dickie no exception

Camilla v Diana lunch is very much my shit

making the Thatchers into drab but sympathetically unpretentious characters,

Strongly disagree on the idea that they are sympathetic. I think GA is coming across as completely unhinged, which is as it should be. During the Balmoral visit, I definitely hated all sides equally. I was a bit disappointed with how heavy-handedly they played compare and contrast between the Thatchers' visit and Diana's. Yes, yes, we get it. Although I did like the little detail of her telling Phil that she loves the country and then telling Camilla that she hates it.

yes that was v good

Tickled by what a piece of shit Mark Thatcher is

nose to tail

Andrew & Edward:

HEY GUYS WE’RE FINALLY IN IT
...
oh. huh.
WAIT THAT wasn’t—-ok nvm

i dont know if the “Edward was gifted a chilled bottle of white wine/piss by his classmates ” is true but the idea of it really gave me a happiness i never knew existed

Richard Roxburgh as Bob Hawke!
I’ll drink to that lovely bit of casting

was hoping for Ginger Spice as Fergie.

The flying paedo or piss-boy - choose your fighter!

the too on the nose to be true segment with Diane/Camilla going for a meal together at a restaurant called Ménage à Trois is actually 100% true - believe it or not.

It was really popular with Sloanes of a certain type because iirc it only served starters and puddings!

just absolutely ideal for people with eating disorders obv!

Between Diana moping about the place and Margaret's days stretching out like an empty void, you wonder why nobody in the royal family can read a book.

going in on this tonight STOKED FOR THE MAJNESS

tbh I thought the best ep in ages was the one about Fagan the palace intruder.

going in on this tonight STOKED FOR THE MAJNESS

Me too. Hoping for a corgi orgy

watching a couple of eps of ANCIENT ALIENS in studious preparation