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Why would they expect a woman who was not a subject of the queen to curtsy?Īnd I certainly don't remember the Kennedys having the kind of relationship with each other that this series portrays. Someone in the scene said sotto voce as though shocked "she didn't curtsy." That struck me as particularly odd. In the scene when the Kennedys are first introduced to the queen, one thing especially caught my attention. That must have been during his " ich bin ein berliner" visit to Germany. Politics and royalty figured not at all.Īnd I don't remember the Kennedys going to England. Of course in the 60s when I was paying attention to the Brits, it was the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Twiggy. It's interesting to me to realize that the woman I always thought of as 'grandmotherly' and 'dowdy' with her purses and hats that looked like a hydrangea on her head wasn't always all that old. I suppose because the series actually focuses on Elizabeth's own activities and those political crises were in her father's time rather than hers. What I know of British activities in India and Israel/Palestine during the late 40s is more than they discussed in the series at all. The second season covers times that you'd think I'd remember, but I guess I wasn't paying attention. So I knew little of Britain's colonial activities in the Middle East. I may have been alive during Elizabeth II's reign so far, but I've been much more vested in American goings-on than in Britain's. I probably know more about Elizabethan English history than I do about modern British history. If you pay attention, you'll see several actors from Downton.īoth seasons of The Crown are filled with opulent homes and furnishings and, what to me were unusual and on occasion mean-spirited, formalities that the Royals had to live with. It filled Downton Abbey's place in my television viewing life quite nicely. So much so, in fact, that I looked forward to the second season with great anticipation. I watched that first season and enjoyed it thoroughly. The second season begins in 1956 with England's problems in Egypt and runs through 1964. The first season was about Queen Elizabeth's life beginning with her marriage to Prince Philip in 1947 and running through 1955. He is probably more famous for being the eleventh Doctor in the long-running BBC series Doctor Who. (Please note: drama not documentary.)Ĭlaire Foy plays Elizabeth, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
The Crown created and written by Peter Morgan and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix, is a biographical drama about Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain.
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