The Crown

As her marriage falls apart, Princess Margaret finds solace in the arms of a much younger landscape gardener. The Queen and the nation celebrate Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee.

God, no.

What makes you think that will happen?

but I can never remember, so I call her the Thing.

and the surgeons, no, the butchers, no, sorry, the murderers

is that he can survive until the next election in the autumn.

No more access to Crown property.

Why do you always, always take his side?

- I hate them. - Why don't you come here, ma'am?

You must know his brother, Dai.

No, they're going for lunch, while we go shopping.

- What size are you? - Uh, small.

Do you? I imagine you must have an army of gardeners.

Hmm. Hmm! Perfect.

Things work themselves out in the end.

- But you are one. You're a little boy... - Steady.

♪ Well, no one told me about her ♪

Happiness, dear.

in a way that will still protect your name.

I'm desperate for you to leave. Desperate.

what is a princess for?

No shock lasts longer than 48 hours.

The amount of nitrazepam the princess took

Which, I'm afraid to say, will lead to divorce.

This country was still great when I came to the throne, and now look.

While a government stalemate with mineworkers leads to nationwide power cuts, Charles's family intervenes in his deepening relationship with Camilla.

Just remember "acting lieutenant" doesn't mean you're in a bloody play.

- What is it? - No peeking.

The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.

Then it will end in defeat and humiliation for the mineworkers.

It was love at first sight.

Mon petit chou.

Tell me, is there any part of all this that's...

None of this was supposed to happen.

I'm not the only interested party.

Let alone nurture thoughts of...

Well, let's talk for a minute about "grand rooms like this."

But I have chosen democracy, unlike you,

the Prime Minister has come up with a scheme

about the grave emergency now facing our country.

All of us.

to take two people who are perfectly happy together

Everyone was getting what they wanted and needed from the arrangement.

that truly love one another.

♪ Da, da, da, da, da ♪

Specifically, the suitability of his match with Camilla Shand.

He got what he wanted, which was to make Camilla jealous.

It would only create rancor and resentment,

I don't know where to begin.

Then why have we allowed them to do this?

I do begin to wonder whether we really have taken the right course of action.

by blood, kinship and trust.

but it is a battle worth fighting

As Charles begins dating Camilla Shand, Elizabeth considers visiting an ill Duke of Windsor in Paris, whose destiny changed when he met Wallis Simpson.

we didn't agree to this visit for the conversation.

- I don't want you to get hurt. - What makes you think I would?

Coming straight through, looking confident,

And the Duke of Windsor?

He keeps telling me to find a wife.

Please.

Labour took the British people for granted.

the question might be asked,

♪ Played it hard and fast 'Cause I had everything ♪

It's the thing you most...

And he actually wants to be drafted, because it will give his life meaning.

Its occupants today need no introduction.

And then finally the day came.

Both of them. Monstrous.

Not them playing with us.

She's on her way.

and I know why you think it.

I can't do that. It's a private correspondence.

It's a rare thing that fate should allow

then I shall do so on my own terms...

The 1969 moon landing occasions a mid-life crisis in Prince Philip, who thinks of the adventures he has missed as the Queen's consort.

Oh, and church tomorrow is at nine, not ten.

what a lot of dreary nonsense the dean is talking and why doesn't he shut up.

Neil Armstrong reporting the rolling pitch program, which puts...

where you have been asked to present an award.

if I could make a request to use one of them.

- And tell the Queen, please. Thank you. - Sir.

Slightest impact with rock or crater could disable the lunar module...

- The Eagle has landed. - Man on the moon.

The LM footpads are only depressed in the surface about one or two inches,

And I think this new perspective, seeing the Earth from space,

The race for the moon is over.

- I prefer center of recovery and renewal. - Well, I'm sure you do.

- How do you do, Your Royal Highness? - Good morning.

Insight.

simply an unknowable vastness.

That is why you are all so... so lost.

If you do opt for action, you can start by cleaning up this bloody floor.

Instead of being herded in with everyone else,

I just want to say how much I admire what you've done.

There comes a time in life when one first really starts to evaluate

We pretty much spent our entire time with lists in our hands,

- I know. You know what it was? - What?

Because we heard you had a thousand rooms.

In reality, they were just three little men.

knowing it could reveal who they actually are,

Now, of course, that's... that's nothing new.

That... that crisis.

That is what faithlessness is.

deserve all our praise and respect for their undoubted heroism,

Prince Charles is sent to Aberystwyth to learn Welsh from an ardent nationalist in preparation for the ceremony for his investiture as Prince of Wales.

Trust me, you wouldn't like it in reality.

and by the Welsh, in Welsh!

We have a special visitor coming to Aberystwyth this term to learn Welsh.

We were told you had a certain technique.

This could be a huge step for our movement.

My politics are the reason why I walk through the door every day,

for the conquests of your Crown, and why, one might ask?

Bore da.

- What? - Isn't that what the Celts are like?

I'm sure he'll forgive us this more bespoke welcome

How is the speech going?

Hah, hay, hee, hay, hah,

And so one of the last fully Welsh-speaking villages in the land

They kindly sent me an invitation to attend the investiture.

- Shh! Keep the noise down! - to be welcomed to Wales...

and heal divisions, not inflict them on your own family.

We have all made sacrifices and suppressed who we are.

While the Queen travels abroad to learn about horse training, unhappiness among the British elite with the devaluation of the pound involves Lord Mountbatten in a plan to oust Harold Wilson.

one of the chief architects of the invasion of occupied Europe,

What am I going to do, Barratt?

♪ For auld lang syne ♪

Ten minutes to Newmarket.

- Apprentice turns up the pressure... - Come on!

If you want to keep up with the Aga Khans of this world,

But now is not the time to attribute blame.

and reduces to cinders the very foundation of our economy, our currency.

Where the old flotilla lay,

to express my sympathy at the way you've been treated by the government.

- What would you say? Six months? - Mm, yes, I'd say so.

You don't think I should go there, too?

A pariah.

In peacetime, it's true,

Sir.

we had every chance of success at the highest level.

been 73 coups in 46 different countries around the world,

for which you need the fourth element, the loyalty of the military.

The courts, body of common law, the constitution.

to dismiss his government in the face of opposition from the House.

that someone else was born to do, that they elected not to do,

Prime Minister?

but to side with the republican elements of my Cabinet,

who are horrified by what's happening to the country.

Hmm! These days, I've nothing but time.

- Don't sound so surprised. - I am. It's been so long.

Left without a home by a political coup in Athens, Philip's eccentric mother, Princess Alice of Greece, is invited to live in Buckingham Palace by the Queen.

Is this creating an awkward situation, sir?

International call, please. London, England.

- And now they're asking for more! More! - Outrageous!

The fact that, generally, you're good value for money.

to prove to everyone out there what we in here already know.

The government has fallen,

Well, we can't afford to have my mother jeopardize this film.

Please, this way.

That people might watch us

That'd be easier if there was something remotely amusing to watch.

Hello, dear.

Tell us more about Greece. Is Greece in trouble today?

- Your Majesty. - Oh.

That is all about to change.

The Queen Mother, too, carries out many public engagements.

Although the Queen and Prince Philip are often separated from their children,

We wake up in the morning, go to bed at night.

The best we've come up with so far is ritual and mystery.

it has somehow achieved the opposite.

Because, in the light of all this criticism,

I was born in Windsor Castle.

marginalized and underestimated.

All this time, I've been trying to keep you out of sight of the cameras,

A horrible disaster in the Welsh town of Aberfan leaves scores of children dead, but when the Queen takes a week to decide to visit the town to offer solace to its people, she must confront her reasons for postponing the trip.

- Bevan? - Sir.

Quickly!

so that the PM can visit the site of the tragedy later today.

turned enough of the coal waste inside the tip into slurry

This could turn nasty very quickly.

It was a disaster waiting to happen, and no one listened.

"and to the families of those who have lost their lives."

Mechanical diggers are out of action,

The Crown doesn't do that.

Let us be quite clear.

to be crucified on the altar of public opinion

You're pathetic! You disgust me!

♪ Other refuge have I none ♪

They sang. The whole community.

is symptomatic of a lack of care from the traditional establishment,

by Sir Cennydd Traherne, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan,

who managed to rescue one of the grandchildren.

Each of them would have had the courage to express their anger to me directly.

They deserved a display of compassion,

a moment of such significance for every mother...

No one needs hysteria from a head of state.

♪ Leave, oh, leave me not alone ♪

While Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon visit the USA, the queen, at the bidding of Harold Wilson, asks them to make a side trip to Washington, D.C. to ask President Johnson for financial assistance for the United Kingdom.

Just come to wish you a bon voyage and to thank you.

"Be good to one another. Kind to one another. Both of you."

Welcome aboard this BOAC flight to San Francisco.

...in the past,

We love you, Princess Margaret!

Yes, ma'am.

In the course of our marriage, I have lost count of the number of times

Small-mindedness.

I get so little limelight.

you want me to be.

followed by a long drive...

at the Science Museum,

in miles and miles of wide-open desert.

what an asset to the Crown, how underused you are,

that if you have a quarrel with the Prime Minister,

The buck stops with me.

Prime Minister for you, ma'am.

to win over hearts and minds to the British cause.

The most recent list of people attending the dinner,

What we need is a bailout of at least £1,000 million.

It would relegate sterling to the second division of the world's currencies

Some of them, I'm afraid to say, a little off-color.

I believe everyone thought that was long enough. As it were.

I'd specifically begged her not to be.

as to what to give you to show our appreciation.

Margaret does suffer more than anyone else by not having a more meaningful role.

alongside that dull, dutiful, reliable, heroic strain

and yours, ma'am, will be from the wings.

The royal family mourns the passing of Winston Churchill. The United Kingdom ushers in a new prime minister, the Labour Party's Harold Wilson whom Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth hear might be a Soviet spy.

But, somehow, Harold Wilson had to inspire the electorate

You do know, if that man wins today, he'll want us out.

Nervous exhaustion.

♪ And lady luck played her hand Just right ♪

If I am to say a few words,

Speaking of enigmas, what do we make of Mr. Wilson?

♪ ...fabulous flights ♪

♪ Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer ♪

and an annual trade deficit of £800 million.

and thinking how odd it looked.

But Wilson is neither old nor young,

Is there any food left, or have you eaten it all? Your Majesty.

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

Sir, the CIA'S Director of Counterintelligence on the phone.

He claims to be a sleeper agent working for the Russians.

and to the cause of freedom.

and it was during this time that I was first approached

What? We can't do that.

We don't have a Russian spy in Downing Street?

seemed full of hidden intentions, multiple meanings.

The message encoded in the painting is repeated in reality.

an enemy of this country, to remain free, with his career and reputation intact,

but that we are able to make sense of it all,

which turned out to have another person lurking beneath the surface.

What you see is what you get.

But doing the... the right thing,

but it was rumored to be a senior member of the royal family.