T4.E7

The Hereditary Principle

El episodio se emitió el 15 nov 2020
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50min

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Helena Bonham Carter and Josh O'Connor in The Crown (2016)

Añade un argumento en tu idiomaGrappling with mental health issues, Margaret seeks help and discovers an appalling secret about estranged relatives of the royal family.Grappling with mental health issues, Margaret seeks help and discovers an appalling secret about estranged relatives of the royal family.Grappling with mental health issues, Margaret seeks help and discovers an appalling secret about estranged relatives of the royal family.

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10rrtiverton

Tour de force by Helen Bonham Carter!

Wow! Blown away by her performance as Margaret! Incredible! Awesome story!

9Waldorf-1979

Helena Bonham-Carter saves one episode

An important topic well written paired with the best actress in the series make this episode the best of the season, by far.

7dierregi

Saved by HBC

As usual the episodes focussing on Margaret make for the best viewing. Maybe because she was so deeply flawed and also because HBC is great in the role, although she looks nothing like Margaret. She plays the inner core of the princess, more than the real person.

Margaret is worried about her mental sanity and she gets some bad news. On a side note, although I agree about the fact that wealthy families should do better with their unfortunate members, I wonder how many actually feel responsible for their cousins.

Especially when you come from a huge family (in the past people tended to have several children so one might end up with over 20 cousins and never even know some of them).

9Hitchcoc

Lineage

This focuses almost entirely on Margaret. She has begun to spiral downward and, for the first time, is aware of her mental stability. She has always been an enigma. What happens here is a search through the records to find people with mental handicaps who are part of the royal family, but who have been institutionalized to keep people from thinking badly of the "inbreeding" of the family. This strains the conscience of Margaret and she goes on a quest in order to solidity her own piece of mind.

7bobcobb301

The Hereditary Principle

A well-done episode that tackled an important topic for the monarchy that is still relevant today.

Curiosidades
Derek 'Dazzle' Jennings was a senior civil servant in the British Government's Department of the Environment who decided to become a priest at age 38. Jennings remained Margaret's friend and spiritual advisor until the end of his life in 1995, with Margaret visiting his sickbed in his final days.

Pifias
The institutionalization of the Bowes-Lyon sisters, Katherine (Trudie Emery) and Nerissa (Pauline Hendrickson), had nothing to do with the Crown. John "Jock" Bowes-Lyon, the brother of Elizabeth, future Queen Mother (Marion Bailey), died six years before Edward VIII's abdication, and they were placed in the Royal Earlswood Hospital by their mother Fenella in 1941, five years after King George VI ascended the throne. Princess Margaret (Helena Bonham Carter) played no part in discovering the sisters' existence, nor did she confront her mother on the subject.

Citas
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: Then the way things suddenly changed for all of us, none of us could have foreseen it.
Princess Margaret: It? What's it?
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: Well, the abdication...
Princess Margaret: No! Not everything that is wrong with this family can be explained away by the abdication.
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: Well, the abdication *did* change everything. You were too young to understand. Everything. It's complicated.
Princess Margaret: No, it's not! It's wicked, and it's cold-hearted, and it's cruel. And it's entirely in keeping with the ruthlessness I myself have experienced in this family. If you're not first in line, if you're an individual character with individual needs, and God forbid an irregular temperament... If, if you don't fit the perfect mold of... silent, dutiful supplication, then you'll be spat out, or you'll be hidden away, or, worse, declared dead! Darwin had nothing on you lot. Shame on all of you.