LONDON – For Anglo-Saxon critics among the best soap on the small screen. Thanks to the global Netflix market, among the most watched. If on the one hand the fourth season of The Crown a panacea in times of lockdown, the Windsors are likely to like it less than previous editions. The plot reached the recent past. The drama covers the period from 1979 to 1990, times that many remember well: the violence of the IRA, the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher and, above all, Diana.
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It is she, the people’s princess, as Tony Blair defined her, the real protagonist of the new season. Diana’s shadow is never far from the real chronicles, as seen on the occasion of Harry and Meghan’s decision to move to the US or the much media material on the relationship between William and his brother. Yet, nearly a quarter of a century after his death, the Windsors have found their balance. Carlo is happily married to Camilla, the woman he has loved since he was very young and with whom, by his own admission, he has repeatedly betrayed the Princess of Wales. The drama will make the public relive the stormy years of a marriage that was born badly and ended worse and will refresh the memory of one of the darkest chapters of the relationship between the country and its royalty: the death of Lady D, the detachment, coldness and inflexibility shown by the Windsors in the days immediately following the tragic accident in Paris on August 31, 1997.
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Here ten reasons for which the fourth season of The Crown could prove problematic for the Windsors.
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1) Diana, as a joyful girl, a sad princess
The season opens with the first meeting between Carlo and Diana. The future Princess of Wales is only 16 years old. He’s in a mask. At school he is rehearsing for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Carlo meets her when he goes to visit Diana’s sister Sarah Spencer, with whom he had a brief affair.
2) Diana initially liked the royals, then she was left alone
The first real test for Diana is the visit to Balmoral, an exam that passes with flying colors. Diana likes all royalty. Prince Philip strongly advises his son to marry her. When the engagement is announced, Diana moves to the palace, where she suffers from loneliness and suffers from bulimia. He discovers that Carlo continues to see Camilla and tries to warn the queen that the marriage must be canceled. Nobody listens to it.
3) Carlo and Camilla
The two continue dating despite their respective marriages. It is with Camilla that Carlo feels at ease. It is with her that he knows happiness. The prince spends more and more time in Highgrove, which Diana doesn’t like.
4) The betrayals
If Charles betrays Diana, Diana makes up for Major James Hewitt. The queen asks her son and wife to give up their extramarital love affairs, but Diana returns to the major’s arms when she realizes that Charles cannot say goodbye to Camilla.
5) Carlo’s jealousy
Everyone likes Diana: in Australia, a country that seems to be about to break away from the crown, she conquers the public. She is more successful than her husband. Carlo is jealous, as he will later be during his visit to the USA, where Diana finds a way to reinvent the role of royalty by taking an interest in forgotten communities.
6) The wealth of royalty and the poverty of the people
The years of Thatcherism represented an impoverishment of the country’s welfare machinery. Those who lived on subsidies end up on the street and a stone’s throw from Buckingham Palace urban decay advances, like desperation. Michael Fagan, unemployed who loses custody of his children, enters Buckingham Palace twice, coming to sit on Elizabeth’s bed while the Queen sleeps.
7) The Windsor’s passion for hunting
From pheasants to deer, the Windsors don’t hold back and pursue their victims with gory determination.
8) The snobbery
Margaret Thatcher defined the daughter of a shopkeeper by Prince Philip, she and her husband are teased because they show up dressed for dinner as early as 6pm, Diana is mocked by Margaret and the Queen Mother because she misses the sequence of bows to do at the Windsors .
9) Elizabeth as a mother
Elizabeth in the fourth season she doesn’t seem particularly close to her children. Try to communicate with them but the emotional bond is absent and, as Charles says, to the crown that the queen has sworn to serve all her life
10) Andrea and his scandals
At breakfast with his mother, the prince brags about his relationship with Koo Stark and the red-light film starring the actress (who later became a photographer) about a teenage girl molested by older men. To those who follow the royal chronicles, this will seem a reference to the scandal in which Prince Andrew is still involved. He is accused of having been part of the American financier Jeffrey Epstein’s circle of pedophiles and molesters.
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November 15, 2020 (change November 15, 2020 | 09:15)
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