The character of Tommy Lascells, the queen’s personal secretary, who served her father before her, and even earlier his brother, who strictly adhered to the protocol in the royal family, is in the series the personification of the apparatus of officials who together with Windsors form the so-called “Company”.
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During the interview, Harry and Meghan gave the impression that the Company, this many-headed creature, maintained the dictates of tradition in Buckingham Palace. Because of him, it seems unthinkable for members of the royal family to divorce, as the series shows, or to decide freely about their everyday life, as Meghan claims. It describes a period when the Company did not allow it to appear in public due to the pressure of the boulevard, and in the end it did not comply with its wish to get mental health professionals out of the home in difficult times. Harry, meanwhile, listened to questions about the future child’s skin color.
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It’s only been a few months since Netflix released its fourth series Crowns, in which Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, struggles with the loneliness of the life of a member of the royal family, depression and bulimia. She also described this period of her life in a television interview.
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Just how family members deal with the feeling of “trapped in the system”, as Harry put it, is the main theme of the series.
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Interview prince Harryho a Meghan s Oprah Winfreyovou
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The interview with Oprah thus seems almost like a trailer for one of the other series, in which frustrated millennials, after experiencing depression, turn to their families for help, fail, and so they decide to take care of their mental health overseas.
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Tracking Crowns Even the current relationships in the royal family, which in today’s pop culture era largely coincide, force us all to express political views and reveal a piece of our own personality, if we are to formulate whose side we stand on. According to a survey published in The Economist, the younger British consider Harry and Meghan’s statement to be credible. Older people consider them whistlers who do not understand their role, or liars. As in almost all social conflicts today, identity and generational dispute play a major role here.
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The royal family is another canvas on which we can paint. We can easily find our own avatar in it – it provides a senior with incorrect humor and a young emancipated woman.
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Táňa Zabloudilová (1985) is a cultural journalist.
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The core of the real problem is probably the same as that of Diana, Princess Margaret, and in fact all the members of the royal family: they all came across their Lascells.
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Meghan and Harry responded to the traditional royal “we all endured, you can endure it” move to sunny, liberal California. However, Edward VIII decided to leave the royal family, and the popularity of the monarchy was shaken by the divorce of Charles and Diana. Few people today expect to be due to two millennials Crown eventually she changed her main theme.
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