王冠第一季

对英国历史只了解到皮毛的我，长久以来满足于知道温莎公爵就是那位不爱江山爱美人的英国国王。

当要迎娶有过三段婚史的美国女人不被皇室、教会和国会允许后，他毅然放弃王位。

对温莎公爵的好感，还迁移于此地皇权更迭时频频出现的恶斗。

此地常常为了一个皇帝的位子争斗得六亲不认兵戎相见，彼地却可以为了爱情舍弃王位，对于不懂得皇位或者王位到底至尊到何种地步的我来说，对温莎公爵的感佩真是难以言表。

但是，英剧《王冠》第一季却告诉我们，温莎公爵不是我们认识的那个样子。

不，应该先说，在大英帝国一个男人放弃王位他所得到的社会评价并不如我们想象的那样，是个轻权势重感情的好人。

要与心爱的女人一起浪迹天涯、与治下的百姓相忘于江湖，在《王冠》看来，无论是玛丽王后、伊丽莎白二世的母亲，到丘吉尔为首的英国政府以及教会，都认定温莎公爵是一个懦弱的没有责任心的男人，甚至，乔治国王病死后，王后怪罪温莎公爵，就是因为他的任性将约克公爵逼上了王位，让老实简朴勤奋的乔治国王累死在了王位上。

原来，彼邦对王位的态度跟此地我们对皇位的态度是大相径庭呀。

即便如此，我也还是愿意仰头看着他，一个为了爱情可以放弃江山的男人，我们这些格局小的人，到底是欣赏的。

然而，等到第一季10集《王冠》全部看完，恐怕没有人再会喜欢温莎公爵了。

他出场，是在乔治国王病逝以后，一副“我将国王让给你们”的还乡团的模样。

等到得知人们对他放弃王位只有谴责没有赞美的时候，抱怨开始从他的内心汩汩而出。

对那个女人，他是真爱呀，虽然厮守在美国过上了奢华的生活，短期回英国参加侄女的婚礼、弟弟的葬礼、母亲的葬礼、侄女的登基典礼，他都要给不得不留在美国的妻子写上一封喋喋不休的长信，信里，他说皇室就是一个勾心斗角的场所，他说从弟弟开始，“秀兰·邓波儿”（伊丽莎白二世）、“小饼干”（王后）等等都是压榨他的人……他在给妻子的长信里贬斥皇室的同时，跟皇室、政府、教会甚至自己的母亲在一起的时候，永远都在讨价还价，向玛丽王后抱怨的目的是让母亲帮忙为他讨要到更多的生活费，跟丘吉尔互探底细是为了得到丘吉尔政府的帮助从而获得更多的钱财，对侄女伊丽莎白二世撒娇一样地诉苦目的也是为了多要一些钱——在美国的日子已经奢侈惯了不得不想尽办法弄钱弄钱弄钱，可是回转身来马上在写给妻子的信里对帮助过他的人恶语相向，这个男人的品性，实在让人鄙夷。

想要看伊丽莎白二世是怎么一步步走上王位又是怎么运用女性特有的手段牢牢把控了王位半个多世纪的，却看到了它扒了温莎公爵的皮，一个在心里站立了数十年的一往情深男人的形象，轰然倒塌，这让我在赞美《王冠》拍得大气、典雅的时候有些迟疑。

幸亏，它给了温莎公爵一个优雅的退场仪式：通过电视收看完侄女的登基仪式后，温莎公爵走出豪宅独自一人站在花园里吹响苏格兰风笛。

伤感的音乐中，我们看见，形象俊逸的温莎公爵泪眼模糊——英国人真不给王室脸面，就算做国王不到一年，他也是英国历史上的一位国王，怎么可以扒皮到如此境地？

为了重塑温莎公爵在我心里的地位，看完《王冠》四处寻找温莎公爵在退位以后的作为，才发现，英国人是小骂大帮忙。

问家里要些钱，顶多是贪得无厌的泼皮样子。

如果《王冠》实事求是地告诉我们，温莎公爵所娶的那个女人是个纳粹的狂热追随者、温莎公爵在成为她的丈夫后也一时与纳粹打得火热并试图希望纳粹帮助他重夺王位，温莎公爵留给世人的，就不是骂名那么简单了。

如题,2022重看这部剧,感触和几年前太不一样了.这挺好.说明这几年看的书没白看啊....然后看到了这一段.我的天,惊为天人.把衰落中的那种帝国心态,简直写活了啊.这作者真是吃透了帝国的衰落史了....

唯一可惜的是那几句最后的翻译有点不够达.我重翻译一下:"....于是,只要这行头还照样堂皇,只要这头冠还照样闪亮,只要那头衔还照样荒诞,只要那神学还照样艰深,那么,一切就都肯定还挺好的吧?"我的天....这刻薄,这吐槽,这一针见血,这无能为力.啧啧啧.作者这是真的吃透了大英帝国的黄昏心态了啊......以前,书看得少的时候,好奇大英帝国是如何一步一步走向衰落的.后来,书看得足够多了.开始意识到,哦,是自己问错了问题.....问题根本不是大英帝国是怎么一步一步走向衰落的...问题是,大英帝国,这种小破玩意,怎么可能,竟然还走了那么大狗屎运,帝国过??????然后,整个历史才一下在自己面前,彻底洞开了,一切都清晰起来了......整个大英帝国,说难听点,不过区区一个小岛罢了.....大小才和广西省差不多.......区区一个省罢了,你们才几个人,你们才几杆枪?你们,怎么,竟然,还曾经帝国过??????这,才是正确的看历史的方法......用这个思路去看历史,才能看懂的.......于是意识到,战胜西班牙无敌舰队这件事,对英国人来说,多壮丽,多辉煌.于是才看懂大航海时代,英国是如何一步登天,占领了那么多殖民地.于是才明白,整个大英帝国的兴盛,都是建立在殖民地之上的.......整个大英帝国,皆出于此,罢了.....于是能否维持殖民地,就成了大英帝国的命脉问题.于是,当美帝独立,当拿破仑崛起,当俾斯麦崛起....这一系列世界变化,对大英帝国国运的那个明显威胁性,也就能理解了.于是能理解为何玩的一手好挑拨离间的大英帝国,竟然就不顾身家性命,非要头铁,非要亲自上场去打一战二战了......不打,还怎么维持殖民地?可是打了,就那么个小破岛,就那么几个人,几条枪,今天死一死,明天伤一伤,就算打赢了,还有能力再稳住殖民地么?回答肯定是就不成了啊................命啊.真的都是命啊......进退维谷,左右为难啊......前进也是衰败,后退也是衰败,甚至就是站在原地不动,还是个衰败.....大英帝国,真是从来没有过机会的.....不管往那个方向走,都是死路一条.根本就没有过机会的........一个注定昙花一现的,注定衰败的帝国罢了.....这种心态,真真是给这一大段台词写活了.写透了啊.......作者真牛逼.....佩服.佩服,拜读,拜读.那有什么大英帝国啊......大英谢顶认命国罢了.......

论认命,英国人说自己是第二,没人敢说自己是第一.....瞬间觉得鸦片战争的仇已经报了啊...

2021年4月9日，在伊丽莎白女王最后的陪伴下，她的丈夫菲利普亲王在温莎城堡离世,这场被人们注视了近一个世纪的皇室婚礼就此落幕。

今天，让我们回到英剧《王冠》第一季第一集，回到1947年，回到菲利普亲王宣誓放弃希腊王位继承权，回到那场“门户不当”的世纪婚礼，回到伊丽莎白皇冠未佩时，也回到她的父亲，乔治六世，这位体弱、腼腆却也恪尽职守的国王，最后的日子。

1.Chance would be a fine thing <英>良机不多

这是英式英语的一种说法，表达的是“我也想这样，但恐怕没这个机会”。

这里伊丽莎白对未婚夫说今晚好好休息，但是想在婚前最后的单身派对上休息是不大可能的，能出席明天的婚礼上就不错了（不是）。

-"You should relax a bit more." 你应该多休息。

-"Chance would be a fine thing." 我倒是想。

2.Get back on one's feet 恢复活动，振作起来

乔治六世大病初愈，今天是恢复工作的第一天，他的侍从们从准备早餐开始帮助国王get back on his feet。

它可以表达久卧在床的病人终于可以下床自由活动了。

也可以引申为颓丧了一阵子的人重新pull himself together and get back on his feet.3.Count someone out 把...排除在外

Count someone out很好理解，不把某人算在里面，除了用于像丘吉尔这种被其他政党刻意“排挤”的意思，也可以简单地表示不把某人算在里面，不带有主观情绪。

-“Does anyone want to go to Tims after school?” 谁想放学后去Tims？

-“Count me out — I’ve got homework.” 别把我算进去， 我还要做作业。

4.Cut through the jargon

Jargon是术语，行话的意思，比如medical jargon医学术语。

Cut through原意是穿过，通过。

“穿过这些术语” 就是看穿看懂这些术语。

5.Bounce back 恢复， 重振旗鼓

又来了一个重整旗鼓的表达。

bounce 本身是"弹跳，回弹"的意思, bounce back则表达的是“恢复”。

它除了和get back on one's feet一样可以表示人身、心的“恢复”外，还可以广泛地表达，环境、经济等等的恢复。

China's economy starts to bounce back after the pandemic.疫情之后中国的经济开始复苏。

6.Be up to something 胜任某事

这是一个常用又好用的表达，up可以表达很多意思， 比如最常见的It's up to you这里的up就是“取决于”的意思， 但It‘s up to you to do it，这里的up就是"由..负责，由...完成"，表示“这事该由你做”。

影片中的up则表示“胜任”， 这里丘吉尔问乔治六世： “伊丽莎白能胜任吗？

”。

up 还可以表示“忙于”， I'm up to business "我忙着做生意"。

7.Break someone in 帮助某人适应（新工作、环境）

我们经常可以看见break in表达破门而入, 比如 She wouldn't open the door so the police had to break in， 或者“插话”， 比如： Sorry to break in, but your mom is calling. 除此之外Break in它还有“使适应（新的工作或环境）”的意思哦。

这里，乔治六世知道自己剩下的时间不多了，想要先通过几次外交访问来慢慢“培养”未来的女王。

8.Throw oneself into something 投身于

throw-“投”， oneself-“身” 这个表达也很形象啦， 表示充满热情地投入到某项事情中去。

He throw himself into his work once he came back from holiday.假期一结束他就投身于自己的工作9.Fire away 想问就问吧

Fire away 有“连续射击、开火”的意思，它还可以表达“开始提问吧”， 一般当谈话的某一方想让气氛变得轻松，让对方敞开心扉，就可以这么说。

There is nobody here, fire away. 这里没人， 有话就说吧。

10.Step into one's shoes 接替某人的工作

Step into one's shoes 可不是站在某人的鞋子里的意思，而是接替某人的工作的意思。

Fill in one's shoes 也有类似的意思，而且因为他不仅step into, 而且能都fill in （穿满某人的鞋），那就是指可以“很好地接替某人的岗位”

创作：晶八五审校：Juliet排版：Wind总编：大风哥Wind

本来以为只是对英国历史的普及，但剧中人物各自的性格真是熠熠生辉。

The crown is a symbol and anyone who takes it would become half people. It shall be a curse.女王的职责不是采取行动劝说谁，什么态度都不表明，不得罪任何一方才是女王的工作。

就像丘吉尔把自己看作领袖，至高无上的领导力一样，他要求女王把自己看作国家的象征、教会的神。

Elizabeth代表Pride, Margret代表Joy. 你很少看到女王笑，夫妻吵架被记者拍到还要去道歉，她有自己的意见和偏向，但这些都抵不上别人告诉她，“维护传统和规则”才是最重要的。

没错，这是必要的代价，选择了制度就意味着离亲人越来越远，甚至意味着背叛自己的承诺。

反过来Margret随性富有创造力，说话会冒犯，个性是我们的骄傲，也是快乐的源泉，做自己所想为何不快乐？

但她很少有机会站在人前，首相觉得她会惹乱子不让她代为出席。

也因此，少了一些旁人的认可。

两个姐妹之间是底层价值的冲突，两人之间互相都有点羡慕对方，姐姐羡慕妹妹的自由，妹妹羡慕姐姐来自他人的仰视。

大家都有各自看不见的代价，却又无法互相理解。

Elizabeth在每件事上小心翼翼，怕被诟病，怕不合流程，每一次坚持之后的妥协，对他人来说是失望，对她自己来说其实是愧疚和麻木，时间久了她自己本人大概也无心爱人了。

一心维护规则的人，自己最终也会变成冰冷的规则本身。

王冠，或者说权力，从来都是诅咒，没有例外，因为那是将你与他人意志牢牢绑定在一起的毒药。

自此，他们所做的选择不是为了自己和自己爱的人，自由、理想、幸福、快乐这些都成了奢望，她的一生都将献给这顶王冠，与其共存亡。

但我始终认为，一个人抱着一样东西不放手，是为了获得既有的安全感，是他不知道如何抉择，是他放弃了新的可能性的最好证明。

若你把自由交托给他人，你便会被自由抛弃。

剧里出现的帝国王冠真身我没见过，但属于伊丽莎白二世的王冠，我见过另一顶。

前年夏天跑去爱丁堡边缘艺术节，顺便观光了城堡，就见到了。

人们排长队进一个旋转上升的小塔楼，楼上放的就是象征苏格兰君主权的宝剑，权杖，和王冠，还有一块看似平凡无奇的加冕石，每件各还能说出几桩野史。

几百年了，为了盘这么几件东西，英格兰和苏格兰人民大战不下三百回合。

那个操着销魂的苏格兰口音，穿着苏格兰短裙的男导游也神秘莫测：『现在的英女王同是英格兰和苏格兰的女王，所以这顶王冠，暂时是属于英国皇室的。

不过等到下一任君主上位，王冠可要还给苏格兰喽！

』同行的朋友看这东西金光闪闪，简直什么贵镶什么，就酸酸地说：『戴上一时爽，不过脖子也要断了吧？

』爽，都在心里呀！

我当时这么想着。

有人造过一个词，叫『技术投胎』，指他人生下来就在一般人花多少力气也到不了的起点。

举个🌰，就好比你很享受谈恋爱时看看电影拉拉手，暂称穷光蛋式的浪漫。

突然有一天女朋友告诉你，现在搞对象，流行先给女方浪掷千金，豪宅起送，比如，她就收到过这么N套......这起点太不一样了，值得生气。

说实话，我们这种平凡人，光想着自己没受到的好处了，要怎么理解技术投胎后的烦恼。

《The Crown》里出现的哪一个人不是技术投胎的受益者。

很多人说欲戴王冠必承其重。

知道重，但具体有多重？

太抽象了。

那就换一个角度讲讲吧：技术投胎者要吃的苦，你也没吃到呀！

张女士的那句话反过来怎么说？

你穿不上的华袍也沾不上虱。

我试着厘清一下这部女王养成记里的主要人物的关系。

如果这里史实虚构傻傻分不清楚，请不要怪我，毕竟我看的还是一部讲皇室的肥皂剧。

来自宇宙时尚大刊Vogue伊丽莎白二世倒霉的爸爸，老国王乔治六世，作为次子，本来根本就摊不上当国王的使命。

他那位性格软弱的哥哥，伊丽莎白二世的伯父，曾经的爱德华八世，后来的温莎公爵，在二战时面对德国人性格十分软弱，想了一个逃进温柔乡的办法让皇室蒙羞，讨离异、且前夫在世的美国交际花当老婆，在这件事上开了个头。

于是这位《国王的演讲》里写的乔治六世，只能结结巴巴上位，又几乎没过上什么好日子，就罹病去世了。

他母亲玛丽王太后说，我的一个儿子是被另一个儿子害死的。

温莎公爵和妻子演的是一场被贬谪到法国，有家回不了的苦命鸳鸯戏。

皇室说起『那个女人』，也是一副咬牙切齿的样子。

为了维持奢靡的生活，两人表面上与皇室维持友好关系，想尽办法领津贴，私下则骂骂咧咧。

真爱说了那么多遍，不是为了撒狗粮，而是为了说服自己，没有做错选择。

公爵心里也不是不想当王。

这个念想变成了法国家中的阁楼，里面装满了他短暂身为『爱德华八世』时的纪念品，变成了他时常吹响的苏格兰风笛。

这个念想，变成了他与庶人同看伊丽莎白二世加冕典礼电视直播时的刻薄吐槽。

侄女真正戴上王冠的时刻，直播中断了。

别人问他这个『圈内人』，为什么？

他说，『因为此刻，她就是神。

』

也来自Vogue，这个角选得跟原型好，像，啊谁要当这个没有实权，又一辈子被约束的神啊？

但这种事，没的选。

『神』身边的人，也没的选。

女王小时候帮助过父亲在加冕典礼前演习向教会、议会、人民宣誓。

轮到她自己的时候，她问能不能借帝国王冠来练习。

『借？

这顶王冠不是你的，又是谁的呢？

』老国王得知自己重病后主要做了两件事，一件是安排女儿访问邦国，另一件就是给女婿安排工作。

周围的侍从都虚情假意，只有老国王知道自己时不久矣，特意挑了一个大雾天，带着大家都不看好的女婿去猎鸭子。

史传这位女婿，菲利普亲王，是出了名的喜欢裸睡，剧拍得很仔细，出现了好几个早晨他光屁股被叫醒的场面。

这次是老国王亲自出马。

在湖上，老国王一句点破：亲王这个职称，才不是你的工作呢。

『She, is the job』。

爱她，保护她，没有比这更伟大的爱国了。

看到这里有些泪目。

女王的丈夫，就这样变成了一个被闲置的男人。

他的孩子不能继承他的名字，要姓温莎，他不能先行于他的妻子，他必须在加冕典礼上向自己的妻子下跪，余生必须留守白金汉宫，他也不能继续自己的海军事业。

为了培养点爱好，他跟着玛格丽特公主的姘头学开飞机，几乎提前感受中年危机女王的妹妹，玛格丽特公主在剧中的性格十分飒爽，爸爸在世时的一句『Lilibet is my pride, but Margaret is my joy』让她恃宠若娇，但并不令人讨厌。

22岁的玛格丽特爱上爸爸身边比她年长16岁的侍从，又是离异，前妻在世，人民拥护的姻缘却被英国教会否定。

姐姐作为皇室家长不能支持她的自由婚姻，也是一种痛苦。

真美啊这个set，一身衣服也喜欢还有一条线没有说，丘吉尔，倔强的人民领袖战后服老的一段，人物刻画得特别好，不展开讲了。

提示大家注意他和女王口音的神还原，还有很多场景服装的设置，都是这部剧讲究的地方。

至于不仅有王冠还有很多顶帽子的女王本人，还在超长待机呢，也是真敢拍。

提供一个小道消息：《王冠》一共会出五季，每季跨度十年。

掐指一算也能拍到现在了。

很多人还提到，这部剧是靠钱砸出来的。

就凭能让平凡人看到极尽完美中的身不由己，该砸。

王冠第一季第九集，这一集算是整个季里面最好看的一集了，尤其是画家和丘吉尔对话这一段，简直堪称经典，尤其是说到“鱼塘”的时候突来的配乐，让我鸡皮疙瘩都起来了。

晚上睡觉的时候我就在思考1.为什么这部剧能得到这么高的评分？

仅仅是因为是皇室题材吗？

2.这部剧显然和其他剧比起来都明显枯燥一些，没有那么多的转折那么多的架设，可是为什么我能坚持看到现在？

第一点毋庸置疑是摄影：随便拿出一帧可以作为一副摄像的电影不少，可是电视剧并不多，但是随着近几年以来许多电视剧开始摄像变得极其考究，例如权利的游戏，例如唐顿庄园，可是就拿唐顿庄园来说，王冠的摄影显然高于它，有很多长镜头，很多特别的拍摄角度，例如从车后窗拍摄车后说话的人，从上空拍摄女王骑马，从教堂顶拍摄下面说话的人，王后海边骑马那段可以堪称大片**，还有游行时女王微笑菲利普眼神配上漫天彩花的慢镜头，等等等等，虽然女王很多时候你觉得她的打扮就是普通人，还不如现在的明星打扮，可是那种精致无法比拟，很多时候我都在批判暗影掉，可是兴许正是这样的暗影掉凸现出来一种特别的沉重和细腻。

第二点在于演员的演技：女王，菲利普，丘吉尔，女王妹妹，丘吉尔夫人还有画家（完全没看出来是史丹尼斯），很多近距离的镜头特写，眼神，甚至每个皱纹都凸显出演技的用心和高超，让你觉得这是值得细细品味的；第三点在于台词：看这样的英剧的台词和口音无疑是一种享受，高贵而精致，女王的许多台词应该经过精心设计，让你忍不住退回去再看一遍；第四点当然在于还原：光是雾霾那一集，接电话的场景，加冕礼以及多次透过黑白电视表现历史感让你觉得这ttm用心了；第五点是我最想记录的一点关于自己的思考，就是本剧的编剧。

第九集中文译名我觉得很好：时间刺客，穿插了丘吉尔被政党排挤退位和一个曾经叱咤政坛呼风唤雨的老人最后要拜倒在时间的“刺杀”之下，一方面是时间让他老去，另一方面是他已经感到这不再是属于他的时代；我想我终于找到这部剧得以拍出来的部分原因，在于编剧的用心良苦，他的确涉及了很多时代背景，人物，以及大家都想看到的帝国皇室的衰弱，甚至是女王婚姻的背后，但是编剧把一切的力度把握的都刚刚好，没有去涉及很多的政治细节，整部剧就像女王一般超然于政治之上，就算是写丘吉尔，都是借用的他与画家的真实事件，一丝一缕，不讲政治，从他的另一面入手，塑造的如此鲜活真实，不能说这是一种欺骗，因为没有展现出一个完整的丘吉尔就是欺骗，这是一种高深的境界。

丘吉尔与画家之间的“英雄相惜”（他从一开始的反感到最后自己不小心表达出的friendship）这一段太精彩了，而最后他退位了却还是把画像烧了更是留下了足够的遐想，以及对人物性格和内心的探索，太好；另一主线则穿插女王和菲利普的婚姻危机，很隐晦，完全没有菲利普风花雪夜的场景，只有女王在窗前等待他归来，雨点打在窗户上的镜头，以及冷漠，争吵，完全是平常夫妻会有的状态，影片让女王的婚姻接了地气，却保留足了面子，最后女王穿上礼服在床前说的那段话又是高潮，can you，离去和菲利普站起的镜头可谓意犹未尽，多少婚姻埋葬在这样的无可奈何之中，编剧真的很厉害。

此外许多细节让人感叹，女王在见养马的那个人的时候对折镜子整理自己头发，丘吉尔老婆在宴会上那个可爱的眨眼，这些戏码真是太足了。

好片终究是好片。

一直到今年才有时间开始看这一个系列剧，整部剧的质感、情节、节奏、表演，甚至每一集的主题，各个方面都无可挑剔，用10集的体量讲女王登基再崭露头角的故事，内容很够了。

上帝视角来看王室家庭，似乎每一个人都在承受重压，人与人之间的关系也因为这顶王冠而逐渐复杂扭曲。

女王在兵荒马乱中接下这顶王冠，面对的是与丈夫间的分崩离析，自己小家庭的裂痕逐渐扩大；姐妹之间因为妹妹不被承认允许的爱情而陷入对立；君权之下，日渐衰落的王室和政府之间互相影响，女王逐渐明白这条路的方向，在最后一集的摄影机下，女王终于展露出领袖的样子。

这部剧是个群像戏，跟这顶王冠有关系的每个人都受到了非常大的影响，菲利普亲王显然对于爱情和婚姻有一定的憧憬和要求，很多人赞颂他为爱情放弃了继承权，但正因为如此他就会有所要求，他觉得这顶王冠就是个工作，要求女王仍旧能专注于小家庭，可作为第一顺位继承人，伊丽莎白早就明白，戴上这顶王宽，她需要承担更多的责任，她此生只有伊丽莎白女王这个身份，其他如妻子、母亲、姐姐、女儿这些身份已经不复存在了。

第8集Pride and Joy我非常喜欢。

整部剧中体现了非常多女王无奈的时刻，处理妹妹无望的跨越阶级的爱情可能是最难的一件，女王从一开始不看好但仍旧祝福，到后来在教庭和王室荣誉下的进退两难，在整集中都表现得淋漓尽致。

玛格丽特公主最终对于妥协于现实，她把满腔怒火全部砸在了姐姐身上，倾倒出全部的怨恨，更重要的是从心理上打击姐姐，她说，在父亲眼中，you are the pride, but I am the joy. 不得不说这个策略还是奏效的，伊丽莎白在那一场争论中虽然坚定但透露出伤心和无奈，她接受自己不够风趣幽默，也有懦弱和平庸，但自从她打电话给叔叔爱德华八世咨询意见时，她已经坚定地站在了王权这边，明白任何王室中人都需要维护荣誉，即便这其中需要牺牲的是她亲妹妹。

这样看来，这整整10集写下来的是，伊丽莎白其实是最明白王冠的人不是吗？

两姐妹中，她才是最适合这个位置的人。

欲戴王冠 必承其重 如果电视剧讲述的是你喜爱的历史人物，自然会投入更多的感情，他或她不是你们演的这样的；但如果只是吃瓜群众，自然是怎么八卦怎么来，怎么狗血怎么好咯。

所以传记类型的电视剧，往往会收到不同的评价。

就剧谈剧的分割线 剧集剧本由《女王》（The Queen）的编剧彼得-摩根（Peter Morgan）创作，由《时时刻刻》导演史蒂芬-戴德利（Stephen Daldry）执导，主要讲述伊丽莎白二世与丘吉尔在二战后，重塑英伦的故事。

克莱尔-福伊出演伊丽莎白二世，马特-史密斯和约翰-利斯高分别饰演菲利普亲王和丘吉尔。

该剧有可能会续订至六季，因为有传言称Netflix已将计划预算设置为1亿美金。

美国的网络电视网拍摄英国王室的故事，确实很有趣。

华丽的布景，精美的服饰，把观众带回到二战结束后的雾都伦敦，第一王位继承人伊丽莎白公主即将出嫁，民众对盛大的王室婚礼翘首以待，期望与年轻的公主一起扫除战后的阴霾开始新的生活篇章。

王宫中，公主在门外徘徊，等待着未婚夫宣誓放弃那些有名无实的外籍头衔，真正成为大不列颠的一员。

房间里国王正在授勋，正式接纳一个原本的外国人成为家族的一员。

她最爱的两个男人正在完成庄严的仪式，而她却忐忑着。

他会愿意吗，此后一生他是否会后悔今天的选择，他的爱是否和她一样坚贞？

她装作不在意地说，他还有24小时可以反悔；宽慰他此时的放弃或许可以获取的更高的奖赏，可傲娇的未婚夫回答“这正是他们想的”，她的心几乎就要坠地。

可他接着送上一个甜蜜的偷吻，“我也是这么想的”，公主的脸上立刻绽放出笑容。

这就是她的未婚夫，总是知道怎么让她心烦意乱，总是知道怎么让她的脸上染上红晕。

婚礼上，他们相互盟誓：我们从今以后，无论富贵或贫穷，无论疾病或健康，都将彼此相爱、珍惜、服从，直至被死亡分离。

她紧张时，她不安时，总是望向他，他时而挤眉弄眼，时而小声提醒，让她放松下来。

“服从”或许不是王储该有的誓词，却是此刻她心中的箴言。

他们的蜜月旅行，他们爱的结晶，他们新的家，一切如童话般完美。

他们是一对人人羡慕的一对佳偶，迷人海军军官和他高贵优雅的贵族夫人。

海滩上的嬉戏，赛艇比赛时的亢奋，party上的热闹喧嚣，还有一双如天使般可爱的儿女，几乎让他们忘记了自己的头衔和使命。

是啊，国王正值盛年，他们有足够的时间去享受自己的生活，陪伴孩子们长大，等到他们自己也足够成熟稳重，等到父亲慢慢老去，再去思考如何接下重担。

爱曾经让她小心翼翼，而现在爱让他们有恃无恐。

可惜，现实中的童话总是不会圆满。

来自伦敦的紧急电话，把他们召唤回伦敦。

公主紧张父亲的病情，得知手术成功终于松了一口气。

可身为这个家庭的外来者，菲利普敏锐地察觉到了医生心虚的表情，独自走进手术室，看到还在麻醉中的国王和被切除的肺部，他意识到了，岳父的病情绝不像公布的那样简单。

他开始默默关注着国王，时刻担心他会突然倒下，他知道他的妻子和这个家庭都承受不了这个打击。

爱让他变得小心翼翼。

而伊丽莎白对这却毫不知情，和母亲一起筹备圣诞行程，关心妹妹的感情生活，向父亲抱怨丈夫对装修的挑剔。

她还幻想着等父亲完全康复后，可以和丈夫孩子回到原本的家中，继续做她的军官夫人。

面对父亲突然交给的出访重任，她当然有点不知所措，不过也有点跃跃欲试。

她是父母眼中听话的好孩子，履行公主的职责，替父亲分忧这是她该做的事。

至于说服丈夫的工作很轻松，出访几个月的时间总会给他找的事做，孩子们还小不会在意他们的离开，等他回到海军，一切都会变好的。

忽视了父亲不断恶化的健康，纵容着妹妹可能成为丑闻的爱情，也未能读懂丈夫眼中的担忧，爱让她蒙上双眼，继续有恃无恐。

公主与王子的爱情故事演绎千遍万遍，一样有捧场的观众，而《王冠》的第一集没有描绘公主与王子如何相识相恋，而直接从婚礼开场。

我很中意剧中这对王室夫妻的描述，几句对白，一个深吻，还有运用蒙太奇展示的婚后生活，寥寥几笔就勾画出丰满的人物形象。

循规蹈矩的大公主遇到了潇洒不羁的落魄王子，尽管不被人看好，尽管有那样这样的问题，他们还是走到了一起。

婚后离开了王室的纷繁，回归最简单的夫妻生活，他们拥有了一段梦想的人生。

这是童话的尾声，也是现实生活的开端，之前的生活有多少欢乐，此后的生活就有多少的一言难尽。

传记片就是这样，观众是历史的知情人，而剧中的芸芸众生则是历史经历者。

对我们而言是一段故事，于他们来说是整个人生。

如果说对公主夫妻的描述只是一个精彩的开场，对乔治六世国王的描绘则是一段华美的篇章。

他是一个深爱家庭的男人，即便身体出现不适，仍然坚持出席女儿的婚礼，牵着她的手交给另一个男人，精心为她挑选新婚礼物。

获知自己不久于人世时，他小心翼翼的瞒着所有的人，不让妻子难过，不让母亲伤心，不让女儿担心。

他默默地为继承人规划着未来，与帝国最老道的老狐狸斗智斗勇，为她争取时间和经验。

他被病痛折磨着早起，却恶作剧般地叫醒裸睡的女婿，一起去沼泽地打猎。

他记得答应过女儿，陪她的丈夫出去散心，他希望她有一个能陪伴她走过这段艰难旅程的人，一个将爱她，保护她视为毕生职责的伴侣，因为他已不能再陪伴她了。

他是一位与疾病抗争的国王，他收拾好了哥哥退位后留下的烂摊子，和人民一起打赢了世界大战，甚至用讲黄段子的方法克服了口吃和坏脾气。

可是“癌症”，不是他能克服的。

当从医生口中听到实情后，他问了两个问题，有谁知道自己的病情，以及自己还有多长时间。

医生的回答让他心酸又难受，原来首相早就获知自己的病情，之前的悉心装扮，甚至打上的腮红，不但没有遮掩病容，反而将自己的软肋暴露在对手面前，而自己珍爱的家人却无人知晓自己的状况。

他艰难地维系着一个国王最后的尊严，掩饰着身体的痛楚与对人世的不舍。

他深知王冠之重，哪怕不能与家人享受最后的人伦之乐，也要把王冠平稳地传递下去。

他只祈求上苍再多给自己一点时间，再多做点准备，为继承人再多铺一段路。

作为知情人我们知道，上帝留给乔治六世的时间并不多， 对家人的爱，对国家的爱，让他小心翼翼走过了最后的时光。

而他的女儿即将加冕为王，此后一生她都将承受王冠的重量，也用一生的勤勉去兑现对父亲的承诺与爱，他离去之后她再也无法有恃无恐。

--谈谈真实人物-自我记事起，英国女王就是白发苍苍的老太太，而她的丈夫则是比她高出很多的秃顶老头。

前段时间看了英国为庆贺女王90岁生日拍摄的纪录片（ps：看看人家怎么拍马屁的），看到了女王夫妇年轻时的模样。

老实说这个剧的选角真心有问题，主角的颜值和气质与真实人物差距太大，反而配角到还原得不错。

青年时代的女王，优雅大方，充满朝气。

如果说女王的颜值不输给女明星，那么亲王的颜值是直逼当红巨星。

那时的亲王高大英俊，一头金发，标准的西方美男子，既有贵族气质又兼具迷人魅力，难怪女王在少女时代会对他一见钟情。

乖乖女爱上坏小子，老套的剧情总是重复上演。

婚后，他们曾拥有一段如普通人般的生活，他是驻外的海军军官，她是当地社交圈最受欢迎的女主人。

男主外，女主内，其实某种程度上与他们本身的性格相符。

可惜，注定得她走在前面，他跟在后面。

纪录片里王子、公主们纷纷出镜，他们描述女王时，总是站在王室成员的角度，讲述女王的智慧、辛勤与付出；而谈到亲王时，则是在讲一位父亲，一位祖父的故事，甚至有位年轻的公主因为外界对祖父的不公评价激动地落泪。

亲王是王室的外来人，如今则是王室另外的某种象征。

他的风流韵事，他的保守思想还有口不择言，都让王室公关们头疼不已，可他依然我行我素。

女王的男人不应该是这样的，但转过来想，这样的男人也许正是女王想要的。

一个能对自己直言不讳的人，一个能替自己讲“不合时宜”笑话的人，一个能和儿孙正常交往的人。

他们的故事绝不像鸡汤文中描述那么美好，也不会像反鸡汤文中描绘得那么不堪，如人饮水，冷暖自知。

爱或许曾经有恃无恐，但现实教会爱小心翼翼，最后悠长的时光让爱变做陪伴。

原文链接Series one, episode one: Wolferton SplashThe series opens with King George VI spewing blood into a lavatory pan, to indicate that he is a sick man. Before the opening credits, there is a scene in which the King invests Prince Philip, as Duke of Edinburgh. Prince Philip is described as a Prince of Greece and ‘of’ Denmark. Then the King knights him as he bestows titles on him in the wrong order, and only then gives him the Order of the Garter. There is a scene in which the King uses the ‘C’ word. We are introduced to the Prince Philip character, portrayed throughout the series as a kind of ‘Jack the Lad’, smoking a cigarette on the day before the wedding and treating it all as something of a game.This episode introduces the various themes. We see tension between the King and Prince Philip, we meet Group Captain Peter Townsend hovering amorously around Princess Margaret, and Princess Elizabeth preparing for her future role, at work with her father.At the 1947 royal wedding Prince Philip’s mother is depicted in a nun’s habit – in reality she was a civilian then and did not adopt the habit (which she wore at the Coronation) until 1948. But this allows Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) to describe her disparagingly as ‘the hun nun’. But then she calls her daughter ‘Elizabeth’ when it was always ‘Lilibet’. There are scenes in Malta of Princess Elizabeth’s carefree life, though her son, Prince Charles, was not in Malta at that time.The King has to have an operation, so we see Princess Margaret waiting anxiously with Queen Mary and the King with his doctors. There are gory scenes of the lung being removed and the lung is wrapped up in a copy of The Times (a story gleaned from Hugh Trevor-Roper’s letters). There is a scene where Sir John Weir, the well-known homeopathic doctor, informs the King of the gravity of his illness despite the operation. It is curious that this role was assigned to Weir. In reality he failed to give the King proper advice. He was even mistrusted by the admirable Dr Margery Blackie, the most distinguished of homeopathic doctors, who had little time for him.In 1948 Dermot Morrah, a respected Times writer, reported privately that the King was in danger of losing his leg: ‘One special source of anxiety is his personal physician – a homeopathic quack with a fascination for women, some of whom planted him on Edward, Prince of Wales, who bequeathed him to his successor as official medical officer. Of course they’ve called in good men as consultants, Cassidy and Learmouth especially, but this old menace is there all the time, and it was he who let the trouble go to this length before sounding the alarm.’It was as bad in 1951, in which this episode is set. Weir accompanied the King to Balmoral for the summer. The worldly doctor enjoyed himself shooting with Scottish dukes. Only when the local doctor was called in was the gravity of the King’s illness appreciated, resulting in him being whisked down to London to have his lung removed. Following that, those who understood such things realised that the King’s life was likely to be short.This episode depicts Churchill becoming Prime Minister again (in October 1951), and suggests that neither he nor the King are in good health, the King is forced to wear rouge (which was the case). In reality it is not certain how much the King was told about his state of health. The episode ends with Princess Elizabeth looking at the King’s boxes, and in a sense facing her destiny.A minor mistake: Princess Elizabeth’s car has the royal coat of arms on it. This is reserved for the monarch. Lady Churchill’s GBE riband at the wedding is too red and too wide.Series one, episode two: Hyde Park CornerEpisode 1 warned us that the King’s life was in danger. Episode 2 carries him off. It starts with Princess Elizabeth arriving in Kenya on the first leg of the proposed Commonwealth tour she is undertaking on her father’s behalf.We see the royal limousine arriving at an event and the Royal Standard fluttering on the front of it, the inference here being that Princess Elizabeth has already become Queen, but no, it is the wrong Royal Standard. Princess Elizabeth’s would have had a label of three white points. Soon afterwards a cocky Prince Philip mocks a Kikuyu chieftain for wearing a medal to which he is apparently not entitled, in fact a VC, though this is not explained. This was in February 1952 and yet Prince Philip was wearing a 1953 Coronation medal, which, arguably, might not have mattered, but for the fact that he was chiding someone else for wearing the wrong medal.As they arrive at Treetops for the fateful night of 5/6 February, the Prince Philip character does a Crocodile Dundee feat in seeing off a bull elephant. In reality there were no elephants there that day or night.The scenes in which Lord Salisbury is seen plotting to get rid of Churchill have not been well received by the Cecil family due to inaccuracies. He would never have elicited the help of Lord Mountbatten, for example. Anthony Eden did not go to Sandringham to ask the King to exercise his constitutional right to remove the Prime Minister from office on account of his incapacity to run the country properly, least of all in February 1952. Churchill himself is given a fictitious secretary called Venetia Scott, so that she can play a role in Episode 4.Following the King’s death, we see a gruesome scene in which Princess Margaret visits the body of her father during the embalming process. Churchill did not broadcast in the presence of the entire Cabinet, yet his actual words are as moving to listen to today as they surely were at the time. Tommy Lascelles, the Private Secretary, is invested with a most sinister role. He is given good lines, such as when he passes on the Queen Mother’s offer to Townsend to become her Comptroller at Clarence House: ‘I don’t expect you to accept.’Minor mistakes: It was not Lascelles who told Churchill of the King’s death, it was Sir Edward Ford; Queen Mary was told by Lady Cynthia Colville, not by a footman; it is unlikely that Princess Elizabeth had just written to her father before hearing of his death; Queen Mary did not come to Sandringham to curtsy to the new Queen (that happened at Marlborough House); there is no evidence that Lascelles caught Princess Margaret and Townsend kissing; contemporary evidence proves that the Queen Mother did not cry hysterically when she heard of the King’s death (she was far too stoical); Martin Charteris did not disappear from royal service immediately after the King’s death (he became part of the team, though no longer the new Queen’s actual Private Secretary). Some of these things are acceptable under the heading of dramatic licence.Series one, episode three: WindsorBack we go to 1936, seeing Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret playing just before their uncle, King Edward VIII, broadcasts his Abdication speech. There is no way that Queen Mary would have come into the room to see the King to try to dissuade him from broadcasting. And Mrs Simpson was not hovering in the background as he made that speech. In reality she was in Cannes. In the real abdication speech he was announced as ‘His Royal Highness Prince Edward’ not as Duke of Windsor.Presently there are many scenes involved with the aftermath of King George VI’s death, the young Queen wearing black and sometimes a black veil, and Tommy Lascelles becoming ever more the dominant figure in the Palace.Two big issues are explored to show how Prince Philip no longer has any say in the running of his family. There are many scenes of the redecoration of Clarence House, and he wants the family to stay there. He insists that the Queen puts this proposal to Churchill. The other issue is the family name. It is understood that, in real life, the Queen and Prince Philip would have preferred to stay at Clarence House, which was the perfect London home for a young family, not too big, and with a well-sized garden. Buckingham Palace has always served multiple purposes: a series of state rooms, offices for members of the Household, and the King and Queen’s rooms along a long corridor on the Constitution Hill side. It must have been a bit like living in an Edwardian hotel. But Churchill insisted that the monarch must live in the Palace, and so they moved in on 5 May 1952. The Queen Mother moved into Clarence House on 18 May 1953.The name issue was another genuine cause for Prince Philip to be upset. As seen in this episode, Lord Mountbatten, curiously dressed for dinner in his own home (Broadlands) as an Admiral, boasts, with some justification, that the House of Mountbatten now reigns in Britain. Normally the male who marries a Queen Regnant gives his name to the new house, hence Queen Victoria was the last Queen of the House of Hanover which became Saxe-Coburg when she married Prince Albert in 1840. Prince Ernst August of Hanover was at Mountbatten’s table in 1952 and did not like what he heard. He informed Queen Mary who called for Jock Colville, then Private Secretary to Winston Churchill. The Prime Minister duly informed the Queen that the Royal House must be called the House of Windsor. There is a fictional scene in which the Queen reads out this declaration to the Privy Council.It is true that Prince Philip was livid about this though, in reality, he wanted it called the House of Edinburgh, rather than Mountbatten, the preferred choice of his ever-manipulative uncle. Harold Macmillan recorded that Prince Philip wrote a well-reasoned memorandum making his case, but the Government would not countenance the Mountbatten name being used. In opposing Prince Philip, ministers such as Macmillan were keen to send ‘a shot across his bows’, to keep the young consort in his place.The Duke of Windsor comes over for his brother’s funeral, and the series makes much of the newly styled Queen Mother’s hostility to him. The Duke of Windsor also wants various things. There is a lot of bargaining in this episode. The Queen asks Churchill to do her a favour by informing the Cabinet about the Mountbatten name, claiming that she is keeping him in office by agreeing to a delayed Coronation. In fact the Coronation was always planned for June 1953 as it takes a long time to arrange such a ceremony.Then Churchill asks the Duke of Windsor to help put various points to the Queen – for example to be an intermediary over the other two issues of this episode, the family name and the move to Buckingham Palace. In exchange, the Duke wants to retain the allowance King George VI promised him (which ceased at the King’s death) and again demanded an HRH for the Duchess. There is a curious scene in which three contrasting aspects of love are explored – we see a sequence with the Windsors dancing romantically, the Queen and Prince Philip at the opera (where he takes her hand), and Princess Margaret popping in to Townsend’s office to kiss him with some passion.The Duke of Windsor then lunches with the Queen, which did not happen in real life, and puts Churchill’s two points to her. Most erroneously, we find the new young Queen turning to the Duke of Windsor for avuncular advice. He is presented as a sage and explains in the almost Shakespearean language the scriptwriters give him why she, as a monarch, must move from Clarence House to Buckingham Palace.Alex Jennings, the actor, looks incredibly like the Duke of Windsor, but the real life Duke never delivered such Shakespearean oratory. Nor would the real Queen ever have asked for advice from a man so patently incapable of giving it.The Duke of Windsor had been immensely tiresome ever since the Abdication in 1936, and Tommy Lascelles had seen him off on more than one occasion, most effectively in 1945. The Royal Family felt gravely let down by the Abdication, and Lascelles wrote at one point in the 1940s that any appearance in Britain by the Duke would have a grave effect on the health and peace of mind of George VI. Later on, in real life, the Queen was courteous to her uncle, and various rapprochements were made before he died, but the trouble with the Duke of Windsor was that if he was given an inch, he would take a mile.In other themes, we see Prince Philip asking Group Captain Townsend to teach him to fly, a theme followed up in the next episode. He did learn at White Waltham, near Maidenhead, but was taught by Flight Lieutenant C.R. Gordon, of Cheltenham. He received his wings from Air Chief Marshal Sir William Dickson, on 4 May 1953, having flown for 90 to 100 hours.The film-makers also introduce the idea that Prince Philip bullied Prince Charles, which is again addressed in later episodes.Minor mistakes: Prince Philip was a descendant of the royal houses of Greece and Denmark, but not of Norway. King Haakon of Norway (1872-1957) was a Prince of Denmark who was given the Norwegian throne in 1905.A recurring mistake throughout the series: All the characters arrive at Buckingham Palace through the ceremonial front gates. Normally they enter via the gate to the right near Constitution Hill.Series one, episode four: Act of GodThis is a curious episode based on the great fog that descended on London between 5 and 9 December 1952. This fog caused some spontaneous burglaries and one murder. London was perfectly used to fog, so it was not treated as a particular emergency until much later when it was estimated that between 4,000 and 12,000 people died – though most of them had breathing problems or were very old. Most of this episode is fictional and did not happen. Obviously the scenes involving Churchill’s fictional secretary, Venetia Scott, were made up. She is killed when hit by a bus, but since there was no public transport, other than trains on the London Underground, due to the fog, this could not have happened.The film-makers then involve Churchill failing to take action, the question of Clement Attlee, the Leader of the Opposition, potentially turning the situation to political advantage, and Churchill’s decision to visit a hospital during the crisis, but all this is fiction too. Interestingly the fog did not rate a mention in Martin Gilbert’s official biography of Churchill.The other scenes involve Prince Philip learning to fly and Government annoyance at this. Queen Mary falls ill and takes to her bed, attended by Sir John Weir. The Queen walks through the fog to visit her ailing grandmother to discuss what is expected of her as a monarch.Series one, episode five: Smoke and MirrorsThere is a flashback to 11 May, with George VI explaining the significance of anointing in the Coronation ceremony, and talking of the weight of the crown, both actual and symbolic. The action then moves forward to 1953, with the Queen trying on the same crown before her Coronation.Queen Mary falls gravely ill, which brings the Duke of Windsor over. In this series he comes from France, though he actually came with his sister, the Princess Royal, from New York. There are lots of opportunities for him to complain to the Duchess of Windsor about his family, his mother and his treatment. The Queen is warned by the Queen Mother to be wary of the Duke – ‘like mercury, he’ll slip through the tiniest crack.’ During his visit, the Duke is summoned from Marlborough House to Lambeth Palace where he finds the Archbishop of Canterbury, Tommy Lascelles and one other, ranged against him explaining why he should not attend the Coronation and that the Duchess would not be invited. The Duke is furious, but he agrees to put out a statement explaining why he won’t be there.While he is at Lambeth Palace, a message comes through that Queen Mary has died. In reality the Duke was not at Lambeth Palace. Her funeral is shown (with the Royal Standard on her coffin, not her personal standard).In real life, the question of the Duke’s possible attendance preoccupied the Archbishop of Canterbury as early as November 1952 and he raised the matter with the Queen at lunch. It was agreed that his presence ‘would create a very difficult situation for everybody, and if had not the wits to see that for himself, then he ought to be told it.’ Churchill took the line that while it was understandable that the Duke would wish to be present at family funerals, it would be completely inappropriate for him to attend the Coronation of one of his successors. Tommy Lascelles wrote to the Duke’s lawyers making it clear that no summons would be forthcoming. A statement was prepared for the Duke to issue to save face, but he must have alarmed the British Government by giving an interview at Cherbourg in which he said he might well be in England at the time of the ceremony. As it happened he and the Duchess stayed in Paris and watched it on television with friends, a scene recreated in this episode. We see the Duke explaining the proceedings in the Abbey, again in Shakespearean phrases, to a group of undistinguished guests. The episode ends with him playing his bagpipes outside the house, with tears in his eyes, presumably to hint that he is regretting all that he discarded.The other main theme in this episode is the role of Prince Philip in the preparations and also in respect of the part he intends to play in the ceremony. Here he only agrees to chair the Coronation Committee if he has total control and we see him coming out with all sorts of modern ideas for the day, such as inviting Trade Union leaders and businessmen to take part. He is told that some things cannot be changed. There is a row with the Queen and he tells her he refuses to kneel before her to do homage. In the end he is obliged to do so, but he is given credit for insisting the ceremony be televised.Having written a book on the Coronation and delved into the Archbishop of Canterbury’s papers I can testify that these reveal the Archbishop of Canterbury, pushing Prince Philip out as much as possible. He pronounced: “There must be no association of him in any way with the process & rite of Coronation.” Yet they also show that Prince Philip was quite happy to do fealty after the Archbishop (when he could have been expected to go first) and that he presented a silver gilt wafer box to the Abbey, and a chalice and paten to Lambeth as a form of offering to respect taking his place next to the Queen during the communion.Unlike other flaky consorts such as Prince Claus of the Netherlands and Prince Henrik of Denmark, Prince Philip was raised within the Royal House of Greece. But for the birth of the future King Constantine in 1940, he would have ended up as King of Greece in 1964, and marriage with Princess Elizabeth would have been out of the question. In real life he adapted quickly to his changed circumstances, but in The Crown, they put him in conflict at every opportunity.The Coronation scene was a wonderful opportunity to create a scene of great visual magnificence but it fell seriously short in regard to a great number of details. Earl Mountbatten, seated in the front row of the Royal Box (he was not in the front row) appears dressed in ducal robes, and is not wearing his Garter collar. Nor is the supporting actor representing the Queen’s uncle, the Duke of Gloucester. The Marquess of Salisbury carries the Sword of State (which he did at the actual Coronation), but he crowns himself with an Earl’s coronet. The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire (Mistress of the Robes) fails to put on a coronet. The oath was not administered during the anointing but before it. There are a number of peeresses sitting where the Peers sat in reality. Thus this scene is one of the least convincing in the series.The St Edward’s Crown with which the Queen is crowned was far too big, but this may have been intentional to demonstrate the burden the Queen was assuming.Series one, episode six: GeligniteThe theme of this episode is the Princess Margaret – Peter Townsend love affair and their attempt to marry in 1953. The opening scene shows the Queen and Prince Philip going to the Coronation Derby, but we then see a newspaper office where an unshaven journalist has picked up what he realises is a huge scoop (hence ‘gelignite’) – Princess Margaret having been observed picking some fluff off the jacket of Group Captain Peter Townsend at the Coronation – he being by then a divorced equerry. Princess Margaret and Townsend are on the point of accompanying the Queen Mother on an official visit to Rhodesia.The Princess invites the Queen and Prince Philip to dine with her and Townsend and they believe that they have her blessing, but they soon run up against the establishment. Tommy Lascelles invokes the Royal Marriages Act of 1772, which stated that no lineal descendant of George II could marry without the consent of the Sovereign, and so Princess Margaret is asked to wait for two years. The series suggests that the Queen deceived her sister by appearing to support her wish to marry him and then eventually forbidding it. The film-makers imply that the Princess never forgave her sister, a theme which recurs in later episodes. The essence of this episode is more or less correct, but the sequence of events is somewhat muddled. Since there are also a number of contradictory accounts left by Peter Townsend, Tommy Lascelles, and Princess Margaret to her biographer, it is hard to settle on a true version, since that true version depends on which source is trusted.Lascelles appears at his most severe in this episode, a Satanic and menacing figure. This is an interpretation that might well have resonated with the real life Princess Margaret, not to mention the real life Peter Townsend.There is no doubt that Princess Margaret fell in love with the Group Captain. He was the trusted equerry of the father she adored and a Battle of Britain hero. He was rather a gentle figure. However, as Lascelles made clear to him in no uncertain terms, he had been placed in a position of trust and responsibility. He was a married man with two sons and he was considerably older than the Princess. The real Lascelles said of him: ‘He has Theudas trouble’, a reference to the Acts of the Apostles: ‘For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody.’ Churchill made it clear that the Queen could not sanction the marriage. So Townsend was sent away to Brussels, where he stayed for two years. By the time he returned in 1955, when the British public were agog to know whether the marriage would take place, the path of love had completely run its course. This is the main theme of Episode 10.Minor mistakes: The costume department gave Townsend his CVO, but failed to give the actor playing Lascelles any medals or Orders (by 1953 he was entitled to a GCVO, CMG, MC and various other medals); in Rhodesia, there was a Governor-type figure in a Guards tunic with a GCB, but only bar ribbons for medals. At one point we see the telephone switchboard, which includes Highgrove House. This is the house that the Duchy of Cornwall bought for Prince Charles in 1980, so it would not have been on the switchboard in the 1950s.Series one, episode seven: Scientia Potentia EstIt is 1940 and the Princesses are with their French governess. Princess Elizabeth goes to Eton College to be instructed by the Provost, Sir Henry Marten (not Vice-Provost as stated in the series). This leads to the Queen wishing to be better educated – knowledge is power - and as the story moves on into 1953, one of the themes is that she wants a tutor to help expand her general knowledge. Martin Charteris such a figure called Professor Hodge, but he is a completely fictitious character. The Queen did not seek a tutor to help her and nor would she ever have taken advice over constitutional matters from a figure outside the Palace system.Retirement, or rather non-retirement, is in the air. Churchill is getting old and rather desperate, but refusing to go. The Anthony Eden character is ill in Boston, rather luridly so, taking injections, the implication being that he was almost a drug addict (a theme which gets worse in subsequent episodes). Then Churchill has two strokes. Evidently the Queen is not informed and so the fictitious Hodge urges her to summon Churchill and Lord Salisbury to tick them off like recalcitrant schoolboys. The Crown plays out the two wiggings. Symbolically this is to demonstrate that the Queen is getting on top of her role as an assured constitutional monarch.Tommy Lascelles is also about to retire. In this series, the Queen wants her former Private Secretary, Martin Charteris, to take over and even offers him the job. He and his wife (Gay in real life, but here carelessly called Mary - the name of his daughter), go to look at the Private Secretary’s new home at St James’s Palace and have a tree trimmed outside it. They even say the house will be good for ‘the girls’. (In real life they had the one daughter and two sons). Michael Adeane hears about this, is aggrieved, and complains to Lascelles, who engineers that he does succeed him and not Charteris. Once again Lascelles proves himself more dominant and the Queen’s private wishes are set aside.This is inaccurate. It is traditional that the monarch’s serving Private Secretary stays on for a few months at the beginning of a new reign to help with the transition as did Lascelles until after the Coronation, retiring at the age of sixty-six on the last day of 1953. Michael Adeane and Martin Charteris were working as a team (along with Edward Ford, who is not portrayed in the series). Michael Adeane was always the natural successor, and there was no fuss. He took over.In this episode, the film-makers have put a 1972 story into a 1953 context, presumably so that they could use the Lascelles figure. There was a fuss over Adeane’s successor when he retired. At that time Charteris was the natural successor but Lord Cobbold, a former Governor of the Bank of England, wanted to sweep away the Guards officer Old Etonian types who held sway in the Palace and replace them with more meritocratic types. He tried to reject Charteris in favour of Philip Moore. But Charteris went to see the Queen and asked to take over. She immediately agreed, and he proved to be an inspired Private Secretary, who succeeded perhaps better than any other Private Secretary in presenting her to the world as she really is. He served until 1977.The message that emerges from this episode is that the Queen is conscientious, prepared to do her homework and research, with a knack for discovering the truth when it is kept from her – as, for example, with Churchill’s two strokes (though Lord Salisbury is unlikely to have been willfully withholding this information from her).Lascelles is well played in the series, though his older daughter (now 94) has said that his hair parting is wrong and his moustache too big. By curious misfortune, the actor playing Michael Adeane looks more like the real life Martin Charteris.Series one, episode eight: Pride and JoyThe King used to say of his two daughters: ‘Lilibet is my pride, and Margaret my joy.’ (This is something first published by me in my biography of the Queen Mother and therefore explains the title of this episode). Here there is a complete jumble of the real life facts. The episode starts with a scene where the Queen unveils a statue to King George VI in the Mall. This was in fact unveiled on 6 October 1955. But suddenly plans are being made for the Commonwealth tour of 1953 and 1954, so the story moves back in time.There is particular discussion about Gibraltar as a place that could be dangerous. This was quite true. There were threats from the Spanish and for a visit of less than two days, there were detectives from Scotland Yard operating under cover there for several months. There are some scenes from the Commonwealth tour demonstrating the Queen’s determination to undertake it all, and the strain this put on her. At one point the press see the Queen and Prince Philip emerging from a house after a row. Rightly, they stress the success of the tour.The film-makers decided that while the Queen was away on her Commonwealth tour, the country would be run by Princess Margaret, rather than the Queen Mother, enabling them to use her as a modernizer breaking all the rules and introducing a spontaneous and touchy-feely (quasi Diana, Princess of Wales) approach to being Head of State which, not surprisingly, upsets everyone. She rewrites a speech, suiting her wayward personality and introducing more colour into it, and delivers this at an Ambassadors’ reception (curiously British Ambassadors serving overseas, in Washington and Athens, who appear to have flown in for this occasion). She gets the guests laughing. The point they seek to make is that Princess Margaret thinks she would make a better Queen than her sister, more in tune with the changing times. The Charteris figure gets more and more worried as she chats to miners, gives spontaneous interviews to the media in which she mentions her affection for Townsend and takes a dig at the Queen. She gets ticked off by Churchill who begins to detect a crisis arising, akin to the Abdication. When the Queen comes back, Churchill alerts her to Princess Margaret’s behaviour.None of the above happened and is ultimately tabloid invention. Nor do I subscribe to the idea that there was bitter jealousy between Princess Margaret and the Queen. Princess Margaret always supported her sister.To achieve this, they blur the dates and have the Queen Mother out of the way, buying Barrogill Castle (later renamed the Castle of Mey) in Scotland, something which actually happened a whole year earlier, in 1952. Lascelles (who would by then have retired) tells the Queen Mother what her duties will be, but she tells him she wants to be away. The episode twists history by suggesting the Queen Mother was prepared to shirk all her responsibilities.In reality the Queen Mother was very much in London while the Queen was away, not least looking after Prince Charles and Princess Anne, who stayed with her at Royal Lodge most weekends (when she was not away racing) and at Sandringham for a long Christmas holiday. She was the senior Counsellor of State during the Queen’s absence. Counsellors act in tandem and Princess Margaret usually assisted her. But Churchill had the same kind of audiences with the Queen Mother as he would have done with the Queen, but not so regularly. The film also has Princess Margaret being advised by Martin Charteris, when in real life, he was travelling with the Queen and Prince Philip.As to the Castle of Mey scenes, the Queen Mother did not ride horses after the early 1930s, so to see her cantering along the beaches is somewhat strange. Nor is it likely that the castle’s funny old owner, Captain Imbert-Terry, would not have recognised her. While she stays with the Vyners, she addresses the issues of her early widowhood. As this is meant to be late 1953, and not 1952, this does not convince – even with dramatic licence.Minor mistakes: At a fitting they dress Prince Philip in the naval uniform which he wore but once – at the Coronation, an outdated uniform with epaulettes; later, he wears a Garter riband and bar medals, which is incorrect. The Caribbean Governor in white is wearing what might be a curious interpretation of a military GBE riband along with a huge GCMG star. When Princess Margaret gives her speech, the guests are wearing Orders, but she is not.Series one, episode nine: AssassinsIn London in 1954 Jean Wallop, a private person still very much alive, arrives in a restaurant to dine with Lord Porchester (later 7th Earl of Carnarvon). He proposes to her. She accepts on one condition – that he does not still hold a torch for ‘her’ – i.e. the Queen. I have it on impeccable authority that the future Lady Carnarvon did not even know that he knew the Queen when she met him. The outcome of this scene is that he tells her that for the Queen there was only ever Prince Philip, and she (his bride to be) is the only one for him. The Porchesters were married in January 1956.The Crown suggests that Porchester was the man many wanted the Queen to marry, and they hint that she would have been happier with him than with Prince Philip. For the record, the Queen Mother originally wanted Princess Elizabeth to marry a Grenadier Guards officer. The late Duke of Grafton springs to mind. But from very early on, she set her heart on the good looking Prince Philip. Soon after he returned from war, they were engaged. The Queen Mother told Sir Arthur Penn: ‘Won’t the Grenadier Guards be disappointed?’ They were and at first refused to have Prince Philip as their Colonel.The episode depicts Porchester ringing the Queen late at night, with a certain number of double entendres, his wife-to-be coming through from the bathroom. The Queen’s love of racing is emphasized as is Prince Philip’s boredom with it. This theme is rather dropped as the episode goes on, though in one scene, the Queen and Prince Philip watch a mare being covered, with Lord Porchester observing from afar and with some predictably cheap lines. Afterwards Prince Philip jumps out of the Land Rover in a rage. This is followed by a scene back home with a declaration of love by the Queen for Prince Philip.Lord Carnarvon was a close adviser to the Queen as her racing manager and she often stayed with him and his wife to visit studs in the Berkshire area. Both she and Prince Philip flew down from Balmoral to attend his funeral in 2001.The Graham Sutherland story is well told. Sutherland was commissioned to paint Churchill’s portrait to be presented to him in Westminster Hall for his 80th birthday on 30 November 1954. Peter Morgan is on firm ground here as it is within the political domain. Intermingled with this is the theme that Churchill should stand down. There is a fictional scene where Eden visits Churchill at Chartwell and bids him to give way in a histrionic, hysterical way – presaging the recurring theme that he was some kind of junkie. As to the portrait itself, it was revealed after her death in 1977 that Lady Churchill had destroyed it. In 1957 she described Churchill’s reaction to the painting in a letter to Lord Beaverbrook: ‘it wounded him deeply that this brilliant … painter with whom he had made friends while sitting for him should see him as a gross & cruel monster.’There is a partly fictitious version of the speech he gave in Westminster Hall in which he teases the audience that he is about to retire and that his successor, Anthony Eden, is to hand. It appears that he then promptly resigns and with the brutality of the political system, as he leaves the Palace, Eden’s car draws up. The Queen’s speech at Churchill’s farewell dinner was taken from a private letter from the Queen to Churchill after his resignation and not delivered as such on the night. As we listen to it, we see another scene – Lady Churchill presiding over the burning of the Sutherland portrait.In reality Churchill did not resign immediately after his 80th birthday in November 1954. He hung on in office until April 1955.Series one, episode ten: GlorianaThe episode reprises the events of December 1936. Edward VIII agrees to see his brother, the Duke of York, but not the Duchess (there is no evidence for that). Then the new King informs his daughters that their uncle has put love before duty. He tells them never to let each other down thus introducing the theme that there could be tension between them later on.A Royal Standard is hoisted over Balmoral. It is Princess Margaret’s 25th birthday (21 August 1955) and she declares she still feels the same way about Group Captain Townsend. It seems possible that she can now marry him. But the Queen discusses the Royal Marriages Act with Michael Adeane. He invokes a different version of the situation. He mentions that both Houses of Parliament need to approve and the need to wait for 12 months. Still under the illusion that she is free to marry, Princess Margaret wants to announce it.Another scene shows Prince Philip teaching Prince Charles to fish so that we realise that he is quite tough on the boy. The Queen Mother voices the opinion that Prince Philip is taking it out on Charles due to the frustrations of his life. The Crown likes to think that the Queen Mother is very thick with Lascelles, in his retirement. She relied on him a bit after the King’s death but Lascelles took a dim view of her philosophy of life, considering it was best summed up in the hymn: ‘the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate’. But it gives them the idea that Prince Philip was sent by the Queen to open the Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia in November 1956 to get him out of the way, to get him away from bullying his son and in the hope, as expressed clearly in this episode, that he would come back ‘changed’. But this all happens in August 1955 and he did not undertake the voyage until October 1956.The second and final round in the Princess Margaret – Peter Townsend drama is played out. We see headlines speculating as to whether or not she is going to marry the Group Captain.Apparently Prince Philip is somewhat in league with Princess Margaret over the marriage question. Townsend returns and they run together in a passionate embrace. Then come the problems, the involvement of the Attorney-General, the threat that Lord Salisbury will resign if the marriage takes place, the Queen saying she will support her in any way she can, but then that she would be deprived of money and titles, and have to live abroad for several years as Mrs Peter Townsend. Princess Margaret claims the country is on her side. The invented words of their father about mutual support are repeated by the Queen.Then it all gets worse, with the Cabinet advising against the marriage, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Bishops reminding the Queen that she is Defender of the Faith and of the oath made at the Coronation, and finally the Queen seeking advice from the Duke of Windsor in France. He tells her ‘You must protect the kingdom’. And so, in this episode, the Queen’s line is that Princess Margaret cannot marry Townsend and remain part of the family.In reality, Eden did advise the Queen at Balmoral, but there was no involvement from the Archbishop, and the Duke of Windsor was in no position to pontificate about the role as sister and Queen, and duty to the realm.The film-makers maintain that Princess Margaret broke off from Townsend because she had been forbidden to marry him. Furthermore, she tells him she will never marry anyone else. And then Townsend makes a public statement, in fact reading much of the written statement that in reality Princess Margaret issued to the press. He then returns to Brussels.In truth, the decision was a mutual one between Princess Margaret and the Group Captain, largely based on the fact that Lascelles’s separation plan had worked and the love between them had died.None of the characters are happy at the end of this episode. Princess Margaret is seen depressed at parties, and Peter Townsend sitting forlornly alone in his apartment in Brussels. Prince Philip is angry at being sent away on the long tour.The situation with Nasser in Egypt is flagged up during this episode, meetings with Eden, more pills being taken and in the end, Anthony Eden slumped in front of burning cine-film of Nasser, having just stuck a needle full of drugs into his arm – followed by an image of the Queen posing in tiara and evening dress, next to the Crown Jewels which have been brought to the Palace for effect. She is shown as an assured and confident young monarch while the ever-frustrated Prince Philip drives off down the Mall in his open care, all alone, looking distinctly fed up.I should be grateful that it is Cecil Beaton who gets the last word in both this series and Series two, extolling the virtues of monarchy with Shakespearean lines. Nevertheless Claire Foy’s Queen looks ominously sad.

拍英国皇室的大制作美剧，制作非常精致，配乐优雅有时代特征。

大多数人物是皇室成员和上流社会成员，英音发音非常高雅。

至于女王，隐忍富有责任感是公认的了，没什么可说的。

华丽的服饰和首饰，宽敞的宫殿和摆设，仆人秘书一大堆，高高在上的地位，这些东西绝大多数人终其一生也无法拥有的。

而她所遭遇到的工作上的困难和家庭矛盾，地位比她低得多的人照样会有，而且不会更少的。

所以我还是很羡慕她的生活的。

飞利浦亲王的演员长得连普通都算不上了，一大败笔。

女王明显是外貌协会的，才会选择菲利普亲王做老公的，忽略了他的纳粹背景和大嘴巴。

女王两姐妹长相非常相似的，都像父亲。

剧中，两位演员长相不像。

女王的演员，看过她演的楼上楼下，完全没认出她来，气质完全变化了，说明这位演员的可塑性还是很强的，但是她并没有演出女王的高贵气质。

这点远不如电影《女王》里的老演员。

玛格丽特公主的演员形象比姐姐好，可能演个性活泼的角色更容易演活人物。

玛格丽特公主在第七集的宴会演讲和矿井的采访讲话很幽默，她有她的优点，适合做脱口秀主持人或者栋笃笑艺人，但是言行过度随意不符合皇室成员的行为准则。