Series two opens with a scene implying that the marriage of the Queen and Prince Philip was so desperate that they would have liked to divorce. There is much talk of Prince Philip playing second fiddle, complaining, whingeing and whining, and the Queen feeling humiliated. This scene comes aft...
原文链接The fourth season ofThe Crownstretches from May 1979, when Margaret Thatcher is elected Britain’s first female prime minister, to Christmas 1990, shortly after she has been drummed out of office. Peter Morgan, the show’s creator, tells us: “We do our very, very best to get it...
原文链接The Crownhas now produced series three, which covers the years 1964 to 1977. Some will say that they can suspend judgment as to whether it is true or not and simply enjoy it as “good drama”. I understand this point of view, and I daresay there are viewers who are intelligent...
InThe Crown, Princess Margaret is effectively given the choice of staying in the royal family or marrying Peter Townsend, a divorcee, and therefore getting expelled from her royal duties. While that is mostly true to real life, it was discovered in 2004 that the then-PM Sir Anthony Eden had...
Princess Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, has said that series four of The Crown is an "accurate dramatisation" of the events surrounding the princess.
1) "Lugou Bridge, a 266.5-meter-long stone bridge in Beijing's outskirts, has a history of more than 800 years. It is one of the city's famous historic sites. What interest people most about the bridge are the stone lions carved on the columns of the bridge railings. Each column is...
However, Dr Martin Farr, senior lecturer in contemporary British history at Newcastle University, told me the show's portrayal of the relationship between the Queen and Thatcher is exaggerated. "The primary priority of the palace is always to have clear and open channels of communication with Down...
An accurate history of Voumard is not easy to determine. The Voumard name has been present in the Jura region of Switzerland since the early 1800s, in the manufacture of clocks, watches and watch cases. Voumard Montres SA were responsible for a very large number of brand name registrations ...
Yes. The prince's obsession with teddy bears is accurate. It's also true that he wanted them arranged a certain way on his bed (and then in various spots around the room at bedtime). According to former maid Charlotte Briggs viaThe Sun, his 72 plush bears had to be arranged in order...
Its main point—that the resurrection of Jesus Christ two thousand years ago is the single event in the history of the world so important that upon its veracity hangs the meaning of everything before and after it—is laid out in brilliant and bold simplicity. But, as is sometimes necessary...