I had no idea I'd be picked up by my daughter-in-law driving from Oklahoma. I thought my son was going to pick me up. Edmond, Oklahoma, is about three and a half hours by car from Dallas. MDT, landing at Love Field in Dallas at 10:55 a.m., CDT. My flight was scheduled to leave at 8:00 a.m. Now, Denver is an hour and a half by air from Dallas. Thursday morning a little after 5 a.m., as my husband was driving me to Denver International Airport, I got a text from my daughter-in-law, mother of said grandchildren. So I went to Texas to celibrate with them. And two of whom were born October 15, fourteen and nine years ago respectively. I have three grandchildren, one of whom was born October 17, seventeen years ago. I certainly won't hold any of the real people to the historical fiction I enjoyed binge-watching.Īnd by-the-bye the video of the making of a crown during the opening titles is fascinating.ĭenver International Airport Security lines And if it's not exactly all true, that's okay. The thing for me is that The Crown is a good story, well told. Some of them don't get the rosiest of treatments. I do think it would be interesting to know what the British Royals think of it.
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I don't know how historically accurate the series is.
I was especially taken with the use of silences in the dialogue. The writing and acting throughout both seasons is excellent. I'd never before even considered how people outside the U.S. But the portrayal of Elizabeth's reaction to President Kennedy's murder, brought tears to my eyes. Why would they expect a woman who was not a subject of the queen to curtsy?Īnd I certainly don't remember the Kennedys having the kind of relationship with each other that this series portrays. Someone in the scene said sotto voce as though shocked "she didn't curtsy." That struck me as particularly odd. In the scene when the Kennedys are first introduced to the queen, one thing especially caught my attention. That must have been during his " ich bin ein berliner" visit to Germany. Politics and royalty figured not at all.Īnd I don't remember the Kennedys going to England. Of course in the 60s when I was paying attention to the Brits, it was the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Twiggy. It's interesting to me to realize that the woman I always thought of as 'grandmotherly' and 'dowdy' with her purses and hats that looked like a hydrangea on her head wasn't always all that old. I suppose because the series actually focuses on Elizabeth's own activities and those political crises were in her father's time rather than hers. What I know of British activities in India and Israel/Palestine during the late 40s is more than they discussed in the series at all. The second season covers times that you'd think I'd remember, but I guess I wasn't paying attention. So I knew little of Britain's colonial activities in the Middle East. I may have been alive during Elizabeth II's reign so far, but I've been much more vested in American goings-on than in Britain's. I probably know more about Elizabethan English history than I do about modern British history. If you pay attention, you'll see several actors from Downton.īoth seasons of The Crown are filled with opulent homes and furnishings and, what to me were unusual and on occasion mean-spirited, formalities that the Royals had to live with. It filled Downton Abbey's place in my television viewing life quite nicely. So much so, in fact, that I looked forward to the second season with great anticipation. I watched that first season and enjoyed it thoroughly. The second season begins in 1956 with England's problems in Egypt and runs through 1964. The first season was about Queen Elizabeth's life beginning with her marriage to Prince Philip in 1947 and running through 1955. He is probably more famous for being the eleventh Doctor in the long-running BBC series Doctor Who. (Please note: drama not documentary.)Ĭlaire Foy plays Elizabeth, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. The Crown created and written by Peter Morgan and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix, is a biographical drama about Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain.
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