The Crown Has Ruined The Way We Think About The Royals rhiannonev
‘I mean that’s the thing isn’t it? You know what the Queen’s like. It's all about duty – she’ll be furious!’ The news that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were stepping away from their current royal roles broke last night, while I was at dinner with friends, and this was the immediate reaction of one.
The problem is, remember what happens every time The Crown is on? We all watch it, eagerly googling things like ‘Did Princess Margaret meet the President of the USA, get drunk, recite limericks and save the UK economy while Olivia Coleman sat at home looking sad that she didn’t get to go to The White House?’ And, as entertaining as the show is you’ll usually find out that no, not exactly … but something like it happened.
But it all goes to show that for most of our lives, while the monarchy has been everywhere, we’ve known very little about its members. And anything we do know has been filtered heavily by the teams that support them. Any details you get in The Crown seem all the more fascinating, then – you’ve often barely even heard rumour of them before. It’s a history that is still playing out – where the characters are still in our lives - ‘new history’ almost. And it’s very alluring.
Maybe it doesn’t matter – maybe it’s just dinner table chat. It certainly sparked things on in Giraffe last night. But actually, it probably is problematic in the sense that it makes us think of these people as characters that we ‘know’ - and therefore can judge.
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