@This and all the seasons definitely reflects how I have always viewed Queen Elizabeth.
She has a misguided view of to me what any "sovereign" or political figure should be which is a human being first with compassion and care for the people she or he serves, not loyalty to some outdated and ridiculous rules that mean nothing to anyone but those who are rigidly following them.
Aside from the movie, I think this was acurately portrayed in real life as the Queen's belief that no message of condolence was due to "her subjects" on Diana's death, nor her even awareness of how the English people and the world felt about the "People's Princess." Maybe she felt again that the "crown" does not get involved in this, in a now non-royal's life, just as portrayed in the movie when she said: (paraphrasing). 'The crown visits hospitals, it does not go to accidents, even after hundreds of children tragically died.'
From the people's reaction to her non response at the time of that disaster, you would think she would have learned, years later.
So many times it seems she wanted to do something, the right something, but was persuaded not to yet with any strength of character, morality or true compassion or empathy, she would have stuck to her views and carried them out!
It all seems ridiculous observances without care for common sense or compassion, love or empathy even for close family members.
I find I am getting disgusted and angry and incredulous all over again with the whole stupidity and "cruelty," (a word used several times by Philip), of it all.
Hopefully the new generation of monarchs will keep the pomp and circumstance, ritual and ridiculous rules to a minimum while doing what they should have always done and that is to serve the people just as every public official with any sense of humanity should.
I wonder if she really said or thought as she did in the series, that she knew something was wrong with her, that there was something missing and that she didn't and couldn't cry so many times.
Or that the prime minister Wilson said that they barely needed humanity to do their jobs. He also talks about lack of emotion miight be a good thing, that no one needs hysteria in a time of crisis. Who said emotion had to mean hysteria!
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