The Crown 6 on Netflix: plot, the ending, Elizabeth and William

Sseven years of The Crown. Seven years, more or less, since the swoon for Elizabeth’s youth at the Golden Jubilee of 2002. In between, cast changes, Diana and Dodi, Camilla emerging from the shadows, Margaret, Philip’s story. A long journey between novel and reality has reached the end of The Crown 6 – the second part of the series was released yesterday on Netflix – with very short breath. The love story between William and Kate – long awaited – it’s a pale skirmish, the actors (Ed McVey and Meg Bellamy) mediocre, the credibility towards an imminent future with Carlo set aside in favor of his young and Disney-like king son, a crazy idea. And certainly not because Dominic West shines with royal charm.

But, did anyone really think there was room for recovery after Phantom Diana? After Elizabeth’s speech on the death of the princess lit like a fast food kitchen, not to mention the wig passed under a truck? The problem, in the progression of the series towards the infamous modernity of the Nokia 3310 by William ed Elizabeth who agrees to review the costs of her immense staff, including the person in charge of the mute swans, it’s just that everything is becoming dangerously too modern. And badly interpreted.

Not the cool modernity of Diana’s looks, still here to act as a style guide, if we were lucky enough with his physique. Rather, that of Tony Blair (Bertie Carvel), who would (precisely) make the swan manager disappear, when – if you did a poll on him – he would certainly be voted as the star of a tasty spin off.

«The monarchy – says the queen in fact – it is not rational, it has no logic. Sometimes the answer is not modernity, but antiquity. People want magic.” Buckingham and the other residences are a circus, a papier-mâché set on which Meghan, a young American tourist, was also photographed. However, the most sensational royal death and his mystery, the stories of the butlers and Philip’s mother, the worn sweatshirts of the two university students destined for the kingdom have been exhausted they can’t give the same magic.

Whoever remains, therefore, in the brutal period of the late nineties and with the approval rating falling? Elizabeth, to whom The Crown returns reiterating its centrality. The extra small size of Imelda Staunton it then gives her an even more vulnerable dimension, there among a son lost in his first love and a nephew (still with all his hair) who he advises to enjoy it while he can. She moves forward, but the circular ending appears quite merciless, in open opposition to a queen who, at that juncture, was more smiling and more incisive.

Yet something is saved.

The Crown 6the plot of the second part

England is in the grip of Willsmania, the 15-year-old prince – handsome, young and resembling his mother even in his melancholy – warms the crowds after the long mourning. But William is restless, he is angry with his father. Who accuses him of having been disinterested in his mother to the point of waging war against her through the newspapers, and leaving her alone with that Dodi. Filippo arrives to settle things between the two, and everything is smoothed out like in fairy tales.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth, still affected by the blame she received for the silence about Diana, asks Tony Blair – the great director and beneficiary of organizing the funeral of the century. Cuts and concessions must be made. But instead of reducing, she conserves. He is not the prime minister of a caretaker government. And when Blair begins to lose consensus, she is mephistolicly very satisfied.

However, like us mortals, pleasure is replaced by an existential crisis: what to do if no one shows up for the Golden Jubileeeven worse if they boo her.

The thought of William consoles hernext to university and future of the whole kingdom (number two, Harry, it is treated as an accident, Peter Morgan doesn’t put anything interesting in his mouth except «university is sex and books, go for it, dear brother»). And St Andrews University there’s also a certain Kate Middletonformer baby fan of the prince sent by her mother to Scotland for a possible union.

Except that she is there capsizes it’s now overindeed, after a privileged outburst from the prince, William disgusts her now. Nonetheless, dumped the boyfriend and with a change of mind faster than a subway pickpocket, he soon returns to considering him the excellent match he once was. That is, when she is about to flee from her by threatening to leave school.

While then Mohamed Al Fayed organizes a commission of inquiry into his son’s accident on suspicion of royal conspiracy, which fails with the declaration of England as a “zombie nation that still lived in caves at the time of the pyramids”, Margaret dies. Followed by the Queen Mother. Two almost fatal blows for Elisabetta. Who seeks the closeness of William, freshly engaged to Kate, this bubbly girl from Berkshire with whom he is going to go to live (along with other friends from uni) in a house on Hope Street (road of hope, ed.).

At this point, The Crown becomes «traveling with my aunt-grandmother»an ideal trip in which she tells him about the period in Malta with Filippo, at Villa Guardamangia, before the throne and the colorful suits, the handbags and the umbrellas, also of the rebuke to Berlusconi. «May this new home of yours become what the Villa was for me. Much love, Grandma», says the note that accompanies the gift photo of her and the prince consort.

Margaret’s death in Ritzthe best episode

Not only the mute swan health and welfare officerthe other character certainly highly rated for an ideal spin off of The Crown And Margaret. What’s better than a high-class loser as a series star. Spoiled, bored, an inveterate smoker and drinker, obedient but rebellious to her sister Elizabeth, the unhappy princess with the lovers dismissed by the queen and the retreat of revelers on the Caribbean island of Mustiqueends badly.

No scoop, but of the anti-spectacular recounting of the facts that close the serieshis tragedy, all closed in the episode Ritz, is the one described best. The credit goes entirely to Lesley Manvilleextraordinary actress as she was Helena Bonham Carter. Progressively reduced in movement due to a sequence of heart attacks, Margaret approaches her death, first with a glimmer of resistance and rehabthen abdicating destiny.

Elizabeth observes her, helpless to give consolation while a tear falls on his sisterlonely and annoying as only when you are reduced to statues. It would have been a masterpiece if the family agreement had stopped here. That is, without the intersection of the night spent at the Ritz, when the two Windsor girls celebrated the end of the war and then returned to Buckingham at dawn.

But it’s not serious. Margaret who finally remains nailed to the gate of the palace, already an adult and passed awayrepays by Diana-ghost who returns to torment the living with feelings of guilt.

Elizabeth, the final reunion of queens like Yoda, Obi-Wan and Anakin

Seeing this trinity, the mind immediately runs to that image of Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin (also Darth Vader without mask: Luke’s dad – spoiler) in the final scene of Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Here, however, the reunion is between sister queens.

Between Claire Foythe beloved Elizabeth of youth, Olivia ColmanElizabeth in the third and fourth seasons of The CrownAnd Imelda Staunton. The idea of ​​the actresses supporting the latest to play the queen – released by Netflix and immediately read as a possible dramatic pattern of interaction between the various sovereigns – she fell early.

The ghosts of the Elizabeths of the past are used as pure oleography, a holy card of the series in itself. Probably as a tribute to the casting director’s work in these seven, more or less, years of work and auditions. Tiring, certainly less precise and accurate than the perfect Rossella O’Hara-Vivien Leigh.

Kate Middleton’s fashion show and the transparent dress that made William fall in love

In the episode Hope street there is also the scene of legendary charity parade The Art of Seduction, with Kate modeling for a day. A show organized by the university on March 26, 2002 and gone down in history as the event that made William finally fall in love. The Crown reconstructs the catwalk with William and Kate single, according to the news the two boys were instead seeing other people, despite already being intimate.

But, whatever the sentimental situation, in the series we see Kate – aware of William in the audience – mischievously choosing a transparent, strapless dress. Objective, to make the prince’s jaw drop. Which in fact rolls to the ground.

Apart from the dress which is an alteration of the original created by Charlotte Toddlater sold at auction for 78 thousand pounds, there is no certainty that Kate chose it intentionally to provoke. What Todd remembers is that it wasn’t assigned to her, much less in the dress version; the concept was in fact that of a transparent skirt which, if desired, could be worn as a dress.

The Crown then he explains the after party. In the ways in which it has been widely described by patrons and friends of the upcoming couple, that is, with several drinks and William complimenting Kate and then gives her a kiss (for some on the hand, for others on the face). But not with the bodyguard who interrupts the pigeons with the news that the Queen Mother has died (it happened on March 30th of the same year).

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