Tag: Prime Minister Tony Blair
The Crown’s Finale Shows Why the Monarchy Is Eternal
I’m going to miss The Crown. At its best, it has been alternately soothing, nostalgic, and educational, and even at its worst, it has always been well acted and gorgeous.
Unfortunately, the second half of the sixth and final season is very much The Crown at its worst. These six episodes, released yesterday on Netflix, are an unfocused canter around the paddock of the late 1990s and early 2000s: Prince William turns 18, Prince Charles finally makes an honest
The Petulant King – The Atlantic
A difficult labor—30 hours!—and someone has to make the terrible decision. Right there in a Buckingham Palace bedroom, with mother and child etherized upon the table, deft hands make the cut, the unwilling baby is tugged out—and it’s done.
A boy! Clever girl.
To sleep, to sleep, to sleep.
Posted on the gates of the palace, a handwritten announcement: