A Spy in the Buckingham Palace | The Crown (Olivia Colman, Angus Wright, Samuel West)

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4 ай бұрын

Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) believes that Harold Wilson (Jason Watkins) has ties to the KGB, when she receives news that the spy is actually inside Buckingham Palace, the Queen finds herself in an internal conflict between containing the rumors or doing something about the traitor.
From Season 3, Episode 1: Olding
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@Warrior1Spartan 4 ай бұрын

The cinematography during his speech about truth and deceit was exquisite, especially when he hit the "two-faced" part. And I like to think that not only was he thanking the audience for listening to him, but also to the officials for letting him finish and leave with his dignity.

@girrlbyker 4 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly.

@claremontcowboy7409 3 ай бұрын

Yeah it's pretty hackneyed and obvious

@Warrior1Spartan 3 ай бұрын

@@claremontcowboy7409 Probably because that was the point of it.

@nanlars2323 Ай бұрын

Well you know the English had to do everything proper

@marek_petrovsky Ай бұрын

@@nanlars2323properly

@Maclabhruinn 3 ай бұрын

Angus Wright gives a superlative performance here as Martin Furnival Jones, head of MI5 ... he has seen plans within plans, layers of reality deeper and darker than the surface illusions most of us live our lives in; gently but firmly disabusing the Queen of her superficial suspicions for an actuality more terrible than she could imagine. Qudos to Coleman too, for the look of horror and disgust on her face as she listens to his revelation ...

@greeneyedwarlock882 4 ай бұрын

Can ANYONE imagine actually having to be that man that told the real Queen Elizabeth that horrible news??🤯😵‍💫😵

@lordmalachicarroll3770 2 ай бұрын

Head of MI5! Aka the man who doesn't exist

@Bobblenob 4 ай бұрын

He was outed to the public by Margaret Thatcher round about 1979

@martin13145 4 ай бұрын

Fun fact 1: Olivia Colman and Samuel West, who portrays Blunt in this episode, played Queen Elizabeth's parents in "Hyde Park on Hudson" in 2012. Fun fact 2: This is Samuel West's second time portraying Anthony Blunt. He previously played Blunt in the 2003 miniseries "Cambridge Spies"

@gahane 4 ай бұрын

Also, in Cambridge Spies, Imelda Staunton played Queen Elizabeth.

@Luke_05 3 ай бұрын

What’s the chance of him playing Anthony Blunt twice!? Unless that’s why they chose him for this role in the Crown aha

@martin13145 3 ай бұрын

@@Luke_05 It’s not as strange as one might think. Prasanna Puwanarajah played Martin Bashir in both the 2013 film "Diana" and in the 5th season of "The Crown".

@BNCA70 3 ай бұрын

Fun Fact 3: Sam West's mother Prunella Scales was the first actress to ever portray the Queen in TV or film in the drama A Question of Attribution [1991] which dealt with this very storyline.

@user-wh1zb6ie3y Ай бұрын

During the interrogation of Blunt by Peter Wright - MI5, (Wright had regular interviews with Blunt from 1964 to 1970) Peter was advised that he would learn of a trip to Germany by Blunt. Blunt apparently recovered documents pertaining to the Royal Family. Peter was advised not to pursue this matter. I always assumed this related to Edward VIII. Blunt made copies of what was later revealed as "Royal Correspondence" and passed it directly to the KGB. I've followed this and the Sir Roger Hollis allegations (Sir Roger is well in the clear) since 1987, and little bits and pieces continue to fall out of archives.

@TheNerdForAllSeasons 4 ай бұрын

How the hell does an art surveyor get their hands on military documents?!

@GuyIncognito575 4 ай бұрын

He worked in military intelligence during the war.

@lisadambrosio2255 4 ай бұрын

He was at the Palace for a long time. He got to know his way around - and trusted.

@DanBeech-ht7sw 4 ай бұрын

@@lisadambrosio2255no, his spying was long before. He was actually uncovered as a spy before he got the job at the Palace. They didn't bother telling Madge

@Andrew-sk1re 4 ай бұрын

He drew them up… badum tiss

@nationeer 4 ай бұрын

Art is pretty much everywhere in the palace, as it's surveyor, you just get a lot of opportunities to be near those documents and snoop around just right when no one is looking

@Muzammil_Ali_Mohammed 4 ай бұрын

Keep it coming with The Crown videos....

@back.in.december 4 ай бұрын

Yes

@AquaFonic Ай бұрын

Gosh Samuel sounds just like his father Timothy West

@daveroe4961 3 ай бұрын

Funny thing is they guy playing Blunt played the same role 20 years previously.

@lordrobert12 15 күн бұрын

This would make a great movie in and of itself!!!

@manu_val 4 ай бұрын

So Angus and Sophie do know each other.

@BNCA70 3 ай бұрын

Netflix's Crown wasn't the first to tackle this. 1991's A Question of Atribution with Prunella Scales as Queen put it to screen first. In fact Prunella became the first actress to ever portray a reigning monarch. It's rather good if anyone can find it.

@lisamcallister6534 2 ай бұрын

And she's the mother of Samuel West.

@michaelmontagu3979 Ай бұрын

I saw it years ago and thought it excellent. I'd love to see it again. Prunella Scales was very good as Queen Elizabeth. She caught so many of her attributes, so much better than in The Crown. I'd love to see it again.

@wulfrunian Ай бұрын

It is by far the better telling of the story. I have it on DVD, there’s a collection of Alan Bennett’s programmes at the BBC.

@michaelmontagu3979 Ай бұрын

@@wulfrunian That is good news. Thank you.

@iwasglad122 4 ай бұрын

If I'm not mistaken, the room in which Blunt is giving his lecture is the very same room used in the film, Red White and Royal Blue, as the 'balcony' room in Buckingham Palace during the last part of the film! It's the organ pipes that I recognise!!! God, I'm such an anorak!!! I'd love to know where in London this room is???

@sadaasdafa8635 4 ай бұрын

Most scenes of Buckingham Palace in almost any series or movie is normally filmed in Lancaster House. It’s a government building that was built by the same man who built Buckingham Palace itself.

@t.p.mckenna 4 ай бұрын

The external location the 'men from the Ministry' arrive at is 10 Carlton Terrace Gardens at the top of the Duke of York steps. Not sure where the room with the organ is, though.

@theotherside8258 Ай бұрын

I doubt he spent all that time in the royal household without recruiting or introducing others into the palace. We seem to have just assumed he only passed secrets for some reason.

@greentombdive 27 күн бұрын

Anyone know the silver-fox actor’s name?

@PrayerfullyBlessedMama 4 ай бұрын

In centuries past, wouldn’t he have been executed?

@helentonkin3348 3 ай бұрын

Yes, for sure. To be honest, the Brits will do it again if pushed. A traitor is a traitor, after all.

@Summersong2262 3 ай бұрын

Centuries past didn't really do spying the way we consider it. And realistically, you don't execute spies. You imprison them, pump them for information, and then keep them on ice, you might need to swap them for one of YOUR spies that was caught in the future. And making a fuss about 'spies' is a good way to get tourists kidnapped and accused of spying themselves.

@funny3scene 2 ай бұрын

Even at this time portrayed here America and Russia where executing spies

@davidweihe6052 Ай бұрын

You have read too much James Bond fiction, I fear.

@funny3scene Ай бұрын

@@davidweihe6052 just isn’t true at all, the Americans executed people for this after the time period depicted here

@tatata1543 4 ай бұрын

And he got away with it. If he was some pleb he would have died in jail.

@bionicgeekgrrl 4 ай бұрын

They tended to prefer to avoid further scandal. Besides sometimes they may be able to use them to feed information that they want sent for various reasons.

@jonathanwilliams1065 22 күн бұрын

I would have taken such a betrayal personally Why didn’t she?

@tatata1543 22 күн бұрын

@@jonathanwilliams1065 Self interest.

@Mikaelson_Royal 12 күн бұрын

@@jonathanwilliams1065self preservation. It would have costed more to out him than to contain him. That way, they can keep a close eye on him. Keep your enemies close.

@marioserpico2223 4 күн бұрын

The Apostles!

@tonyameredith7081 4 ай бұрын

Is the actor playing Blunt on All Creatures Great and Small?

@louiselage7740 4 ай бұрын

Yes. His name is Samuel West and he is the son of Prunella Scales (Fawlty Towers) and actor Timothy West.

@zee9134 4 ай бұрын

Yes! Siegfried Farnon

@tonyameredith7081 4 ай бұрын

@@louiselage7740 Thank you.

@tonyameredith7081 4 ай бұрын

@@zee9134 Thank you.

@juliebrosnan1329 4 ай бұрын

He has a wonderful speaking voice, so measured & clear.

@bethdumont9020 3 ай бұрын

I read Peter Wright's book Spycatcher when it came out. Wright talked about the Cambridge spy ring. Wright's book was also devoted to proving Sir Roger Hollis (Head of MI5) was also a Russian spy.

@keithammleter3824 9 күн бұрын

Wright's book was half what was already reported in newspapers and half just nonsense he made up in his vivid imagination. However, there is somewhat oblique evidence that Hollis was a Russian agent. Hollis spent some time convincing the Australian Government to set up their own civilian agency ASIO. When the then PM agreed, he asked Britain to send out an expert to help set it up. They sent Hollis, who interviewed Australian candidates for ASIO jobs and selected the weakest, least competent ones. As described in ASIO's official history published about 10 years ago, ASIO in its early years was like a bunch of goofing keystone cops.