Robert Shares Difficult News with the Queen | The Crown (Imelda Staunton, Andrew Havill)

[@josephthomasjr.6551]

I swear, the more I watch Imelda Staunton the more I love her. What a SUPERLATIVE actress!!!

[@BunnyWatson-k1w]

She was amazing in that film about abortion.

[@dolinaj1]

Was she not in AbFab?!

[@maciejnaruszewicz7745]

"Modernity is not always the anwser... Sometimes antiquity is too" - one of my favorite quotes from that season and so applicable to our times

[@hueyhampton3213]

Antiquity played out abolish all the monarchies 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@ilikemandalorians9861]

@@hueyhampton3213with the far-right on the rise, I don’t think the instability of regime change and more avenues for them to gain power is the right move right now

[@AndyBluebear-fi9om]

Antiquity is what is holding us back.

[@journeymancellist9247]

I haven’t yet watched this final season… methinks I should.

[@spencerbuchanan95]

“Learned experience” > “lived experience.”

[@jimcarter8034]

I met Robert Fellowes in Bermuda during the (last) tour of the Royal Yacht Britannia. He was terribly skilled at keeping things moving along, without seeming to offend people who talked for too long as The Queen moved along the line. 🙂

[@whatbringsmepeace]

So many people she had to let go of in her lifetime. It's almost like being immortal.

[@carrickrichards2457]

'An extraordianry array of precious expertise'. It is easy to tear down a millenium of tradition in a moment, easiest when done carelessly, with only superficial understanding. Much harder to evolve complex systems rationally, carefully, constructively, with consensus... hardest to pick up the pieces behind careless or thoughtless reformers!

[@elijahherndon6037]

Especially reformers whose sole concern are a better public image and a more palatable bottom line

[@KevinN-df8eo]

Very well said.

[@Bariom_dome]

Like Mao and his Cultural Revolution. Now, that was a major disaster.

[@Fuzz32]

I heard a Turkish wine maker say once,” To build a culture takes hundreds of generations. But if you want to lose a culture, one generation is enough.” And once they’re gone, it’s nearly impossible to bring them back.

[@Effective_tool_of_Satan]

Yes, it is easy, because it is empty

[@planningto]

He was a truly excellent man. He died in 2024. I recommend finding out what his brother-in-law, Earl Spencer, said about him.

[@johnmunro4952]

It's odd to see anyone but Michael Sheen playing Blair.

[@effkay3691]

I thought they were the same person

[@jena.alexia]

Lol. Me too.

[@effkay3691]

I do love a British series. Always easy to watch. No nonsense and carry on.

[@lynnmcculloch-m4h]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@treyb2874]

It’s funny that the Queen calls Robin a young man. He’d have been 52 at the time, and only 5 years younger than Robert.

[@mikestrohm3271]

Robin Janvrin was my divisional officer at HMS Ganges in 1974

[@patrickgardner4861]

Going to have to revisit this amazing series

[@sushicourier]

You know they'd love to hug each other, but of course that's impossible.

[@steveadams9957]

No it's not ive seen her hug people even kiss people its against protocol but shes been known to break protocol from time to time protocol is not really a law if she reaches in fir a hug 1st than ine should oblige but not without the invitation too

[@sushicourier]

@steveadams9957 Oh, sure... I just mean in their particular boss/worker dynamic and knowing each other for so long they'd have so much love and good feeling for each other, but they'd need to remain "Queen and subject."

[@wholeNwon]

I've watched only a few minutes of this here and there but it's amazing to me that the people who directed it do no know how one properly left the presence of the Queen.

[@dezzaofoz]

Did the PM just sit down before the Queen?

[@thomasdalton1508]

At the Queen's invitation.

[@lanslarrazabaldemartinez6829]

Her Majesty's secretary was the husband of Princess Diana's sister.

[@ag8313-i4m]

True, once the Queen remarked that he was the only one of her secretaries that she held as a baby

[@positivepessimist6853]

Yes, we all know that 🙄

[@NatalieRabuzin]

Private secretary eventually and later after retirement Baron Fellows...

[@lanslarrazabaldemartinez6829]

@@positivepessimist6853 Zz ..zz ...

[@NatalieRabuzin]

@@positivepessimist6853 I was replying to the tag line...thank you...

[@Me-fo1kk]

Yes. Theres a time to say farewell. Ok so tradition is the pin. Sometimes you have to get a new one

[@mortalclown3812]

No surfeit of words in that world, mates.

[@youraccountingprofessor5013]

Bon chance getting a soldier, sailor, airman or marine to lay down his life for "modernity". Antiquity and tradition are what most people fight, and are willing to die, for.

[@Ashbrash1998]

Don't think any young soldiers will want to die for the colonies or the KKK. People fight and die for love and values. Traditions are mistaken for routines because it's something people have always had and will have.

[@KnellofPartingDay]

​@@Ashbrash1998 The KKK and "the colonies" are how you define the salient elements of our past?

[@thardingau]

Why is the lighting so dark?

[@temitopeaina617]

Because this is England and it rains alot

[@theshlauf]

It's not just the rain. They like making everything dark and dreary because they think it makes everything more dramatic. Every room lit like a cold cave. Even though lamps exist in real life.

[@NakiaD.Y.Halevi-Yang]

It's dark because this is a country that still has kings and queens in the 21st century. It's a country that has lived in the past and the past is very dark.

[@stirlingmoss4621]

@@NakiaD.Y.Halevi-Yang Leave!

[@NakiaD.Y.Halevi-Yang]

👍 okay. I am on my way out as I write this reply to a more progressive country. I am going to a place where my excellent U.K. education as a physician will actually pay me what I am worth! Thank you 😊.

[@adamwatkins1150]

I wish the Queen had asked him for a hug there. It would have been just right.

[@deanmthomson]

No. We’re British.

[@steveadams9957]

In keeping with her allways be so stoic i guess they didn't add that i have seen her break protocol by hugging and kissing people she even broke protocol a more severe form by bowing her head as the monarch bows to no one at Diana's funeral she did ive her cry a few times i heard she would tell all her troubles to her horses and dogs because they cant repeat anything. Its rather quite a sad life she lived never being a wofe mother the things she really wanted to be she gave up all that she was for the crown thus the saying heavy is the head that wears the crown i think only camilla wanted it because i don't think she understood the responsibility of it

[@steveadams9957]

These were not happy people they led a very sheltered life alone and never being able to air your dreams speak your mind have an opinion it was almost robotic in a way

[@adamwatkins1150]

@@deanmthomson As exceedingly rare the occasion may be, even the British have feelings.

[@adamwatkins1150]

@@steveadams9957 Camilla really blossomed the last couple decades into it. I think she is handling it beautifully and not at all like the nags thought.

[@MiltonNgaruhe]

I must not tell lies... is all I'll remember her for...

[@RoseRedd-k4b]

The queen got on my nerves in this episode

[@MrStarguy17]

I swear watching this scene almost had me in tears

[@springstud]

i am from USA who was robert to the Queen

[@TheBrokeashell]

​@@springstudher private secretary

[@Filauriga]

​@@springstudI think private secretary

[@springstud]

@@Filauriga thank you

[@kylepellerinmjfmtributeartist]

Can you upload King Kong 1976 please?

[@TheKobasen]

Dolores umbridge become the queen?? 😱😱😱

[@mountbatten2222]

MODERNITY ITSELF IS NOT A QUALITY ! DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT JUST TO BE MODERN IS A NAIVE APPROACH TO CHANGE SITUATIONS AND HAS PROVEN COUNTLESS TIMES WRONG !

[@AndyBluebear-fi9om]

Modernity isn't about doing something different for the sake of doing something different.

[@mountbatten2222]

@@AndyBluebear-fi9om IF IT ISN´T; WHAT IS IT THEN ?

[@AndyBluebear-fi9om]

@@mountbatten2222 Advancing.

[@mountbatten2222]

@@AndyBluebear-fi9om THAT´S PROGRESS !

[@AndyBluebear-fi9om]

@@mountbatten2222 Which is modernity.

[@normanwandsworth]

Do they really live in complete darkness? 😱

[@Jimmehftw]

Don't forget Britain, you paid taxes for that.

[@Bodybuilder1945]

1: This is a drama NOT a history 2: The Sovereign Grant for last year was near £86.3 MILLON, given in return for the Crown passing to the Treasury £1.1 BILLION from the Crown Estates.

[@christophereichten9005]

@@Bodybuilder1945Be quiet John Bull

[@Me-fo1kk]

Yes some mothers do have 'em

[@LazyDaisyDay88]

Our taxes also pay £44billion (ONS) on benefits for the ill and disabled, £2billion on unemployment, £46billion on income support and tax credits, £111billion on pensions and £35billion on personal social services. Paying for the monarchy is a drop in the ocean...

[@christophereichten9005]

@ Something tells me you don’t like your government’s social safety net. Do you dream of a return to the days before WWI?

[@Exasperatedgolf]

And who elected her !!!! Nobody, NMK !!

[@kathleendobens6648]

Never liked that monarchy. USA USA. We fought for independence can anyone see why today?

[@fragilefred3383]

No

[@lukestevens8735]

No, we have a boring stability and a determination to keep moving forward at our own pace. The US seems so self-destructive at the moment. The Brits haven't hated each other as much as American seem to do since the English Civic War almost 500years ago.

[@tareasytrabajosadolfoarian4849]

Yeah Fentanyl, decadence of the family, and empty traditions like forgive a turkey

[@tareasytrabajosadolfoarian4849]

Yeah Fentanyl, decadence of the family, and empty traditions like forgive a turkey

[@CMOT101]

And yet you all fawn over the Royal family and are desperate to have the same tradition and culture. You are such a bunch of hypocrites.