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.”

[@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

[@johnmunro4952]

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

[@effkay3691]

I thought they were the same person

[@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.

[@patrickgardner4861]

Going to have to revisit this amazing series

[@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.

[@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...

[@dezzaofoz]

Did the PM just sit down before the Queen?

[@thomasdalton1508]

At the Queen's invitation.

[@effkay3691]

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

[@Me-fo1kk]

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

[@whatbringsmepeace]

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

[@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 😊.

[@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.

[@sushicourier]

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

[@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

[@adamwatkins1150]

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

[@normanwandsworth]

Do they really live in complete darkness? 😱

[@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.

[@Exasperatedgolf]

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

[@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?

[@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.