We know by this point that Margaret is insufferable, but that doesn’t mean it’s healthy for her to remain in a toxic marriage, the evidence of which is strewn about her bedroom. As a result, a lot of the historical moments feel crammed in, and certain Crown-worthy events are ignored completely (i.e., Princess Anne’s 1973 wedding and the 1974 attempted kidnapping of her). Timeline-wise, this episode is all over the place: Even though much of the action is restricted to Margaret’s scandalous (for the time) affair with the much-younger Roddy Llewellyn, whom she met in 1973, it also needed to cover the 1974 general election that saw Harold Wilson returning as prime minister, Wilson’s 1976 resignation, and the queen’s jubilee in June 1977. It’s played down in the episode, but the queen’s agreeing to, and even encouraging, the eventual 1978 divorce between Margaret and Tony set an important precedent regarding marital dissolution within the royal family. Margaret’s importance also cannot be underestimated when it comes to the inevitable conclusion of her ill-fated marriage to Antony Armstrong-Jones. She is the one to provide her sister with the sage advice she so desperately needed to move the royal family forward.Īs Elizabeth prepares to celebrate her Silver Jubilee, she finds herself filled with self-doubt, taking the blame for a country that’s “fallen apart.” Margaret must remind her sister that her job is to “paper over the cracks,” something we already know Elizabeth has perfected over the years, because most of her speeches this season seemed to be about how the royal family’s purpose is built on the concept of smoke and mirrors. By at last accepting the role that she spent decades fighting against - serving and supporting Elizabeth - Margaret fulfills a greater purpose than anyone else in this episode. But it’s because, as “Cri de Coeur” shows, Elizabeth still cannot survive without Margaret and vice versa.
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Photo: Sophie Mutevelian / Netdflix/Courtesy of Sophie Mutevelian / NetflixĪt first glance, it’s perplexing that The Crown, a TV series about the queen, devoted its season-three finale to Princess Margaret. Because if you show a single crack, we’ll see it isn’t a crack, but a chasm.
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