fair play to those that love it

 

Emma Corrin as Princess Diana, in "The Crown"

I love to look at The Guardian, find an article about The Crown, and then see what British people say about it.

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^^  and class, of course, the great divide in England in the way race is in the US.

Thatcher was very definitely not the right sort.

^^  The lack of a head of state is one of the problems the U.S. system has.  It's bad for civic cohesion when the person tasked with all of the acts of public symbolism and unity is also a faction leader in a nakedly partisan and adversarial legislative system.

^^  Serious question:  has there ever been a person who has led as dull a life as the queen, in which she has actually done so little, but has been the subject of so many films and TV series?

DesOlationROw

     ^^  You can put all the inbreds jangling their jewellery on all you want.  It's still shit on a stick.

^^  This being the Graun...it is perhaps unsurprising there are so many whinging republicans who would rather we had Vladimir Putin, George Bush or Donald Trump than a constitutional monarch who has to spout the bollocks written by her ministers, and meet the morons that Theresa May fancies

rory murray

     ^^  Oh please, she does not HAVE to do any of these things.  She can become one of the world's richest private individuals tomorrow, should she choose to.  And republicans don't want to replace her with an executive president (as your comparisons erroneously imply), just a head of state chosen by the people.  

     We've had lovely ones in Ireland in recent years.  UK should try it.

^^  Facts don't have sell-by dates.  Britain is a constitutional monarchy, and this mode of government, although eccentric, has proved to be extremely stable--not just here but in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and post-Franco Spain.

Setting up a successful republic is quite difficult and requires a level of constitutional genius not normally found outside late 18th-century America.  And certainly not in 20-21st century Russia.

It's a testimony to the Founding Fathers that they at least saw Trump coming but it's proving a very stern test of the Constitution.  And the American system is, I think we would all agree, far from perfect with eccentricities of its own.

^^  are these dramas made by all the same people?  victoria etc etc, netflix can whistle dixie, as i won't be paying to see this pig's-trough of a series, rank rotten acting, bog rotten story, coming to channel 5 ....very soon!

-------------------------- ^ Blimey.  You got out of bed the wrong side

^^  Impressive that you can judge the acting without watching.

It's almost like you have pre-conceived opinions.

^^  The Guardian's rush to the cultural wasteland continues unabated.

Mick James

     ^^  They've started to review the programmes on the new fangled "television sets" that are becoming such an unwelcome feature of the British living room, particularly among the lower classes.

----------------------- Mikey 247    ^ Do you  mean the drawing or sitting room?

^^  Articles about this programme do seem to attract people who are keen to tell us that they hate it, but haven't actually watched it.

^^  I watched it, got bored with it but fair play to those that love it.  Just wasn't my thing

Geoff1940

     ^^  I've lived through it all (I remember singing 'God save the king' at school).  Why would I want to watch it all over again?

It's a series directed at the USA where there seems to be a significant minority (I hope it's not a majority) who seem to be obsessed by the Windsors.

---------------------------- ^ The Yanks, poor things, are trapped in a federal republic in which the head of state and the head of government are one and the same.

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