Let me say at the off that I was dreading this series of The Crown. After the Diana episodes that ended with her death, the lights seemed to go out. And who wants to watch the younger royals at play? They’re just not that interesting: Wills, Kate, Harry. As for Meghan, well, fortunately this stops before her day. And the inexorable rise of Camilla isn’t something I care to dwell on.
There wouldn’t be any excitements in store, I grumbled – not like the Bolshevik murder of the Romanovs which kicked off an episode about Prince Philip in Series Five; nor the genuine drama of poor Princess Margaret’s romance with Peter Townsend, which she gave up for the sake of the Church of England’s teaching on marriage.
