Grappling with mental health issues, Margaret seeks help and discovers an appalling secret about estranged relatives of the royal family.Grappling with mental health issues, Margaret seeks help and discovers an appalling secret about estranged relatives of the royal family.Grappling with mental health issues, Margaret seeks help and discovers an appalling secret about estranged relatives of the royal family.
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- TriviaDerek 'Dazzle' Jennings was a senior civil servant in the British Government's Department of the Environment who decided to become a priest at age 38. Jennings remained Margaret's friend and spiritual advisor until the end of his life in 1995, with Margaret visiting his sickbed in his final days.
- GoofsThe institutionalization of the Bowes-Lyon sisters, Katherine (Trudie Emery) and Nerissa (Pauline Hendrickson), had nothing to do with the Crown. John "Jock" Bowes-Lyon, the brother of Elizabeth, future Queen Mother (Marion Bailey), died six years before Edward VIII's abdication, and they were placed in the Royal Earlswood Hospital by their mother Fenella in 1941, five years after King George VI ascended the throne. Princess Margaret (Helena Bonham Carter) played no part in discovering the sisters' existence, nor did she confront her mother on the subject.
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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: Then the way things suddenly changed for all of us, none of us could have foreseen it.
Princess Margaret: It? What's it?
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: Well, the abdication...
Princess Margaret: No! Not everything that is wrong with this family can be explained away by the abdication.
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: Well, the abdication *did* change everything. You were too young to understand. Everything. It's complicated.
Princess Margaret: No, it's not! It's wicked, and it's cold-hearted, and it's cruel. And it's entirely in keeping with the ruthlessness I myself have experienced in this family. If you're not first in line, if you're an individual character with individual needs, and God forbid an irregular temperament... If, if you don't fit the perfect mold of... silent, dutiful supplication, then you'll be spat out, or you'll be hidden away, or, worse, declared dead! Darwin had nothing on you lot. Shame on all of you.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards (2021)
- SoundtracksC'est si bon
Music by Henri Betti
French lyrics by André Hornez
English lyrics by Jerry Seelen
Performed by Dean Martin
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- Nov 15, 2020
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- Runtime50 minutes
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- 2.00 : 1