S03E01 ‘OLDING’
Anthony Blunt: We all tell ourselves all sorts of things to make sense of the past. So much thousands of our fabrications if we tell them to ourselves awfully enough become the truth, you know, in our minds and in everyone else’s.
S03E02 ‘MARGARETOLOGY’
The Duke of Edinburgh: Alongside that dull, dutiful, reliable, heroic stream, runs another, the dazzling, the brilliant, the individualistic, and dangerous. So, for every Victoria you get an Edward VII, for every George V you get a Prince Eddy, for every George VI you get an Edward VIII, for every Lilibet you get a Margaret.
S03E03 ‘ABERFAN’
Harold Wilson: I have never done a day’s manual work in my life, not one. I’m an academic, a privileged Oxford don, not a worker. I don’t like beer. I prefer brandy. I prefer wild salmon to tinned salmon, Chateaubriand to steak and kidney pie. And I don’t like pipe smoking. I far prefer cigars. But cigars are a symbol of capitalist privilege. So I smoke a pipe on a campaign trail when on television. It makes me more approachable, likable. We can’t be everything to everyone and still be true to ourselves. We do what we have to do as leaders. That’s our job. Our job is to calm more crisis than we create. That’s our job and you do it very well indeed. In a way, your absence of emotion is a blessing. No one needs hysteria from the head of state. And the truth is, we barely need humanities.
S03E04 ‘BUBBIKINS’
The Queen: No human being is ideal. Only god is ideal, which is why I’d favoured the royal family being kept out of sight, out of mind, for our own survival and sanity. But the thing is we can’t be hidden away. We have to be in full view all the time. So what’s the answer? The best we’ve come up with so far is ritual and mystery because it keeps us hidden while still in plain sight. The smoke and the mirrors, the mystery and the protocol, it’s not there to keep us apart, it is there to keep us alive.
S03E05 ‘COUP’
The Queen: On days like today, in places like this, in company like this, you get a glimpse of what it all might have been like, the unlived life, and how much happier it might have made me.
The Queen: Doing nothing is exactly what we do, and abide our time, and wait for the people that voted him in to vote him out again if indeed that is what they decide to do.
S03E06 ‘TYWYSOG CYMRU’
Prince Charles: I have a beating heart, a character, and mind and will of my own. I am not just a symbol. I can lead not just by a uniform or by cutting a ribbon but by showing people who I am. Mommy, I have a voice.
The Queen: Let me let you into a secret: No one wants to hear it.
S03E07 ‘MOONDUST’
The Queen: They never wanted to be public figures. And now because of one event they will be forever.
The Duke of Edinburgh: They delivered as astronauts, they disappointed as human beings.
S03E08 ‘DANGLING MAN’
Prince Charles: Dear Uncle David, I want to thank you again and Wallis for having me at your home in the Bois de Boulogne. It’s a rare thing fate should allow a former king and the king-in-waiting to meet. To tell the truth it opened my eyes to a few things, including the nature of kingship, the nature of love, and all the difficulties that go with both. I’m sure you know that the family would have preferred me not to visit you, afraid perhaps I might recognize myself in you, sympathize with you. Well let me confess that I do recognize myself in you, your progressiveness and flair, your individuality and imagination. What a king you would have made in a kinder world! What a king we were denied! It makes me so sad to see you living in exile. And all you did was to take a stand for principle and love one woman completely. You were cruelly denied your right to reign alongside the woman that you wanted by your side. But I give you my word, I would not be denied what you have been denied. The crown is not a static thing, resting forever on one head. It is moving, alive, divine. They change in face and change in times. And if, God willing, it has been ordained that I should wear it, then I shall do so on my own terms, and hopefully make you proud.
S03E09 ‘IMBROGLIO’
The Queen: To realize that elusive state of being a happy family is a tireless struggle, a battle. But it is a battle worth fighting, for there’s nothing in life to match it. The right kind of partnership, with the right kind of partner, is the foundation on which a successful family must rest. Marriage is a proposition some in the modern world would question, but it is a proposition about which when asked I can reply plainly and unequivocally, I am for it.
S03E10 ‘CRI DE COEUR’
Princess Margaret: It’s only fallen apart if we say it has. That’s the thing about the monarchy. We paper over the cracks. And if what we do is loud, grand, confident enough, no one will notice all around us is falling apart. That’s the point of us. Not us, you. You cannot flinch. Because if you show a single crack, we’ll see it isn’t a crack but a chasm, and we’ll all fall in it. So you must hold it altogether.
The Queen: Must I do that alone?
Princess Margaret: There is only one Queen.
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