A Spy in the Buckingham Palace | The Crown (Olivia Colman, Angus Wright, Samuel West)
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Published 2024-02-12
From Season 3, Episode 1: Olding
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The Crown is based on Queen Elizabeth II as a young newlywed faced with leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. The British Empire is in decline, and the political world is in disarray, but a new era is dawning. Peter Morgan's masterfully researched scripts reveal the Queen's private journey behind the public façade with daring frankness. Prepare to see into the coveted world of power and privilege behind the locked doors of Westminster and Buckingham Palace.
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All Comments (21)
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The cinematography during his speech about truth and deceit was exquisite, especially when he hit the "two-faced" part. And I like to think that not only was he thanking the audience for listening to him, but also to the officials for letting him finish and leave with his dignity.
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Angus Wright gives a superlative performance here as Martin Furnival Jones, head of MI5 ... he has seen plans within plans, layers of reality deeper and darker than the surface illusions most of us live our lives in; gently but firmly disabusing the Queen of her superficial suspicions for an actuality more terrible than she could imagine. Qudos to Coleman too, for the look of horror and disgust on her face as she listens to his revelation ...
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Can ANYONE imagine actually having to be that man that told the real Queen Elizabeth that horrible news??🤯😵💫😵
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He was outed to the public by Margaret Thatcher round about 1979
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Fun fact 1: Olivia Colman and Samuel West, who portrays Blunt in this episode, played Queen Elizabeth's parents in "Hyde Park on Hudson" in 2012. Fun fact 2: This is Samuel West's second time portraying Anthony Blunt. He previously played Blunt in the 2003 miniseries "Cambridge Spies"
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During the interrogation of Blunt by Peter Wright - MI5, (Wright had regular interviews with Blunt from 1964 to 1970) Peter was advised that he would learn of a trip to Germany by Blunt. Blunt apparently recovered documents pertaining to the Royal Family. Peter was advised not to pursue this matter. I always assumed this related to Edward VIII. Blunt made copies of what was later revealed as "Royal Correspondence" and passed it directly to the KGB. I've followed this and the Sir Roger Hollis allegations (Sir Roger is well in the clear) since 1987, and little bits and pieces continue to fall out of archives.
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Keep it coming with The Crown videos....
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How the hell does an art surveyor get their hands on military documents?!
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Funny thing is they guy playing Blunt played the same role 20 years previously.
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Gosh Samuel sounds just like his father Timothy West
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If I'm not mistaken, the room in which Blunt is giving his lecture is the very same room used in the film, Red White and Royal Blue, as the 'balcony' room in Buckingham Palace during the last part of the film! It's the organ pipes that I recognise!!! God, I'm such an anorak!!! I'd love to know where in London this room is???
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So Angus and Sophie do know each other.
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This would make a great movie in and of itself!!!
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I doubt he spent all that time in the royal household without recruiting or introducing others into the palace. We seem to have just assumed he only passed secrets for some reason.
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Netflix's Crown wasn't the first to tackle this. 1991's A Question of Atribution with Prunella Scales as Queen put it to screen first. In fact Prunella became the first actress to ever portray a reigning monarch. It's rather good if anyone can find it.
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In centuries past, wouldn’t he have been executed?
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Anyone know the silver-fox actor’s name?
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The Apostles!
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Is the actor playing Blunt on All Creatures Great and Small?
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And he got away with it. If he was some pleb he would have died in jail.
