“it’s a rare thing that fate should allow a former King & a King in waiting to meet…” wow, just wow

The soundtrack makes the whole scene even more epic. Sad they didn’t use in the following seasons

The irony of Charles thinking David should have remained King because of their similarities when that would have very possibly prevented him from ever being one himself.

@LtRee96se

5 ай бұрын

But it wouldn't have prevented Charles from becoming King. He would still have have to wait for his mother to die. Elizabeth would have inherited first as she did from her father.

@AlexanderYamada

5 ай бұрын

Possibly. Had David remained King, the pressure to have a child and heir of his own would have been enormous. It's very likely the crown would never have gone to his brother, then to Elizabeth, and eventually on down to Charles.

@DECODEDVFX

25 күн бұрын

@@AlexanderYamada Wallis was 40 when they married. Monthly fertility for a woman of that age is just 5%.

1:22To be fair, in the end, he was not denied what Edward was denied

@WestLegend03

4 ай бұрын

But he had to wait a long time to get it. And I doubt he'll enjoy it for long.

@jamesBFC1887

4 ай бұрын

@@WestLegend03 yeah but he got to wear the crown alongside the woman he wanted by his side, which was what Edward was denied.

@lordalessan

2 ай бұрын

He fought so hard and so many got hurt in the process.

At his death, Edward was not King Edward VIII, he was the Duke of Windsor. He lost the title of king when he abdicated. Being a royal prince from birth, he remained a royal prince after he abdicated. This meant he was titled His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor.

While in college in early 1941 (U of Miami Florida), my mother was working alone in the Dean of Women's office when in walked the Duke of Windsor accompanied by an RAF lieutenant. He was there to give an address to the many RAF students and was making the rounds to fill the lecture hall. She said they had a pleasant chat. Too bad selfies weren't a thing back then!

Keep going with the crown videos.

I’m sorry, but it was a good thing Edward was never crowned

@rowanaforrest9792

5 ай бұрын

I thought Edward did reign briefly, but thank heavens he was pressured into abdicating before WWII broke out, since in reality he was a traitor who aided the Nazis.

@snuggles03

5 ай бұрын

@@rowanaforrest9792 he did reign as king for a short time, but he never had a coronation, and it only came out years later, that he was a traitor to his country

@ds1868

5 ай бұрын

​​@@rowanaforrest9792he did reign as King and Emperor from January to December 1936. You do not need to be crowned to be King. Please learn the basic facts.

@ChristoAbrie

2 ай бұрын

according to the laws of succession of the British monarchy, there are only two ways a new monarch inherits his/her new title, nl, upon the death of the reigning monarch; and being named the successor upon the abdication of the reigning monarch. The coronation ceremony is just a formality to introduce the new monarch to the public, plus having a celebration (like a coronation) upon the death of an important figure is considered inappropriate.

@RadicalJack1

Ай бұрын

@@ds1868no one should give a single fuck about these inbred morons laws of sucession but you go nuts little dude

This scene was powerful ❤

Edward VIII was the worst king and would have brought down the monarchy by his selfishness alone.

Yeah he sympathized with him he thought their predicament are the same totally different because his uncle did not live with another woman while he’s married to his wife

@spearshake4771

5 ай бұрын

Remember this was written when Camilla was still unmarried and Charles as well. If Charles had become King at this time he probably would have faced the same predicament as his great uncle. Still its also not the same because at this point in the series at least Camilla was still unmarried and the only blemish she had was that she had a colorful past.

@alexandradane3672

2 ай бұрын

Try grammar , syntax and punctuation ?

@honinakecheta601

Ай бұрын

He shouldn’t have married Diana, he was nothing like him in that regard. Unwilling to live in exile he chose to marry another woman he did not love

@icewinddale2675

Ай бұрын

Moron doesn't realise thematic parallels.

This is completely false. Wallis wasn't with him when he died. He died in Paris with his nurse by his side and Wallis treated him like dirt through the latter half of his marriage to her. She acted like she detested him and flaunted her other relationships with her lovers in his face and in public. She was a completely horrid woman who despised him in the end although he truly loved her- in his broken twisted co-dependent way. Also we now know that this Duke of Windsor fed classified information to the Nazi's and tipped them off on important matters like when a place crashed with senior Nazi military officials in it and the plans for the invasion of France was in there. Edward let the Nazi's know so they they could change the plans and take Paris and all of France. Also Edward encouraged the Nazi's to keep bombing the crap out of Britain because British resolve was weakening and they would soon surrender. Edward was a traitor to his country and got much better than he deserved. Wallace was ultimate his greatest punishment and I'd say, yeah, that was a good punishment. Charles can be such an idiot. But we all know that.

@jla3bc

6 ай бұрын

But we know this entire scene was fiction - Charles’ letter to his uncle, Wallis’ being with Edward VIII at this death, etc. - so your point really isn’t valid. You’re basing your opinion of Charles on a fiction. Charles and Camilla have done a good job thus far.

@hunter11976

6 ай бұрын

it's a drama show, not a documentary

@matthewgales3057

5 ай бұрын

Sheesh Lesley, rather all-knowing and opinionated in hindsight, eh? I’m sure you need forgiving just as much as the next man, including the Duke of Windsor, King Charles III, and any other mortal soul who has walked this Earth. We are all frail, faulted and misunderstood mortal beings standing on trial in the gallows of hindsight, standing on the judgement of others who feel they would play this game of life a heck of a lot better than you; perhaps your day hasn’t come, but soon we will ask for the same forgiveness we refused to give others. Perhaps stepping off the moral high horse and join the rest of the human race?

@lizd2943

5 ай бұрын

The show touched on all of Edward's Nazi dealings in a previous episode.

@michaelmontagu3979

5 ай бұрын

​@@hunter11976Not everyone realises that. I've seen people referring to it to justify opinions. They may as well have based it on Lord of the Rings.

In the series finale, with Charles and camilla's marriage, that historical wrong is righted.

If I learned one thing from The Crown, it's that everyone is miserable most of the time.

The fool and the witch.

Apparently charles didn't think much of the doctors of windsor

As fantastic an actor as Derek Jacobi is, they could have cast someone of a similar height as Alex Jennings.

@aec9174

6 ай бұрын

For what it's worth, the real Edward VIII was only about 5'7". Derek Jacobi is 5'10", so they actually did cast someone closer to Alex Jennings' height.

@cuitlamcuautencos8306

5 ай бұрын

Both Alex Jennings and Derek Jacobi are taller than Edward VIII. In fact Alex Jennings is a lot taller. Alex is 6’2 while the Duke of Windsor was only 5’7. That’s a good 5-6 inches taller. And Derek is said to be 5’10, he looks a lot shorter here, but then again he’s a older man now he may have shrunk to 5’7 which means he’d be closer to the real David’s height.

@nilssonakerlund2852

5 ай бұрын

@@cuitlamcuautencos8306 Derek Jacobi seems much shorter than 5'10", especially in I, Claudius, but he was probably slumping over intentionally for that role.

Why is the soundtrack so loud?

Difference is Edward wasn't having an affair. Would He have made a good king? We'll never know. Charles sadly misinterpreted Edward's circumstances as his own. And now Charles is making a mockery of the crown: being demanding of his staff and looking down on others.

@wardarcade7452

5 ай бұрын

Yes, while Prince of Wales and Edward VIII, the future Duke of Windsor WAS having an affair with the still-married Wallis Warfield Simpson for some years and even tried to use his position as king to push through the legal divorce from her 2nd husband Ernest Simpson. Of course, it needs to be said that Mr. Simpson did nothing to resist the divorce and soon after it was final would marry his 3rd wife [Wallis's onetime bestie].

@justonecornetto80

5 ай бұрын

Would he have made a good king? Absolutely not! Tommy Lascelles resigned as his private secretary in 1929 because Edward spent a tour of Africa sleeping with the wives of public officials. Lascelles also let it be known to the Canadian Prime Minister that he regarded Edward as unfit to be king. Strong words from somebody who served as the Royal family's faithful guard dog for nearly 20 years. IMO, Edward should have been hanged after WW2. He did after all encourage the Nazis to bomb his own people and leaked the plans for the defence of France to them. The man was a traitor and an utter disgrace. As for Charles's affair, perhaps that wouldn't of happened if Diana hadn't started screwing her bodyguard first who as it happens was a married man. A detail which for some reason the makers of the Crown deliberately ignored.

@Jamietheroadrunner

28 күн бұрын

He would have made for a treasonous king because he was a fascist sympathizer.

Thank you for not being crowned

King George sixth waa by far a better King than than his brother.

Wait who is that?

He. Got. His. Way. Charles. She. Is. Queen

And really? A Nazi king? During WW2?! Sure Helga.

How do you know that this happened the way you said. You don’t so don’t speculate about what happened. She might have cared for him deeply how would we know.

@michaelmontagu3979

5 ай бұрын

It's quite well documented that she was indifferent to him and had a number of affairs. She had an affair with Jimmy Donahue, the bisexual heir to the Woolworth fortune. When someone asked him what it was like he replied, 'Like sleeping with a very old sailor.' His nurse noted that in his last three weeks of life she barely visited him and appeared contemptuous of him. Even in the thirties, when she and Edward were having their affair, she was sleeping with a used car salesman called Guy Trundle and the German ambassador to whom she was passing information that she saw when he was going through the work in his red boxes. That was the reason why he was secretly denied access to anything sensitive.

I love Jacobi, but he was wrong for this role

His crime was to oppose a war in which 65-million died when Britain was not threatened - but Soviet Russia was.

the sad state of kings...they can't even marry whom they want. what is purpose of such a role ? Till date no one seems to have forgiven him for doing the unforgivable thing to Diana. Between the two of them Edward seems more correct as compared to what Charles did.

Ohhh nooo Alexandra no englishi no syntax no punctuations yet for sure you understood 😢

Bs

It foesnt matter if you are paoper pr king,you play gor whst you played Eallis Dimpson lay 8 years alone ,in an apartment with no bisitirs and vould not speak or move. Edward died much the same. To support Fascist doctrine is betrsyal. If Charles admired this in his great uncle, foes he still? Frieghtning.

This is why queen Elizabeth should have skipped his @$$ and given it to William.

That Camilla is now Queen instead of Queen Consort is upsetting.

@kamion53

5 ай бұрын

she is a Queen Consort, not a Queen Regnant.

@sazzieb1

5 ай бұрын

All Queen Consorts are referred to as HM The Queen🤦‍♀️

@mrsbluesky8415

2 ай бұрын

🙄

@Emma88178

24 күн бұрын

?? What? She IS queen consort. What are you talking about?

What s load of shite!!!!!¡ they are all loaded,they never thought of the people,they were over the BBC, and still are,their grief is no different to any one,the Music is amazing,save it for people who ate worthy!!!!