![]() ![]() She tells the Queen as much, totally changing the tone of the confrontation just as Charles was planning to make his big speech about ending things. Charles no longer wants to waste his life being apart from Camilla, but for Diana, the idea of almost losing Charles entirely has cemented just how much she wants to be with him. It seems that Charles' near death experience with the avalanche has not brought them closer, but rather, driven them to completely opposite conclusions. Seeing the dire state of their relationship, The Queen decides it's time to intervene and confront Charles and Diana about the state of their marriage. Still, the royals seem to be focused on Diana's affairs, despite the fact that Charles was unfaithful first and showed no willingness to stop seeing Camilla long before Diana gave up and had affairs of her own. I once rooted for Princess Anne, but now she's just being cruel - though perhaps she's just projecting, since it would later be revealed that she was having an affair of her own. ![]() Anne blatantly slut shames Diana, referring to Diana's "revolving door" for men. Anne says between the age gap and their lack of understanding for each other, it's pretty much not a marriage at all and that they're both having relationships on the side. The Queen is somehow surprised to hear that Diana and Charles aren't getting along, so she asks Anne to tell her the truth about how it's going. As in real life, The Crown's Charles survives, and the accident buys him a few days before the press turn from covering his rescue mission to rumors of his rift with Princess Diana. This bit is real: during Charles' March 1988 ski trip in Switzerland, a deadly avalanche roared down Gotschnagrat Mountain, killing one member of his party. Then, a few months after his birthday, Charles almost dies. ![]() The Commonwealth members think they've won, but Thatcher makes a speech where she points out that "with one simple turn, a signal can soon point in an entirely different direction." They're all naturally flummoxed by her ironclad disinterest in banding together on this issue. Thatcher agrees to sign a document with the rest of the Commonwealth Heads about South Africa, but not if it says "sanctions" or "proposals." She also vetoes economic measures, actions, controls, protocols, and limits before agreeing to "signals," which is suggested by the Queen's press secretary. The Queen implores her to approve sanctions "on an Apartheid regime that has no place in the modern world." Thatcher is more concerned about monetary issues, stating that trade between their two countries brings in three billion pounds a year. At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Thatcher and the Queen discuss the situation in South Africa. The one who doesn't? The UK, courtesy of Margaret Thatcher, who was famously against sanctions. In much more meaningful news, Apartheid is in full swing in South Africa, and many nations in the Commonwealth want to impose economic sanctions to encourage its end. In real life, the Falklands War lasted just a handful of months in 1982, but 256 British lives would be lost in the conflict. Despite warnings from her fellow government leaders that the cost will be enormous, she decides to take the Falklands back anyway, and the episode ends with a naval ship on its way to war. When Argentinian officials hear about the incident, they threaten to send missiles to the island, and Margaret Thatcher, fresh off almost losing her son, decides she will not lose the Falklands either. This will eventually lead to the 1982 Falkland War, which was also started simply by metal workers raising a flag. Philip says she can't blame herself, their children are adults now and in charge of fixing their own lives.īut while British leadership is hung up on all this favorite child nonsense, a skirmish arises in the Falkland Islands, a British territory, when a group of scrap metal workers raise an Argentinian flag and declare the land to be theirs. "What does that say about us as parents?" she frets to Prince Phillip, remembering how often she let the nanny step in for her. After completing her research, the Queen is less sure that she has a favorite and more convinced that all of her children are lost. ![]()
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