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No acting, no artifice, just the real thing nothing is off-limits, even the corgi-filled barbecues!
Were being filmed watching television,Princess Margaretdeadpans.
People might watch us watching television on their own television sets at home.
This is really plumbing new depths of banality.
The reception was … brutal, both in the purview ofThe Crowns fictionalized realm and in real life.
Theres a picnic, some dinner-table talk, and even an ice-cream trip.
Perhaps the most scandalous thing is Princess Anne calling a lunch spread an absolute failure.
(This is due to Queen Elizabeth IImaintainingthe copyright of the film.)
It and we cant stress this enough isnt particularly compelling TV.