The woman was a literal workhorse herself! Another giant eye roll of her not knowing/caring about possessions at the mansion until he mentioned grandma’s pearls. We are supposed to believe that a woman who has spent decades traveling to places she probably wouldn’t have chosen and talking to thousands of people because it’s her job suddenly decides to flake out at an event showcasing something she really really loves to hang with her sister and BFF, knowing that a giant part of what makes horse events happen are donors with deep pockets. When she is shown she does not resemble either public knowledge of the Queen, or the character that’s been established over the past four seasons. Three episodes in and the Queen is a background bit player in these past two. Yes, besides a few scenes of much younger carefree Diana last season it’s the first that showed that she did have this natural ability with people, a change from the doe eyes and heavy drama (which there was but she was popular for a reason). It captured something people always said about Diana - whatever her private demons, she was always able to disarm strangers with her charm and charisma almost immediately. I also liked the scene between Mohamed and Diana. The meeting between Diana and Al Fayid was pretty good, they had a good rapport. If it's standard to sit beside the race sponsor, then she should have sat beside him at least once. It was awful that the Queen went out of her way to avoid meeting Al Fayid. I'm surprised that it took the Royal family so long to recover the items and documents from the Duke's old house. I hated that Sydney was wistful about the Duke and then was ok with being the valet to a wannabe Duke. I wasn't sure what to feel about the fact that Al Fayid treated him as a friend and then cried over his deathbed. He then only had value to Al Fayid because he was the Duke's valet. It was bad enough that the Duke was talking about him like he couldn't hear, but he was dismissed from the party because he was black. I just felt sorry for Sydney the entire episode. Were they just basically running on credit, or were the hotelier's being racist? See /privacy for more information.When the Al Fayids were trying to finance the Ritz, I wasn't sure if the hotelier's point was valid or not. After a long wait, all episodes of The Crown Season 5 are finally here! David Chen and are planning to cover The Crown in three installments:Episodes 1-3 (this episode)Episodes 4-6Episodes 7-10This is our first time covering a binge-release show on Netflix so if you have any thoughts on this approach, feel free to email us at It won’t change our plans for this season but could for future seasons.Today, we discuss The Crown Season 5 episodes 1-3, “Queen Victoria Syndrome,” “The System,” and “Mou Mou.” How does this season continue the Diana/Charles storyline? How does the new cast work for us so far? Did the writing of Andrew Morton’s book really go down like it does in the show? How exciting is carriage racing as a sport? Are the metaphors more clunky this season or is it just our imagination? All this and more on this week’s episode of Decoding TV! subscribers: To add the premium feed of Decoding TV to your podcast app, go to /listen and follow the instructions.Links:Follow on TwitterSubscribe to David Chen’s new newsletter, Decoding Everything Hosted on Acast. This episode of the podcast is brought to you by McDonald's, proudly serving communities since 1965.
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