The Crown (TV Series)

Matrimonium (2017)

Claire Foy: Queen Elizabeth II

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• Tommy Lascelles : I hope Your Majesty understands the context in which this discreet reconnaissance work was done and that it in no way represents a prurient, moralistic or censorious position. Mr. Armstrong-Jones is perfectly entitled in his private life to make those choices he wishes, indeed, to live as he wishes.

  [Michael clears throat] 

  Tommy Lascelles : However, as with a great many artists, the, uh, conventional approach to life doesn't appear to fit. It seems that what makes his work notable is his willingness, his appetite, to break barriers and conventions, as he pushes his medium, photography, I believe, to its boundaries, and, um,

  [clears throat] 

  Tommy Lascelles : as in art, so, it would appear, in life.

  Queen Elizabeth II : I see.

  Tommy Lascelles : [sighs]  The narrow path, the straight, Christian path, is not to his taste. To the best of our knowledge...

  [unlocks briefcase] 

  Tommy Lascelles : ... he is currently conducting no fewer than three other intimate relationships.

  Queen Elizabeth II : What? With whom?

  Tommy Lascelles : With a Miss Jacqui Chan, an Oriental dancer and singer. With Gina Ward, an actress. And with a Miss Robin Banks, his former assistant.

  Michael Adeane : These, we should add...

  Tommy Lascelles : Are just the natural ones.

  Queen Elizabeth II : What?

  Tommy Lascelles : There is good reason to suspect that Mr. Armstrong-Jones has a taste for members of his own sex and that his close friendship with his proposed best man, Mr. Jeremy Fry, is...

  Queen Elizabeth II : Yes.

  Tommy Lascelles : ...in fact...

  Queen Elizabeth II : All right, Tommy.

  Michael Adeane : Not to mention his wife.

  Queen Elizabeth II : Please.

  Tommy Lascelles : Camilla. Formerly Grinling. An erstwhile girlfriend of Armstrong-Jones.

  Michael Adeane : Who is now expecting, herself.

  Queen Elizabeth II : Do you have a photograph of her?

  Tommy Lascelles : We do. Thank you, Michael.

  [exhales] 

  Tommy Lascelles : [Elizabeth gasps] 

• Princess Margaret : I will marry Tony if it is the last thing I do. At the Chelsea Registry Office, with a local drunk as witness, if need be. Because Tony makes sense of me, defines me. At long last, I know who I am and what I represent. And what is that? A woman in my own right. A woman for the modern age. And, above all, a woman who is free. Free to live, to love, and free to break away.

  Queen Elizabeth II : But you're not breaking away. Because you won't give up your title, your rank, your privileges, for one simple reason. You enjoy it all too much. The palaces, the privileges, the deference. It's always meant more to you than it did to me. Whereas all I wanted to do was... give it all up... disappear and become invisible.

  Princess Margaret : Well, in that case, your achievement's all the more remarkable. As you've managed to disappear and become invisible, while wearing the crown.

• Queen Elizabeth II : Margaret. Most of that time will be taken up with planning anyway. Margaret. Margaret. As indication of my support as Queen, I intend to throw a party. For the family. For your friends. To show our support. We never did that for Peter.

  Princess Margaret : You never did anything for Peter.