Wilson reminds her that tolerance for royal family hanging by a thread and he’s been controlling the republican feeling in cabinet until now but would be left with no choice but to side with them if this coup was to go any further. While not quite enjoying the steak and fries dinner she’s been served in Kentucky, Elizabeth gets a call from the PM to tell her he has reason to believe there’s a plot against him and the democratically-elected government brewing that’s being led by a senior member of her family. Later over dinner, she admits how having such a lovely time has actually made her very sad, as she’s getting to live the life she always wanted to a life that would’ve made her happier. She asks him to be the royal racing manager. She’s spending her days talking reproductive management and herd health and she and Porchey share a sandwich and come to the conclusion they need to change their whole approach to breeding. In her absence, she has deputized some of her responsibilities to her mother. to learn from horse breeders around the world. So she and Porchey decide to embark on a trip to France and the U.S.
Remember him from last season? Philip was always a little jealous of his and Elizabeth’s easy manner.), she’s realized her horses are just not up to scratch anymore. Having spent a day at Royal Ascot with her good old buddy Porchey (played by John Hollingworth this season. Luckily, Cecil King has some ideas and cozies up to Mountbatten at an event, asking him to have lunch at the Bank of England to hear a proposal he and his pals have been working on.Īll of this is allowed to run its course because the queen’s attentions are more closely focused on another type of course: the racecourse. Mountbatten is extremely perturbed by the news and at a complete loss as to what to do with his time here on out.
He’s been refusing to make cuts and they believe he belongs to another time so has got to go. They land on kicking Lord Mountbatten (Philip’s uncle, played by the imitable Charles Dance) out of his position as chief of defense. At Downing Street, the cabinet is concerned and decides the best response is to make some cuts and redirect attention elsewhere. He changes it to “Enough is Enough” which by today’s standards doesn’t seem so terrible but the Mirror is a Labor-supporting newspaper so for it to turn against a Labor PM is kind of a big deal. They go for a walk.ĭown at the Daily Mirror newspaper offices, we meet Cecil King, the chairman of Mirror group newspapers as he sweeps into the building to edit a headline that isn’t a scathing enough attack on the current Labor administration. He commends her courage for rising above the barbaric treatment and she tells him to find himself a faith it’s everything. She says she owes him an apology she couldn’t cope when they were forced to leave Greece. The headline reading “The Royal Saint” finally encourages Philip to go and see his mother, realizing it wasn’t her fault, perhaps, that she was often absent in his childhood. The article goes on to detail the electric shock therapy used on her to treat hysteria, X-raying of her womb to bring on menopause and other atrocities. John and Alice sit down and she candidly shares all the years of terrible treatment she received throughout her childhood when, after being born deaf, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and sent to an asylum. Luckily, Anne is a little savvier than her father and performs a switcheroo that puts her poor old grandmother Alice under the microscope/phone instead. Indeed, he’s so confident he even requests John Armstrong to conduct it. He thinks it’ll give them a positive endorsement. Of course, Prince Philip has another great idea to combat the negativity! Princess Anne will do an interview with the Manchester Guardian as the subject of an in-depth profile.