As news of a prequel to 'The Crown' breaks, revisit Vogue’s exclusive first look at season one from the August 2016 issue.
) and director Stephen Daldry offer us an unprecedented invitation to spy on royalty and watch, rapt by the very ordinariness of this extraordinary family. And for Morgan, that is the Windsors’ enduring appeal; at some level, we all face the equivalent of the Queen’s Tupperware-versus-orb-and-sceptre polarity. “The life we ideally want to lead and the compromises we have to make allows us all to connect with the predicament faced by Elizabeth Windsor and Elizabeth Regina,” he says.
So much of what we feel for the royal family is bound up with our admiration for the Queen and the way in which she has devoted her life to a role that she neither asked for, nor knew would be hers, until her uncle’s dramatic abdication when she was just 10 years old. On her 21st birthday she made a moving speech committing herself to her country, the Commonwealth and her subjects, “whether my life be short or long”.
Constancy has defined her, even when her children’s marriages collapsed, her favourite home was on fire, her mother and sister died within six weeks of each other, and even now, when she is 90 years old. Paying tribute on her 90th birthday, David Cameron said, “Her Majesty has been steadfast, a rock of strength for our nation, for our Commonwealth and, on so many occasions, for the whole world.
However, too much reality, while tempting, is also unsettling. As the distinguished constitutional historian Vernon Bogdanor explains, “We project ideal values on to the royal family that we would like to have ourselves. We need someone to look up to in a secular age.
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