A royal pain
This year, just be thankful you're not a royal.
While the rest of us are bingeing "The Crown," the royal family surely won't be putting the show's new season on their gratitude list.
That's mainly because viewers won't let Prince Charles and Camilla off the hook for their affair, which took place back when the Prince of Wales was married to the late Princess Diana.
The beleaguered couple has been flooded with such vitriol that their official Twitter account was forced to turn off comments on a post about a charity after being overwhelmed with hateful remarks.
One person blasted the Duchess of Cornwall, writing, “Money can buy you fancy clothes and jewelry, but not DIANA’s class or charm or magnetic presence. You can never replace her in a million years. She is our PRINCESS, now and forever!”
Sure this Thanksgiving is weird, but at least you won't have to deal with that at the dinner table tomorrow. But viewers aren't the only ones up in arms.
Sarah Horsley, the widow of Major Hugh Lindsay, is upset that her husband's death in an avalanche while on a 1988 ski trip with Prince Charles was dramatized for Season 4 of the series.
“I was horrified when I was told [the episode] was happening and was very concerned about the impact on my daughter,” she told Britain’s Sunday Telegraph. “I’m very upset by it and I’m dreading people seeing it.”
But even the Queen's grandson-in-law Mike Tindall, who is married to her eldest granddaughter, Zara Phillips, has admitted to watching the soapy retelling.
All that's to say, if palace intrigue is what'll keep you from arguing with your relatives on Turkey Day, there's more where that came from. Queue up "Diana: In Her Own Words," a documentary from 1991 that you can stream on Netflix between rounds of pie.
And if you thought Season 4 was dramatic, just wait until you hear what's in store for Season 5: three failed marriages — siblings Prince Andrew, Princess Anne and Prince Charles all got divorced — and Princess Diana's devastating 1997 death.
I expect I won't be throne for a loop. Consider me royally obsessed.
Drinking of you fondly,
Maggie |