Given that context, I agree with you that the show is trying not to piss off the royal family any more than it already has. If anyone could have delivered a memorable sex scene-or even a kissing scene-surely it would have been Helena Bonham Carter? The lack of sex feels very intentional-do you think it’s about deference to the real-life royals and their privacy, even though the show takes plenty of liberties otherwise?ĮS: Our extremely royal-savvy colleague Elise Taylor reminded me that there was a Princess Margaret/Antony Armstrong Jones sex scene in Season 2 that got cut, allegedly because the show’s producers decided that people don’t–in star Vanessa Kirby’s words-“want to see royal boob.” Not to out myself as a total creep, but.cannot relate! To be fair, I have been in love with Helena Bonham Carter for 22 of the 27 years I’ve been on this planet, so I’m not an objective sampling of the population, but it seems pretty natural that a woman as convivial and (relatively) liberated as Bonham Carter’s Margaret would engage in sexual activity from time to time. There’s this really fun scene where they clink drinks and dance to Bowie…but there is no touching beyond a chaste couch-snuggle. You mentioned Princess Margaret earlier, who has an affair with Derek “Dazzle” Jennings. Ideal moment to retreat to the Queen’s grand bedchambers, or maybe Philip’s? How, in fact, do these upper-crust couples who sleep apart engage in the act? I guess we’ll never know.
It was very endearing when Phil told the Queen he felt terrible that he wasn’t sleeping beside her when Fagan broke in. I very much noticed that moment and hoped for a little sovereign sex, only to be denied again.
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