The Restoration of Villa Windsor | The Crown (Imelda Staunton, Salim Daw, Jude Akuwudike)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Mohamed Al-Fayed (Salim Daw) restored what he had previously named "Villa Windsor," making Queen Elizabeth (Imelda Staunton) uncomfortable.
From Season 5, Episode 3: Mou Mou
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Those Diaries of the Duke of Windsor would make interesting reading.
^_^
The musings of a sad ruined man, regretful of his choice of woman don't interest me.
Surely someone in the Royal fold should have claimed those items after the Duchesses death.
She hired a personal
secretary?/Lawyer?
who cut out everyone
else
Al Fayad was badly advised, or ignored good advice, when he chose to follow this path.
such a clown move to renovate the house of an abdicated king and even more to invite the royal family there. On top of that the risk of exposure of letters between King edward and prominent nazi's. Mr fayed was a pain in the ass for the royal family, how he ever hoped to be accepted by them after that is beyond me.
This was a fascinating episode.
It was so factually incorrect- the duchess died in 1986
I find it interesting how the Show never showed the scandals of prince Philipp which really went overboard.
I’m no fan of Edward VIII but I find the Queen mother to be so annoying in Seasons 3 onward. Loved how she was portrayed in the first 2 seasons.
The Queen Mother watched the lives of her husband and her children warped all out of shape by David Windsor's misbehavior. Every single grandmother I've ever met would hold a grudge against the man in that circumstance. And after you hate someone, for every justifiable reason, for so long that hatred takes on a life of it's own.
The show is also made by avowed anti-monarchists who would do absolutely anything to slag off the Royal Family. The Queen Mother was the most popular royal of her times for a very good reason. This show is full-time character assassination.
She was pretty snobby , petty and basically a party animal and a spend thrift , all of this was hidden from the public !! Having said that I’m not blaming her for having a grudge on account of what happened ,but she probably went far on account of how she was as a person!!
they made her this dull, doddery old senile lady. She wasn't like that. She still had some spark in her and she looked more physically robust
@carlhicksjr8401 idk, I find the character annoying for her hopelessly outdated snobby classism which, among other things, denied her own grandson a chance at a happy family life
How could Villa Windsor fall into such disrepair, did they hate the former king that much??
Second comment:
Now that I think of it, the Royals should have taken possession of Villa Windsor and then renamed it Exile House. It'd be where a Royal gets sent when they REALLY botch it.
cough cough Andrew
@@SuperCatman Yeah, he got 'mentioned' in my first post.
in other words a rooming house?
I didn't think it was big enough...
If they were alive and not monsters/reptiles
Why did Al-Fayed claim Philip was a Nazi, when the royal family tried to avoid any connections to Nazi's and discussed them with such disdain.
MohammadAal-Fayed laid a big egg with restoration of
the so-called "Villa Windsor" *Did he realize that by*
*glorifying the Duke of Windsor he was offending the*
*British Royal Family (who considered the DoW to be a* *traitor?)*
The Duke of Windsor's and Wallis' chummy
relationship with the Nazis was like kryptonite
to the British Royal Family!
Buying the place, *quietly, discretely returning the*
*family heirlooms (to the BRF)* and turning the place
into a showcase celebrating the WW2 hero Charles
de Gaulle (who lived there from 1944 --1946) then
selling it at a huge price; would have been a more
intelligent thing to do. The edifice was built in the
early 20th century; it was NOT a historic property.
No offense, but that's nonsense. Al-Fayed was well-intentioned and performed an act of sincere generosity to the family in order to win over their good graces. They knew it wasn't his goal to honor the DoW in any way. They knew he was trying to please the Queen and the family. The real mistake he made was trying to forge a friendship with this horrible family in the first place. He was a phenomenally successful man and he felt that he never got respect from the British establishment because of his ethnicity/religion. The family's response to his gestures was further proof of this. They're not uncomfortable because of the DoW connotations. They're uncomfortable with him being an Arab/Muslim.
@@hutch1197
Fact: *Outsiders should NEVER expect to*
*be friends with royalty!* As you said:
>" *The real mistake he made was trying*
*to forge a friendship* (with this horrible family
in the first place)"<
As I said, he laid an egg! He did not "read the
room" so to speak, It had nothing to do with
his race/ethnicity or religion.
*For a royal to be friends/best buddies with*
*a commoner is to invite accusations of*
*favoritism by everyone else who does not*
*feel favored*
Although sometimes a royal will be friends with someone whom he/has grown up with and who
has been to the same schools or who are war
heroes; (these people are often drafted into the
royal circle, at the management level, are called
courtiers) .... Yes they are employees; but some
are also friends.
Example Mike Parker with Prince Philip
(sort of an outsider himself)
*That is just the way it is with royals --*
*In every country, in every era -- They have to*
*maintain their distance from the people;*
especially those with money who believe that
their money allows them access.
You make it sound like these royals are some type of special people. They are not. This family of 4 children has had one confessed adulterer, three divorces, two remarriages, one inter family marriage, one pedophile. Yes I guess they are special people!
@@hutch1197RF has been friends with Arab Kings for centuries. They simply didn’t want to befriend with a corrupt and shady businessman. Al Fayed was a social climber and he was ready to sacrifice anyone including his son and Diana to accomplish his motive.
Wasn't the property leased?
Eddie the Eighth was, and there is no glossing over the facts on this one, a traitor. Al'Fayed currying favor with the Royal Family by celebrating an exiled duke was beyond crass and shouldn't have been entertained by anybody... the Press, HM's Government, the Royals themselves, nobody.
I mean, can someone explain how it could possibly be someone's honor to memorialize a man who didn't have any honor to begin with?
Perhaps but Edward was British. He was the king. He was part of the royal family history and he was a traitor to his country. The firm cannot sweep this one under the rug as well !!!
@@JDH3666 Well, they're doing their best to do so with Prince Andrew...
Eddie the Eighth was indeed part of British history, but he was a cautionary tale, a warning, and CERTAINLY not something to be memorialized or celebrated.
in a monarchial system, traitor is a dicey epithet to lob at a King. After all one can not be a traitor to oneself. After his abdication, when he became just another member of the Royal family it has more weight.
@@pwp8737 Well, it was after his abdication that he REALLY screwed the pooch. He was only a couple steps away from 'Lord Haw-Haw' levels of collaboration with the Nazis.
It really is no wonder why the Queen Mother [who certainly had her flaws] hated him so much. What I find so bizarre about the whole thing is how much Charles identified with and modeled himself after Uncle Davey. I do realize that the Royals live a life difficult for us plebes to understand, but Charles was fully informed on the Marburg Files and still he defended Eddie the Eighth.
@@pwp8737 A king is not the country he was just trusted as a steward . The people are the country by far. This king was a traitor to the people whilst he was a monarch
Imelda Staunton is a superb actress, but I found her to be too cold in her portrayal of Elizabeth II.
Elizabeth II was not exactly a warm snuggle bunny. She was a queen, and everybody knew that. In some ways she was remote and cold.
I agree, that really bothered me as well.
Katie and Cuthbert
If the items were so important why didn’t they buy the old building and get them?
They did in fact buy the contents that they were interested in when Al-Fayed auctioned if off.
It’s not a private property but owned by the French state and leased out. Fayed bought the contents I believe. So they then belonged to him.