The Crown: Scene where Queen burns prime minister for resignation / quitting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ส.ค. 2018
- "A confederacy of elected quitters". Prime minister grilled for his resignation. Three prime ministers in her reign of 10 years. From season 2, episode 10.
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The Prime Minister here is Harold McMillan who was severely wounded in the First World War and lay for 12 hours in a shell hole pretending to be dead when German soldiers were nearby. He passed the time reading Aeschylus in the original Greek. He was hospitalised for 2 years and always suffered from his injuries. Of the 30 students that were on his course at Oxford only McMillan and one other survived the war. So while he is portrayed as a quitter and with a soft nature he had been through hell.
thank you for that.
A lot of the PMs in those days were pretty damned good sorts. We've not seen their like for thirty years.
@@iggyzeta9755 Our leaders these days don't serve on the frontlines any more unfortunetly. Maybe if they did they would be less inclined to start them
Truth often doesn’t fit with woke
@@TheDaverobinson nothing woke about anything here, haha stfu. He was a labor PM! If anything it’s rightwing propaganda!
David Cameron runs away and hides, theresa May resigns after crying before the entire world. The queen is in her 90's now and still has to deal with a confederacy of elected quitters.
Edit: RIP Elizabeth R.
Fair point about Cameron. He did cut and run.
But for all Theresa May's faults, being a quitter wasn't one. She clung onto the role even as her authority as PM evaporated and humiliating circumstances. She only survived a vote of no confidence by saying she'd resign before an election. Her own party forced her resignation.
If anything, a fault was clinging to the position despite having become ineffectual. Perhaps out of concern of the human wrecking ball that is Boris.
I'm not British and if I was, I wouldn't vote for Theresa May or the Tories in general. But tenacity was one thing she didn't lack.
@@CeartGoLeor86 yh I agree, if you're living in the UK like I do, it can be hard to notice the personal qualities of those in parliament, people just want good governance and smooth running of the country, and these past 6/7 years have Been quite messy.
@@ahmedzahir2865 I'm Irish so I wish the UK hadn't voted for Brexit but it has to happen now. I just hope a sensible deal can be reached to minimise disruption to trade and that there's no hard border on between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
I follow UK politics but obviously I don't understand the ins and outs like actual British people. I do have friends living over there. I think people everywhere want good governance and things running smoothly. I'm sorry that things have been so messy and politics has been paralysed in the UK. So much of a government's job is about decent management regardless of policy differences. A lot of the needs and best interests of a country are the same regardless of who's in government. I do dislike anti-immigrant politics that seems have increased a lot in recent years though.
I don't want to be running down Britain. A lot of my favourite music books and TV shows (even TV 's invention) are British, not to mention all the contributions to science that came from the UK.
CeartGoLeor86 Theresa May should have gone for a Hard Brexit. The people that voted for Brexit wanted it now
You're uneducated for saying such things. I doubt the real Queen would have said that, and as a matter of fact it's both unfair and inaccurate. PMs are elected and they resign at some point. It is democracy. Churchill didn't want to leave. Neither did Cameron or May. They were forced out of office by their own parties/ health issues / electoral events/ you name it. And PMs do much more than queens. How dare she, how dare she imply she has any moral ground over Churchill or elected people that gave their life for the country. She had nothing but to drink tea during the war while Churchill faced all the responsibilities. Shame on people who take the liberty of this show to despise democratic leaders. They have so much more merit than kings.
“A confederacy of elected quitters.” What a great line!
yeeow!
I think I like the royal family in “The Crown” better than the real thing.
LOL! Sounds like someone has a “royal sceptre” stuck up their butt. 😹
@@ballermanc4378 do you know it? Hahaha. Dumbass. The queen is badass too
I loved that line.
"Too old, too sick or too weak." Guess which one you are, Harold.
MrAnthimos112 All of them😂
"Supermac" was a useless piece of shit. The Queen is absolutely correct.
It’s actually too ill.
@Bilal Khalid wasnt eden too weak for failing the suez canal?
Harold: Yes
Am I the only one who think she got the queens voice down? Like I thought it was almost same voice from the queens interviews
Claire had to work on the pronunciation of the word “one” (Not one has lasted the course). Claire naturally pronounces it as “wohn” whereas the Queen pronounces it as “wun”
They were trained to speak their accent
Yes very similar
Lucia Ambrogio accent doesn’t necessary means voice, the queen has a particular way of speaking that isolated her from the common rp dialects (and there are many) the pitch and vocal range is so eerily like the queen.m
Yesss
She earned that Emmy!
And the real Queen earned her crown!
Michael--Yes, she did.
@@JavierArveloCruzSantana--She inherited it. There are just as many people who could have done as well as she has who were NOT in the line of succession.And there are equally a number of people with as much right to the crown as she has. Her position is an accident of birth, nothing more.
@@onemercilessming1342 she stepped up to the job thats what counts
@@alenthomas9871--You can grovel before these nonentities with their delusions of grandeur if you wish. Some of us prefer to be a bit more realistic. Being "royal" and wearing a crown isn't a job. It's a means of enslaving people. People don't need kings (or queens), but kings (and queens) desperately need people to support them and pay for their belief that they are better than others. They aren't--as has been shown repeatedly, not just in our lifetimes, but for centuries.
Claire Foy was amazing as the Queen
@@ballermanc4378, why?
@@ballermanc4378 the amazing Claire Foy has an amazing career ahead of her
@@ballermanc4378 why not use the Amazing Clair Foy and AMAZING in a sentence together?
baller manc explain yourself or else your comment means nothing
Michal Kate C. Yas
"A confederacy of elected quitters." BOOM
@@ballermanc4378 How do you know what the Queen is like behind closed doors, with no cameras and out of public view? A meeting like this could've happened between her and McMillan.
baller manc You seem so “posh,” as if you take tea with Her Majesty weekly.
@@liukin95 the Queen would not have used quitters. The word wasn't known in 50s Britain
Steven Cassidy to quit? Cease? Desist? Stop? A group of stoppers. That’s what she might say.
baller manc There was nothing trashy about that statement.
Dude is literally in a hospital bed with an IV and she does him like that 😂😂😂
AND a catheter if you look closely beside the bed. He had prostate surgery.
You know she’s pregnant with her 4th child and this pregnancy was dangerous and difficult.
because he was pulling out all the stops to justify his desire to quit. Not because of his illness but because he couldn't handle the pressure anymore. Wanker.
@@Hummingbird-yu3kt He had a lot of pressure in his life from his wife carrying on a long-term affair with Lord Boothby to being wounded in both world wars. The best thing he ever did was dump the Empire and use the money saved on an oversized and obsolete military to rebuild the infrastructure of Britain.
She was not playing.🤣🤣🤣🤣
0:23 when you hear Queen Elizabeth saying "I've been Queen barely 10 years", you know "The Crown" has got eternity to cover.
Hahaha...
Long live Netflix!
Literally. She's immortal!
@@sarthakbikrampanta8342 😔🕊
@@sarthakbikrampanta8342 uh....about that.....
From the lilt in her voice “is that an order, Mr. McMillan?” you know shit is about to get real
You don't mess with Lizzy Windsor Mountbatten!
For real!! Like don't even play with me sir!! I am not the one.🤣🤣🤣😁😁😁
@@retroguy9494 Mountbatten-Windsor
@@RaymondHng As I recall, its only their children who have the surname "Mountbatten Windsor." I was making a little joke referring to the Queen's maiden name as "Windsor" and when she got married, using a hyphenated name like so many American feminists do including their maiden name with their married surname. I did not mean it to be technical. But if one WANTS to be, I don't think she uses "Mountbatten" at all, just their children.
@@retroguy9494 None of her children use a last name, and some of her grandchildren don't as well. When George of Cambridge's birth certificate was released, the spaces for "father's last name" and "mother's married name" were filled in with a hyphen.
1953 - 1964, 10 years, 4 Prime Ministers
1964 - 1990, 26 years, 4 Prime Ministers
Confederacy of elected quitters followed by confederacy of elected clingers on by their fingernails.
Alex Saunders indeed. Looking forward to seeing her (Olivia Coleman obvs) with Harold Wilson and Ted Heath. That will be interesting!!
@@bigslydoc definitely! I can't wait to see it when she gets to Maggie Thatcher, a Prime Minister with whom the queen had an... interesting relationship.
I am more interested to see how they portray things like the assassination of Louis Mountbatten.
@@nrkgalt wait what?
samuraipanda85mobile I suppose for a show like this mentioning history is a spoiler. However, in 1979 Louis Mountbatten, Philip’s uncle, was killed when the IRA placed and detonated a bomb on his boat.
I’m really going to miss this cast.
I felt the same way but they were filming in my village in South Wales UK not so long ago and the new cast were lovely and took time out for photos and chats I think now they will be good
Same here. At the same time, I think the new cast will be great as well.
@@AnnaJo2000 I'm really looking forward to Oliva Colman as the Queen, that's for sure!
Soooo what did we all think? 🤔
She can't say she's too ill or tired or over it. She asks the same of those who actively pursued public office. She right, of course.
Clair Foy was brilliant as Queen Elizabeth! I'm so sad that her tenure is over. But I adore that line! "A confederacy of elected quitters" classic!
And the ultimate death stare!
spoken like a real hypocrite. Her own uncle was a Nazi who quitted because he loved a Nazi-lover, her father died of lung cancer and her own husband cheated on her and she deprived her sister of a marriage. She comes from a family of quitters but belittles people who keep her country intact for quitting after getting a cancer diagnosis.
@@saeedvazirian Blimey you dug deep for that pile of bullshit and lies.
* So what if her uncle was a Nazi (he wasn't but whatever)? The Queen wasn't.
* He quit when she was 10 years old and you blame her?
* Dying of cancer after leading his country to victory in a World War is not in any way 'quitting'. His cancer was brought on by the stress of Kingship.
* You have no proof her husband cheated on her.
* Under the law of the time she could not allow Margaret to marry Townsend. Since when is abiding by the law 'quitting'.
One thing the Queen is not and that is a 'quitter'. As for the rest you linked dissociated and alleged events into a false argument. Well done.
But screenwriter got it wrong on the detail. There is no way Liz in 1960 would have used what was then a pure Americanism - "quitter". She'd have found another word.
@@kenoliver8913 Oooh that's interesting! What do you think she'd say instead?
It’s sad because she never wanted to be queen and it was thrown onto her at such a young age. And here are these older men who truly see her not as their equal but as someone to “teach” and they quit on her when she herself knows she cannot just quit.
Even her father didn't want to be king as well just because her uncle couldn't keep it in pants with twice divorced woman
Lady Lowman - to be fair, the young Queen welcomed the counsel of these elder statesmen in her early reign
She didn't have to take it, and there hasn't been a day in her entire reign that she couldn't have called it quits.
@@deezynar The thing is she was being groomed for the role of queen but her father was thrust into the role of king
She can abdicate. It is entirely up to her.
I loved how this scene showed her character development.
In the beginning of Season 1 with Churchill she was so unsure of herself and felt like she couldn't stand up to him. And then fastforward to this.
Churchill was a monster like Hitler
Even though it was at the expense of showing both the real Queen and Harold McMillan in a bad light?
@@Quizzingspeed naw not like Hitler
@@bpoleary1 I don't know much about Macmillan but I do know that my mother, who lived through his tenure and was until recently a lifelong Tory voter, always refers to him as a "bloody fool".
To be fair, Churchill was... Churchill.
That almost-snarl she gave him at the end was FANTASTIC!
@@ballermanc4378 You are really disturbed, to spam every comment with your negativity.
@@ballermanc4378 stfu moron
Such a retrained and dignified almost-snarl too! A literal (using that correctly here) Queen.
Yes, fantastic to belittle and mock a man with cancer, and whine as if pregnancy is a stress. lol.
@@therenegade916 an idiot.
I love how she says “Is that an order?” So cool and collected with a raging contempt stirring beneath
"Is that an order, Mr. McMillan," the Queen asked calmly, thinly veiling the raging contempt stirring behind her steely gaze. [If this were in a book...]
Ok?
The look on her face!! Best scene EVER!!!🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Christina Elling DITTO!!
I loved this scene! That pause before she near the beginning is awesome. It goes on forever until she speaks.
All three
Who else had to watch the video multiple times to embrace Claire Foyes illustrious talent
Yup. Defs me!
MJ Lourens
I’ve returned to this video THOUSANDS of times, it’s too good!!!
@@michaelc9810 I do it all the time. I want to watch everything again, but this time get some more great scenes like this to upload.
Omg thought it was just me. Was shook.
Yesss...this role made Claire Foy my favorite actress
When the queen said "Is that an order Mr. Macmillan?"... I know the conversation will gonna end bad for the prime minister. LOL
She still did what he "advised"... Buckingham Palace always does what 10 Downing Street "advises".
She can’t say No to the order, she can whine about it but she can’t do anything else.
Yet another man mansplaining something to a competent woman. No matter what your position there is always some man deciding to enlighten you whether you need, want, or even ask for their assistance.
Macmillan fought in WW1 and was wounded three times. Great bravery.
Yes I heard a story one time about how he spent an entire day in a shell crater while injured, very heroic man.
Yes, but poor Elizabeth had to live a life of unearned luxury and eat bonbons wearing a hat with 9,000 stolen precious gems in it. So tell me who lived the harder life.
Yeah, and forty years later he was too old, too sick, and too weak. A man’s got to know his limitations, and he didn’t.
@@mikewalker678 Um, 18 year old Elizabeth did her part as a mechanic. And her home was bombed by the axis. So she didn't do exactly nothing.
@@mikewalker678 Ain't stolen if you have a binding contract-treaty.
"Do you know? I've been Queen barely ten years. And in that time, I've had three Prime Ministers. All of them ambitious men. Clever men. Brilliant men. Not one has lasted the course"
_Margaret Thatcher is typing..._
A letter arrives at Buckingham Palace addressed to the Queen
To Her Britannic Majesty:
Regarding your statement and I am fairly certain it was "Not one has stayed the course" or words to that effect. I most respectfully respond to wit: "Challenge Accepted"
Your obedient servant,
M. Thatcher
She quit as well. Sobbing.
She might in fairness have added "old men". Churchill was 80, Macmillan nearly 70. Eden was 59, but he had health problems, and for all he might have been clever he had landed the UK in a disastrous foreign policy/military misadventure for which he was clearly directly responsible. Resignation was honourable to take responsibility in that situation.
@@DanBeech-ht7sw You lose the confidence of the House of Commons, as she did. you have to go. She didn't want to quit.
@@faramir The odd thing was she had a clear lead in the Tory Party leadership race.
The Exemple between the temporary political power and the eternal soft power
You realize how stupid you sound?
This burn is so hard now that she’s still going at 92. Like a 60-something year slow burn. Haha
Almost like she didn't have to really work at it to get so far, let alone get elected in the first place eh? A prime minister would by necessity have a drastically higher workload than the queen at any point in time, especially in the 10-15 years post war with the cost of rebuilding and maintaining what influence and infrastructure they already had.
Those boxes she gets are nothing more than the less important aspects of governance by design of the constitution, little more than glorified governmental PR given her due as head of state.
The way this scene plays out, you can see she has a very small degree of empathy beyond her immediate family, and I personally found her to be a less than sympathetic character overall in the series - whether this is due to the writers own views or historical records of the queen I don't know, but it certainly isn't endearing to the working layman.
@Raunak Chatterjee I also heard somewhere Macmillan treated the queen like a little girl and didn't take her seriously, so I'm sure there if that is true there was no love lost between them.
@Raunak Chatterjee "This archaic definition is the reason she still drags on, refusing to abdicate, even if that means panting on the Throne at the state opening."
This is something that I was thinking about. "Duty" means serving your country. If you are so past it that you cannot perform the requirements of your office, then "duty" requires you to step aside in place of someone younger. That is what the Pope and several European monarchs did.
As it is, apart from the fact that she cannot do all her royal functions, she is also putting her son in a very awkward position. Charles is already 72, and if she continues even five more years, he will be closer to 80 than 70. What kind of monarchy can he possibly have then?
People will start to question the whole monarchy once she is gone. Why do we need an old geezer on the throne? What can he do?
So, ironically, she may jeopardize the monarchy itself by doing her "duty."
2019: as Boris resigns
the queen: uno i have been queen for.... oh forget it, What's the use, send the next sodding person in
you'd prefer a dictatorship?
@@Loxias1989 No, but the op as well as most people of sane minds including the queen would prefer a government of stability with their leader lasting as long as her majesty deems fit
After the Election: Well, this comment didn't age really well. ( ﾟヮﾟ)
@@nimishanarayan7048 it’s better to resign sometimes than to be voted out
@@nimishanarayan7048 "their leader lasting as long as her majesty deems fit" so a dictatorship then
Hey man you asked for it. You got Anthony to resign then she ask you to stay due to her delicate pregnancy than you quit putting her more in stress
baller manc how’s that sexist doctors told the queen when she was pregnant not to do anything to do with engagements meetings or government a new pm was a whole lot of stress
@@ballermanc4378 ???? Are you stupid or just a troll????
Idiot.
bilal nabi so the country should function based on the queens health?
Did I state that the country should run of the queens health or did I say that the comment was the other woman made was not sexist please re read the comments and FYI the queen does not govern the country it was the PM Who decided to ruin the faith of the country
Bilal Khalid I did not talk about Anthony at all read the comments again mate
Scenes like this show us why the first two seasons of this series are and will be the best ones ever, full stop.
Season 4 is quite good the weakest is season 3
totally agree
Here after Liz Truss announces resignation after 45 days. Boy, the country is in shambles. "A confederacy of elected quitters" still remains. Whew.
So Qyburn wasn't killed by the Mountain, he was burned by the Queen.
Either way, he was being burned by a queen ...
he was qyburned
Oh good she needs to give PM May a prep talk like this.
Who says she hasn't? We would never know
@@erlendsvenssson8534
I guess you're right.we will have to wait on those history books to know for sure
Whatever else Theresa May is, she is not a quitter. Perhaps one day soon she'll be forced out, but it won't be without a fight, I think.
@@alexander9703 That is for sure.
Wait May isn't a good PM?
I don’t think I will ever get to work in the line “a confederacy of elected quitters” into my everyday conversation. That makes me sad.
The man was Prime Minster for 6years and one of the most effective and popular PMs we’ve ever had!
Love
Tom
The Emmy should have come running to her
Truly one of the very greatest moments in television history. Thank you, Claire. You will be missed. And of course, massive credit to Peter Morgan, as always.
Even though it was at the expense of showing both the real Queen and Harold McMillan in a bad light?
@@bpoleary1 Yes
They weren't perfect! They were human.
@@bpoleary1All people are imperfect. What you see as “a bad light” is simply a more nuanced take on an entire group of people (the monarchy AND politicians) who usually give off a facade of being perfect.
That's the kind of answer that burns you to your very core.....
This scene was just brilliant.
Alan Mundy do you have any idea what creative interpretations are...?
@Alan Mundy that's what historical dramas do. Make up some parts to make it more dramatic.
@Alan Mundy on a lot of points The Crown is accurate.
@Alan Mundy ok, sorry if I came off rude.
"A confederacy of elected quitters"
An unprecedented line for humanity to memorize
stupid line
@@Loxias1989 None of your damned business
As an American, I find her choice of the word "confederacy" very interesting.
@M Ell Well, I know its not just about us. Even though I think she was referring to a league formed for mutual support or common action, I still found her choice of words interesting given the the additional definitions of the word.
At least they were elected. Not for a person who was born into her job to criticize them
"You merely adopted power. I was raised in it."
Claire Foy can do so much without saying a word--just a penetrating look.
This had me dead. he’s over here attached to that bed 😂😂. She’s like “you better get your behind up and do what you’re supposed to do”
Rule #1. Do Not Piss Off The QUEEN!
If she is pissed I'd advise one thing: RUN FOR YOUR LIFE AND CONTINUED EXISTENCE IN THIS PLANE!!!!
Or what?
@@Xerxes2005 Private room in Tower of London, perched high in a cramped iron gibbet, maybe the golden oldie of drawn n quartered.... wide range of possibilities that would not be in your favor I'm sure.
@@billlewis1829 This was the 20th century, where UK is a constitutional monarchy, not the despotism of Tudor England. Even the Queen must obey the Rule of Law. Queen Lizzie couldn't do *anything* arbitrarly to anyone, let alone the elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Pissed off or not, she accepted his resignation and did what he wanted like a good girl, not the otherway around.
@@Xerxes2005 Currently the 21st century and sarcasm is still taken seriously... it's a television series... calm down.
The queen must be sick of resignations in this show.
Maybe she can do the job though
Charles III probably…“ You know, I’ve been King barely 10 months, and in that time I’ve had 3 Prime Ministers …”
Queen Lizzie: Shut up Praga Wagga
It is actually one. Liz truss was able to shake hands with Queen Elizabeth 2 before she went to heaven
Well it seems to be 2 what with Liz Truss barely holding on. When’s the next general election anyway. I have a feeling it will swing to the Labour party.
@@raphaelledesma9393 by law the next UK general election has to be held by mid January 2025. It can be called at any time beofre that by either:
a) Sunak (assuming he remains PM) asks The King for a devolution of parlaiment and for an election
b) The governemnt loses a vote of confidnece in the HoC and is forced to resign and an election is called
c) The King sacks the PM and government and calls an election (and yes, he CAN do this but there is more chance of the USA winning Eurovision than it happening)
@@madabbafan Hello. Is it really a law mandating a general election? Like is there an Act of Parliament that mandates how often a general election is done or is it a convention?
This is the scene that has officially won Claire Foy her Emmy. Her delivery in this one is really chilling as if, you're hearing the real Queen Elizabeth II say this in person in the past.
I'm pretty sure she submitted and won for the episode "Dear Mrs. Kennedy"
@@xavierbeurre8064 Indeed, she won for that episode!
'A confederacy of elected quitters' I love the sentence. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
How interesting that the two after Churchill were not able to measure up to him in deeds.
Diana Winston was too old (which is understandable), Eden was too ill with his gallbladder issues, and McMillan was too weak. But you’re right.
Churchill's accomplishments were from the first time when he was PM during WWII. He did little of note the second time from 1951 to 1955.
Churchill was a great man, no doubt, but he came to power at a critical point in both British and world history. The issues he faced were monumental compared to the issue faced by his successors. So, to some extent, the times make the man, as much as the man makes the times.
@@boredlawyer3382 I would argue that great times reveal great men. In truly critical times, lesser men often shy away and those with the skills & fortitude step forward to grasp the reins. Winston Churchill was the clearly the latter.
K S
The issue was that Winston was much admired during times of crisis, so he was good at uniting the nation during the war, but ineffective in times of peace.
When there no longer was a crisis, he was considered deeply out of touch and far too old fashioned. The guy had a boner for the empire and refused to let go of the old world, he was also considered an extreme racist even in his own time. He did some great things during the war but he was a crappy leader for your ordinary day to day business of government, and considered a bad person by his contemporaries. By the standards of today, he’s nothing short of a total monster
@@KS-xk2so But it is true - by the 1950s Churchill was just a shadow of his former self. He was clearly senile by then, and his government did nothing about the huge challenges the country faced at that time. Like a has-been boxer he stayed in the game too long.
And this is more relevant today than ever before. A lettuce outlasted a Prime Minister.
And then there was Margaret Thatcher who would have happily worked forever, no vacation no holidays, no weekends.
So glad that old bat is dead
@@danc8900 meh, she’s made her mark.
@@pamelahermano9298 one time during swimming lessons they asked me what my fav stroke is, and I replied "the one that took maggie thatcher"
Mrs. Thatcher seems like an awful person, in this show, anyway.
Always dividing the people around her, even her own family. Ungrateful, grasping, selfish, and dishonest.. Trying to boost herself up by expressing or implying hatred and contempt for some other person or group.
Freaking sociopath, she appeared to be, I thought.
@@bluecollarlit She only really ever cared about one thing, her work.
En esta escena comprendo porque a su edad no Abdica su reinado ni a la Corona. Ella llegara al final de sus dias como Reina y resistira y ella no se unira a la confederacion de primeros ministros electos y desertores del Deber !! Ella no. Ella es Fuerte y de una Sola Pieza. La Admiro por eso. Dios le de larga vida a la Monarca Inglesa y con Salud. God Save The Queen !! 👑💖
This could sum up to:
"Don't give me orders, I'm the QUEEN"
"A confederacy of elected quitters." Say no more. Brilliant performance by the Claire Foy.
Owned. This also reminds me of the scene in Elizabeth the Golden Age where she takes down the Spaniards and tells them to go back to their rat hole. This is power!
@@ballermanc4378 No Queen Elizabeth the first basically told the Spaniards to go suck it and burned their fleet to ashes.
@@ballermanc4378 Who ordered the attack to begin with? It was the Queen not Sir Walter Raleigh. While he was a pirate he helped defend England from the Spanish it was the Queen who ordered it, stood up to the Spanish and the French. It has nothing to do with sjw it's fact, obviously I know she didn't board the boats and did it herself. There is a reason why Elizabeth I and Victoria are considered to be England's greatest monarchs, but thanks for your attempt to make me feel stupid. I took a minor in European history, I was being simplistic in my previous comment sorry if you got confused.
@@joshuamarshall1718 she ordered them to attack. Well good job. Not like she made the plan herself. She had no experience in naval combat. Of course you engage the enemy on the sea and do as much damage as possible. So if the enemy lands he is weaker. It is a common sence.
@@ballermanc4378 You are ignorant pathethic little man...
@Mohammad Nachawati the Catholics were fined a penalty for not attend a Protestant service not put to death. However there were many Catholics who committed treason against the high crown and were ultimately put to death. The Catholics under Elizabeths reign was not persecuted like the Protestants under Queen Mary.
Add Liz Truss to the list.
Claire Foy is so brilliant, I feel like I'm watching some magical time travel show of the real queen back then.
Simply brilliant acting by Ms Foy. Bravo!
Thank you!
I knew it would be well-acted rubbish when I saw Churchill sharing a joke with the King, and both of them laughing. The truth, from John Colville, his personal secretary: " . . . Churchill’s private secretary came to him with a story men were guffawing over in the London clubs: “An empty taxi drew up outside Number Ten, Downing Street, and when the door opened, Attlee got out.”
Churchill did not smile. There was an “awful” pause before his reply. “Mr. Attlee,” he said, “is an honourable and gallant gentleman, and a faithful colleague who served his country well at the time of her greatest need. I should be obliged if you would make it clear whenever an occasion arises that I would never make such a remark about him, and that I strongly disapprove of anybody who does.”
It was Attlee's resistance to Halifax in 1940 that made Churchill Prime Minister, and Attlee was his loyal Deputy PM throughout the war years.
Hear hear. And Attlee also had the greatest respect for Churchill, for all their differences.
One of my favorite scenes in the whole series
I really doubt the queen would have acted like this.
I don't know, hey... I just have a bad day and react same :'D
Super Mac is actually considered by historians as one of the best pms since the beginning of the 20th century,he comes after Churchill Attlee and thatcher,and he was on for 7 years and with not good health!
He came about 16 years before Thatcher
Seems her boy has to deal with the same thing in his first year, too.
At least she had 3 prime ministers for 10 years while her son has had 3 in last 10 days
I got this in my recommendation after Boris Johnson announced his resignation... TH-cam is really weird
"...Is that an ordah, Mistah Macmillan...?" I love how she delivers that line 👑
OMG! Clair just killed it in that role. She can convey so much without even opening her mouth. You can convey so much more than keeping quiet or still than yellow and screaming.
My not too distant cousin, a Macmillan of Arran and 3rd of my great-great grandfather Daniel Macmillan. We’ve always been very proud of him in my family, and I believe he was truly a revolutionary and great PM. 🇬🇧🏴
He should have reminded her the operative word is "elected," not "quitters." At least they didn't owe their positions to an accident of birth.
So you think she is wrong to scold him? No politician should hold accountable for their bad job just because they are elected.
Interesting how an accident is better than elected.
Not really a good look for democracy there.
@@percyweasley9301 He was wounded in two world wars. he was old and had just recovered from a stroke, he couldn't even get out of bed to have a shit. What good was he? He knew he was too ill to do the job proper. He was doing the right thing by his country just as much as he was doing it for himself. As a Prime Minister, he was pretty good. Did a lot for the lower classes.
@@wufongtanwufong5579 Yeah. I felt bad for him here. The Queen had been stressed for just 10 years while He had been suffering for at least 30. He deserved to rest.
Thing is Harold Macmillan wasn’t a bad PM.
Only in comparison with the two before him. Churchill's second spell as PM and Eden's tenure are both generally considered disastrous.
How long does she expect him to go on? He was PM for 7 years of her first 10.
but still, even today, it's rare for a PM do leave office after an election defeat. Here in Canada since 1993, we've had four PM's including our current PM who is clinging on to power for dear life after five years of scandals, and three opposition parties desperate to defeat the government after a September Throne Speech.
Am I alone in thinking the real Queen would have said something like that?
In reality, who knows how the Queen speaks to her ministers in private?
@@retroguy9494 something tells me that there are things that one is better off not knowing. I doubt we'd want to know. I for one sure don't.
@@chrismc410 I tend to agree with you. As the old saying goes, if you really want to know how the sausage is made, you better have a strong enough stomach to enter the kitchen!
I think we all know why we're here.
What a repulsive line. Queen Elizabeth had class. She would never say that.
It really is a terrible scene. Queen Elizabeth in this show simultaneously whined that Churchill refused to leave despite being sick and that Macmillan was leaving because he's sick. In reality Macmillan wasn't a bad PM and served a relatively long term.
Even if for some reason she thought that the Queen would not give a distinguished WW1 veteran and friend trouble over prioritizing his health. As a matter of fact, when he told her what happened, she urged him to take care of himself first and was in tears because it was suspected that he had terminal cancer.
I would legitimately feel like shit if the Queen had said the same thing to me. "A confederacy of elected quitters" OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Her accent makes everything sound so sharp
This man's life was devastated by the first world war and of course by the biggest betrayal, from his own wife. Who would have a relationship outside of her marriage and he was always advised not to divorce her by lawyers, as this would have been a career suicide and the opposition would always hold it against him.
clair foy... An amazing Actor,Queen and person!!!!
Perfeita atuação dela. I've seen that over and over again 👏🏻👏🏻
I love Claire Foy and this outstanding performance... I always loved the way she trasnforms from a little girl, insecure, a bit shy and willingly to be the wife of Philip to this strong, powerful and secure woman we have in the middle of S2... And this last episodes... My god... Long live to the queen Foy!!!!
And now Boris has quit too! His successor will be her 15th prime minister.
and her last apparently
@@jacobmatthews7524 she saw who it was after Boris and decided 'sod this, I'm off. Charles you can deal with this one and they are fitting the revolving door in No. 10 next week'
Clair Foy was AMAZING as Queen Elizabeth. She had to become queen - put herself in front of the family, be the focal point whether she wanted to or not. It takes a strong woman to be able to do that and retain her sanity.
Yet when PM Thatcher who doesn't quit comes along, they don't get along. Irony.
She did quit though
*Historian here. The reason he quit was because he was caught calling somebody a “monkey” on Twitter.*
No he called them a homo and hit send before including sapien.
Her sublime expression with the eyes lead into, 'is that an order, Mr. McMillan?'
Brief, but utterly brilliant monologue delivery.
......Foy's performance in this scene is worth an Emmy and a BAFTA ~
Truly amazing writing. And glorious acting.
This scene aged well.
OMG I JUST REALIZED THAT IT QYBURN!!!
And now Liz Truss has quit. She was elected just before the Queen died and then resigned just after Prince Charles became King Charles III.
Deja vu for Charlie
Claire foy gets these accents spot on it’s amazing
The sound of her majesty's steps brought weight to her claim 😌
can't get over how much i love this scene. top notch from claire foy
and u are all three of them ! she didnt even need to say it. bravo
You know something bad has happened when you hear the loud high heels
the queen lecturing a man who was in pain his entire life from ww1 war wounds about quitting
It's crazy how beautiful Claire Foy is, especially in this role. And her accent...She is amazing.
Elected quitters this line is more relevent now
I like how the PM just stayed silent. Like damn, how am I supposed to respond to that? lol
She would never in a million years have said this, but it sure makes good tv!
She would never have used such a vulgar Americanism as "quitter" for a start!
The way she emphasised 'men' though, like she is saying "I am a woman and I am still better at the job than your lot in your male dominated world"
I love how this scene is a complete fabrication in whole cloth... But this will be remembered as historically accurate by countless.
"I beg your pardon, Majesty, but the last time I served a queen, I did so without complaint or objection, and, for my trouble, I was picked and hurled about like a rag doll by a 7 foot zombie. On balance, I've learned the value of a good and timely quitting."
They did MacMillan absolutely dirty here. And I’m sure the real Queen, with more dignity in her pinky than the entire planet, would never disrespect a war veteran and public servant like this