The Crown, which basically turned into a hit job on the royal family, tried to set up Lascelles as the villain, but he was the best character in the show (along with Anne).
I’d argue the hit job (which it was undoubtedly intended to be) failed as well. Most people have learned to apply a de-woking filter to current broadcast media. You need it in this country.
Great article. I have recently finished listening to the audio version of King’s Counsellor which as a nice touch is narrated by Pip Torrens. In his diaries, Tommy comes across a cultured, balanced and empathetic man and gives an interesting insight into the war years, government and monarchy. It’s a great piece of history.
William Perry
2 years ago
Interesting article. One niggle: the author writes, “He could talk of the King as a Deity with little exaggeration”, but in the subsequent quotation which is presumably the basis for this, Lascelles is clearly referring to God and not to the King.
Satyam Nagwekar
2 years ago
Not seen ‘The Crown’ yet but Lascelles sounds like a fascinating dude from this narrative.
Not sure about Margaret’s marriage. It didn’t seem to stop her later and she never seemed particularly happy.
We seem to want the family to be middle class when it is above such things hierarchically. A pity we cannot have the rambunctious army princes alongside the more sober emperors.
Julie Kemp
2 years ago
One of the right kind of British or English! I am pro Monarchy, especially the enlightened sort. It is the position itself, not the individual that matters more so. Thankfully i’m grateful for Queens Elizabeth (both of them) – each have been and are ‘great’ in different ways, but both i feel esteemed the highest principles of monarchy and sought and seek to engender high regard for one’s estate and state in this tragic world of forms. I think the state’s monarch is the exemplar for the personal or individual. Each are sovereign essentially. Another form of ‘as above, so below’. Balance.
The Crown, which basically turned into a hit job on the royal family, tried to set up Lascelles as the villain, but he was the best character in the show (along with Anne).
I’d argue the hit job (which it was undoubtedly intended to be) failed as well. Most people have learned to apply a de-woking filter to current broadcast media. You need it in this country.
Totally agree. #TeamTommy
Why not a picture of the man rather than an actor
Great article. I have recently finished listening to the audio version of King’s Counsellor which as a nice touch is narrated by Pip Torrens. In his diaries, Tommy comes across a cultured, balanced and empathetic man and gives an interesting insight into the war years, government and monarchy. It’s a great piece of history.
Interesting article. One niggle: the author writes, “He could talk of the King as a Deity with little exaggeration”, but in the subsequent quotation which is presumably the basis for this, Lascelles is clearly referring to God and not to the King.
Not seen ‘The Crown’ yet but Lascelles sounds like a fascinating dude from this narrative.
The last thing Lascelles could be described as was a “dude”.
‘Dude’ it is in my lexicon!
Not sure about Margaret’s marriage. It didn’t seem to stop her later and she never seemed particularly happy.
We seem to want the family to be middle class when it is above such things hierarchically. A pity we cannot have the rambunctious army princes alongside the more sober emperors.
One of the right kind of British or English! I am pro Monarchy, especially the enlightened sort. It is the position itself, not the individual that matters more so. Thankfully i’m grateful for Queens Elizabeth (both of them) – each have been and are ‘great’ in different ways, but both i feel esteemed the highest principles of monarchy and sought and seek to engender high regard for one’s estate and state in this tragic world of forms. I think the state’s monarch is the exemplar for the personal or individual. Each are sovereign essentially. Another form of ‘as above, so below’. Balance.