The fourth episode of The Crown is a Princess Margaret tour de force, showing how the Queen’s sister adapted the style of royalty into a lifestyle.
’s latest season is utterly devoid of Diana. But it brings us an up close and personal look at another glamorous woman who could never get what she wanted and yet made dissatisfaction look so great: Princess Margaret., Princess Margaret has remained the steadfast heroine, maybe the only character who almost always earns our empathy and adoration. The foil to the Queen’s superhuman sense of decorum and duty, Margaret is all desire, all vice, all complaints.
This season, Lesley Manville takes over in the role for Helena Bonham Carter. Big shoes to fill, I suppose, but Manville also comes with excellently twisted, black comedy fashion credentials: she was the star of, in which a widowed housewife scrimps and saves to buy a Dior gown, and played the head of Reynolds Woodcock’s London atelier in. She grasps a cigarette holder with admirable aplomb, and drops a condescending bon mot with impeccable grace.
The episode is almost entirely dedicated to Margaret, tracking the return of her first love, Peter Townsend, who writes to her suggesting a reunion at an upcoming ball. The letter arrives in a grandiose style that is true to thecreator Peter Morgan’s preference for plodding plot over character development: we come to Margaret asleep, with a silk eye mask on, under a green damask duvet cover.
That would be the letter from Townsend, whom she eventually meets again with a sly grin while wearing a puff-sleeved hot pink dress.
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