Sometimes It's The One's You Least Suspect | The Crown (Claire Foy, Jeremy Northam)

The Mic Drop of the series.

I loved how Tommy pronounces "courtier!"

Sharing a bed.....forgive me Maam!

He really should have been tried for treason.

I can’t believe he was allowed to live out his year in Paris instead of behind bars.

The fact he sold out France and caused their defeat...that shocked me the most.

1:38 Willis Simpson looks like Eva Brown.

I absolutely love the Tommy Lascelles performance in the Crown. He was so nuanced and supremely controlled, it’s forensic to watch!
If you look at how the actor placed his arms every time he is standing, you will see the expertise of his acting - faultless

Does anyone know how accurate this is?

If British justice had been allowed to run its natural course, the Duke of Windsor would have ended his life on the gallows in the company of Lord Haw-Haw.

The UK seems to have an almost perpetual and unending fountain of dramatic theater and/or film excellence. As an American who (not proudly) admits ignorance as to how and why this is the case (especially now in these days of streaming and independent productions) ... I've almost stopped being gobsmacked by the talents and performances of UK actors and actresses whose names and faces I do not recognize.
In this particular case, I have to salute the incredible acting talents and skills demonstrated by both Pip Torrens and Claire Foy. Is this is a backhanded slap at their American contemporaries? "Perhaps".

Great scene, on the part of both actors. His even-toned, yet menacing delivery combined with her wordless horror in reaction is masterful. This should be required viewing in every acting class.

That's the woman he left his throne,family and people for, a weak man is always dangerous to the system.. And the woman was sleeping around. Foolish man.

Edward VIII was bitter at his family and that was why he cozied up to Hitler. No one liked him. It was a way of getting back at everyone. Though he wasn't a true Nazi sympathizer.

There were plenty of real Nazis in the British royal family. Prince Phillip's sisters come to mind. Plus there are numerous cousins all of whom descended from Queen Victoria.

What is also sad is that QEII was a WWII veteran. Hard to look past betrayal.

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Great scene, but it's not Jeremy Northam as said in the title, it is Pip Torrens.

And then Edward had the nerve to repeatedly insult his brother before George's body was even cold, whining to his mother about losing his allowance while the rest of the family was in mourning.

Thank God for Wallis Simpson. England would be speaking German if Edward had stayed king and the Jews in all conquered nations would be dead

That guy really was a big bloody tattletale wasn’t he!

If they had proof he should have been arrested.

why would he abdicate if he intended a coup?

I know the Crown is fiction. Many fabs forget, it is supposed conversations. But i wonder not if thisxwas true, but was it how she found out.

when I was a younger child the story I would hear is that he was poorly maligned and forced to give up everything for the women he loved and this was the uk being classist


I'm so glad as I have got older this and the kings speech have restored his reputation in thoroughly placing him as weak stupid and in many ways evil person.

Never was silence more eloquent.

0:46 Single yellows in 1952?

Look at his right hand before he talks of the plan being hatched. He stretches his fingers out like he's containing rage and stopping himself from balling his hand into a fist.
Such a subtle thing but it really is excellent acting.

Im a working class socialist and republican, and have little time for staunch monarchists such as Sir Alan “Tommy” Lascelles, but this is a great performance by Pip Torrens. You can feel how much he despises Edward VIII

How he was not executed for treason , is beyond belief

Something tells me this scene wasn’t necessarily acting. Rather the Actors being British themselves were genuinely showing real emotion at the thought of King Edwards betrayal

Could you imagine? Egads, the level of arrogance is astounding.

Both of them are giving a masterclass in acting here.

Plus Claire Foy looks so cute at 2:34

A man so aristocratically British he has a Norman surname

1:28 The way the SS maneuvers him into the salute...
Give the devils their due.

Queen Elizabeth certainly had some DOOZIES thrown at her during her reign. RIP Your Majesty, sadly missed.🙏🙏🙏

It's a great series, but we should always remember that historical dramas are for entertainment - historical accuracy is not a priority

After watching this scene.
The treacherous nature of the Duke of Windsor.
I have to wonder about the Murder of Sir Harry Oakes in the Bahamas.
The Duke of Windsor was the Governor General at the time.
The evidence was manufactured.
To this Day, it's a taboo subject at Lyford Cay and IN the Bahamas.
It is documented that he was involved with a well known Nazi Industrialist. Having a Mansion on present day: Paradise Island.
As Churchill was a friend and confident of Duke of Windsor.
Was there a cover up at the very Top of the British Government????
To prevent any speculation of this Treacherous Duke????
Allegedly

Nothing is worse than a traitor.

His moustache could have been less fake
Otherwise, I wish he was in every episode..... Other comments said more than I would've.

The argument that the Duke was a Nazi traitor does not hold water, to me. Edward, like many others of his day, was willing to try and find a way to avoid war with Hitler to spare Britain another slaughterhouse that was WW 1. So what if he and Wallis visited Hitler, so did former US Presidents visit Hitler. Does that make them traitors as well? All sorts of people visited Hitler. The idea that the Nazis would help Edward regain the throne sounds ridiculous. If Edward didn't want to give up the throne, then he had every power not to abdicate. He didn't have to start another world war to regain it, he already had the throne. So some German plane crashes in Belgium with high ranking officers and top secret papers about the invasion of France. Who then relayed this plane crash information to Edward besides British intelligence, who already considered Edward a security risk, then why was the information given to him. Name the person or persons in British intelligence who delivered the plane crash French invasion info to Edward. The Germans aren't stupid. If they knew their plane carrying top secret info had crashed behind enemy lines, then they knew the possibility of the info being obtained by the Allies, and then the Germans would have naturally changed the invasion plans anyway. For the sake of argument, let's say Edward was a Nazi spy. What idiot in British intelligence gave him the info that the German invasion plans of France had been discovered. Then exactly how did Edward relay this info to the Germans. By a telephone call? By telegram? By visiting Nazi spies in France? Can these people accusing Edward of communicating with the Nazis be specific in exactly how info was given to Edward, and then how did Edward convey the info to the Nazis? I too have read the Marburg Files and I find them wholly suspect. More than likely German propaganda, or perhaps even fabricated by British intelligence, or others in British government bent of destroying the monarchy as a whole. I'm also sick of hearing both Queen's Elizabeth complain about their missed lives due to the abdication. Edward and Wallis were never going to have children, so the throne would have come to Elizabeth II anyway. The stress of becoming King is not what caused the early death of George the 6th. It was sucking down a carton or two of cigarettes a day that took him out. Elizabeth II didn't learn a thing about her father's experience. When Diana died, Elizabeth had all newspapers, tv and radio at Balmoral hidden from William and Harry so as not to distress them. How was doing that going to make them strong and tough enough to someday become King. William and Harry both wanted to go to Paris to retrieve their mother's body, but the Queen wanted to protect them and made them stay in Scotland. But back to the original subject. I just don't swallow the theory that Edward was a Nazi traitor. Just saying it Mr. Lascelles does not make it so. And it was a poor follow through on the part of a young Elizabeth not to ask for more proof.

If only we knew the truth about Germany and what was done to those poor people back then, the world would be a much better place now.

This is exactly like what Britain does with sh💩rael in present day. The establishment never learns

He should've been hung, but Liz didn't have the stones. I guess being a coward runs in that blood.

Tommy Lascelles is played by Pip Torrens in The Crown, not Jeremy Northam.

That last look was the definition of mortified.

Such a bizarre selective interpretation of history.

Germany made the fatal flaw of standing up to zionists. All the Zionist occupied governments in the world ganged up on them, most of all Britain.

Britain joined WW2 supposedly to “protect Poland”. And promptly handed Poland off to the Soviets. The war cost Britain everything, its place in the world, wrecked its colonies. In many ways it’s never recovered.

“The Unneccessary War” by Pat Buchanan is a great book on the sheer stupidity of this war.

Historically, how much do we really know?