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The Crown · Season 1, Episode 15

A scene from “Unfinished Business”

Princess Margaret: It was the first room I've ever been to where nobody got up, bowed, curtsied. Some just carried on having conversations, as if I wasn't there at all. Those that did talk to me did with such indifference or nonchalance, it verged on impertinence. There was this one in particular. Tony.

Queen Elizabeth II: Anthony, surely?

Princess Margaret: No, he insisted. Tony. Armstrong-Jones. He's this photographer.

Queen Elizabeth II: Like Cecil?

Princess Margaret: Oh, no, nothing like Cecil. Couldn't be less like Cecil. Well, maybe a bit like Cecil, in that he's obviously queer. Though interestingly, Elizabeth denies it.

Queen Elizabeth II: Elizabeth who?

Princess Margaret: Cavendish. I called her when I got home last night and interrogated her. "What are the five most important things I need to know about that man?"

Queen Elizabeth II: Why five?

Princess Margaret: I don't know. Felt like the right number.

Queen Elizabeth II: Why not three?

Princess Margaret: He's more interesting than three.

Queen Elizabeth II: So, what did she say?

Princess Margaret: One, that he's Welsh.

Queen Elizabeth II: Is that interesting?

Princess Margaret: No, not particularly. That he had polio as a child. That he has a passion for inventing things. And he would never dream of being anything as straightforward as "simply queer."

Queen Elizabeth II: What on earth does that mean?

Princess Margaret: I'm not altogether sure. But I'm also not incurious to find out.

Queen Elizabeth II: What was number five?

Princess Margaret: That was five.

Queen Elizabeth II: No, Margaret, that was four.

Princess Margaret: All right. Five is I liked him.

Queen Elizabeth II: Yes, I can tell that.

Princess Margaret: There's a contempt in him.

Queen Elizabeth II: What for?

Princess Margaret: For me. For us. For everything we represent. I actually think you'd like him. That's what's so dangerous about him.

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