Princess Margaret: Not everything that is wrong with this family can be explained away by the abdication.
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: Well, the abdication did change everything. You were too young to understand. Everything. It's complicated.
Princess Margaret: No, it's not! It's wicked, and it's cold-hearted, and it's cruel. And it's entirely in keeping with the ruthlessness I myself have experienced in this family. If you're not first in line, if you're an individual character with individual needs, and God forbid an irregular temperament ... If you don't fit the perfect mold of silent, dutiful supplication, then you'll be spat out, or you'll be hidden away, or, worse, declared dead! Darwin had nothing on you lot. Shame on all of you.
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