Television, drug of the nation

I'm no fan of the royal family at all, but I really like it as well.

It's pretty obvious from watching it that Peter Morgan is a republican as well (and he has said as much), and it doesn't shy away from showing the hypocrisy, the (over)privilege and the powerlessness and sometimes the pointlessness of the royals.

But it's also very good at contextualising their lives, and making you realise how it must be to live in such a weird little bubble. The parts about Elizabeth and Philip's marriage, and the constant blow to his ego that is having to be second fiddle when it's suggested that it's clearly in his nature to be an arrogant, domineering prick is fascinating.

You should give it a go. If only for the speech that Princess Margaret gives to the white Rhodesians.