Smoke and Mirrors

The Crown 1×5

Queen Elizabeth: The Queen is young. And has to learn what any young general has to learn.
Tommy Lascelles: Namely?
Queen Elizabeth: Which battles to fight and which to leave.
Tommy Lascelles: Let me know what you want me to do.
Queen Elizabeth: The same as always, Tommy. Exactly as I tell you.

Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Why not use a celebration such as this, the investiture of a new sovereign, a beautiful young child, symbol of modernity, change and progress, to turn a page? Surely the sophistication of a society can be measured by its tolerance and ability to forgive.
Tommy Lascelles: Its weakness, too. Sometimes lines just need to be drawn.

Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: I'm not going to let your coronation be like this. You're a young woman. Symbol of a new era. In a fast-changing, modern world. And I think your coronation should reflect that.

David, Duke of Windsor: Oils and oaths. Orbs and sceptres. Symbol upon symbol. An unfathomable web of arcane mystery and liturgy. Blurring so many lines no clergyman or historian or lawyer could ever untangle any of it.
— It's crazy.
David, Duke of Windsor: On the contrary. It's perfectly sane. Who wants transparency when you can have magic? Who wants prose when you can have poetry? Pull away the veil and what are you left with? An ordinary young woman of modest ability and little imagination. But wrap her up like this, anoint her with oil, and hey, presto, what do you have? A goddess.

— And to think you turned all that down... The chance to be a god.
David, Duke of Windsor: I turned it down for something greater still...
Duchess of Windsor: For love.

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