Olding

The Crown 3×1

— Everyone at the Post Office is delighted with the new profile, ma'am, which they feel to be an elegant reflection of Her Majesty's transition from young woman to...
Queen Elizabeth II: Old bat?
— ...mother of four and settled sovereign.
Queen Elizabeth II: Hmm.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: A friend of mine at the lunch club. He had a whole theory about Wilson being turned while on a trade mission to Russia. Said he even had a KGB code name. "Olding."

Queen Elizabeth II: So, to that end, what would you say constitutes early modern?
Anthony Blunt: The end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Roughly late 15th century to late 18th century.
Queen Elizabeth II: And what era are we in now, do you suppose? The frighteningly modern?
Anthony Blunt: I think that all depends on the result of the general election today.

Queen Elizabeth II: You think Mr. Wilson has a chance?
Winston Churchill: I'm afraid I do. I think we must face the cold wind of socialism blowing through this land once more.

Queen Elizabeth II: I can't imagine what that would be like... having a prime minister one didn't trust... when one thinks what it was like with you...
Winston Churchill: I was a terrible bully.
Queen Elizabeth II: You were my guardian angel. The roof over my head. The spine in my back. The iron in my heart. You were the compass that steered and directed me. Not just me, all of us. Where would Great Britain be without its... greatest Briton? God bless you, Winston.

Queen Elizabeth II: So, not two different people?
Anthony Blunt: Two different versions of the same person.
Queen Elizabeth II: Which might as well be two different people. The idealized version of themselves they want to be seen, and the less desirable person they really are, hidden away. There's even a word for it: "palimpsest."
Anthony Blunt: That generally applies to manuscripts, ma'am. "Pentimento" for paintings.
Queen Elizabeth II: Pentimento... Well, I think I speak for everyone here when I say none of us will be able to trust or look at anything in the same way ever again.

Queen Elizabeth II: Are you an art man?
Harold Wilson: Art?
Queen Elizabeth II: Yes, art. Paintings.
Harold Wilson: Well, actually, no. No. Uh... I'm an economist, a statistician at heart. I'm happiest with numbers. You can trust numbers. They're honest. There's no mystery or deception or allegory. You know where you stand. What you see is what you get. And I prefer things that way.
Queen Elizabeth II: I quite agree.

Anthony Blunt: We all tell ourselves all sorts of things to make sense of the past. So much so that our fabrications, if we tell them to ourselves often enough, become the truth. In our minds and everyone else's.

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