The Crown (TV Series)

The Hereditary Principle (2020)

Helena Bonham Carter: Princess Margaret

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• Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother : Then the way things suddenly changed for all of us, none of us could have foreseen it.

  Princess Margaret : It? What's it?

  Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother : Well, the abdication...

  Princess Margaret : No! 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, 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.

• Princess Margaret : I asked you for just one thing. To give me work! A purpose! Dignity.

  Queen Elizabeth II : Yes, and if it were up to me, I would have given it all to you, the whole show, gladly, from day one. But, it's *not.* So we have to live with it.

  Princess Margaret : No. I will have to live with it, not you. *I* will!