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The last scene with Blair and the Queen

posted 4 years ago by ajr01 (51)
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I think in that last scene the Queen as she is portrayed behaved like an absolute b.... She just stared at him grimacingly, when he tried to show courtesy & deference to her, and appreciate that she had navigated a crisis quite successfully. One gets the impression she was angry at him for having proved himself correct on how to deal with this problem! She then attributes his motives here to any future bad headlines he may be involved in, and then saying that will indeed happen, and without warning! As Cherie had said earlier Blair was indeed "the saviour of the monarchy", and if it had not followed his advice, the reactions of the British public may have been very different.

[–] Hybrid66 (1502) 2 years ago

In reality, he acted very inapproriately to HM, revealing to the press what the Queen talked about.

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[–] ajr01 (51) 2 years ago

Well that was because, based on the story line, Mr Robin Javrin (the Queen's private secretary) telephoned the PM to indicate Elizabeth had been taken completely by shock at the public's reaction to Diana's death, and in her own mind, (based on past traumatic experiences like the abdication and her father's premature death), was in denial over the significance of this. Because the Royal Family weren't communicating with the public, Blair saw it as his duty to be a sort of spokesperson for them. As he said to Robin, "I'll see what I can do, but I can't promise anything. It's not me they want to see", in an attempt to reverse the terrible newspaper headlines attacking Her Majesty, and her family.