Mary McNamara: 'The Crown' was Netflix's crown jewel. Then it pushed Queen Elizabeth II aside
In the last few minutes of the "The Crown's" Season 4 finale, Prince Philip (Tobias Menzies) attempts to connect with and comfort the increasingly isolated and unhappy Princess Diana (Emma Corrin). When she responds in too-little-too-late frustration and threatens to "break away," Philip reminds her what the royal family, and indeed "The Crown," is all about — the queen.
"Everyone in this system is a lost, lonely, irrelevant outsider," he tells her, "apart from the one person, the only person, that matters. She's the oxygen we all breathe, the essence of all our duty. Your problem, if I may say, is you seem to be confused about who that person is."
Diana, as it turns out, it once had.
