Knowledge Is Power | The Crown (Claire Foy, Alan Williams) 

Eisenhower could ride.

Eisenhower was quite familiar with horses. He was injured while riding a horse during his time at the US Military Academy and it nearly cost him a shot at becoming a commissioned officer. And later on, he had to train a horse named Blackie, which he often said was rather stubborn, during his time in the army. If anything, riding horses was probably the one common ground they had

Exactly! It is a bit like what Harold Wilson said to her later in the show: "we can't be everything to everyone and still be true to ourselves." But later in this episode, the professor makes a much more important point: "[She was] drilled for years in the finer points of our Constitution. You know it better than me, better than ✨️all✨️ of us. You have the only education that matters." At least, the only education she would need. She might have felt embarrassed about turning the conversation to dogs and horses, but just look how knowledgeable she was on both subjects! It's not that that's ALL she knew, but it was her comfort zone, I get that.

Pretty sure professor did that a little on purpose to make her feel better about herself. So nice of him regarding his position.

She never felt stupid. You are confusing unintelligent with uneducated.

And it is completely true.

We have far more in common - Cornish, English, Irish, Scots & Welsh - than our divisions allow. And we face a greater enemies now - one that threatens all our futures. /

​@@zen4menfascism was what Britain fought against in its finest hour and now you want to bring it here.

​@@john.premose Nonsense. You merely reveal yourself by your inaccurate and unsulting comment. / 99 percent of those who served in WW2 would have refused to fight if they could see the state of Britain's cities today. A command and control system is being built in every district in the country. This is funded by the Arabs. Their religion demands TOTAL global control. Everything that religion does is geared to that end. / Stuffing cities with that religion means that vast numbers of key jobs will fall into their hands, meaning they are the rudder steering the ship. Example - the immigration judge recently jailed for a huge racket - the tip of the iceberg. / When riots next break out, to "keep the peace" tens of thousands of co-religionists - many placed here by dinghy in a huge operation costing hundreds of millions - will be armed. Patroling the streets. Sharia law will be enforced. / We will wake up to a coup d'etat. /

She actually knows more than the professor on the subject of horse racing. I love her little smile when she realises it. She's not as stupid as she thinks she is!

Horses seem like a tastefully royal hobby. No shame in loving horses.

She did have a tutor.

She was highly educated by experts in the British constitution, politics and governance, even as a child. The Queen did not go to school or university, she was trained privately by tutors, brilliant minds in their fields, because it was always known she’d be Head of State. However, she was caught on the hop because her father suddenly deteriorated and died 20 years earlier than his presumed life expectancy.

@@tommoncrieff1154 She was 25 when her father died. His death was not the reason for the gaps in her education - his choices were.

@tommoncrieff1154 Not necessarily, when she was born her uncle was still childless, but they weren't 100% sure that she'd end up being Queen until Edward VIII abdicated. That being said, her parents were in their mid-30s at the time, it may well have still been possible for them to have more children, so maybe even then it wasn't a slam-dunk yet, since brothers still inherited first at the time

@@dillonlehane7134 They already knew the Queen Mother couldn't have more children, she'd had the first two by Caesarean and that was the limit according to medical wisdom at the time.

That was another bit that jarred. Scotland is almost all Presbyterian, I thought, in my pagan ignorance. Should not the Queen of the United Kingdom have known that little bit about an important set of her subjects?

@@indrajitgupta3280 Idk, maybe she thinks American Presbyterians are different from Scottish? (But we're not that different.)

I've known Presbyterians who went the immersion route, but yeah, sprinkling's pretty typical.

@TheGreatWerebear Yeah, we consider immersion to be _a_ (not _the_ ) legitimate form of baptism, but most Presbyterians don't do something difficult or fancy when something simple is an option.

It’s almost like when she extended the hand of friendship to Catholics in Northern Ireland, which being an Irish Catholic myself, was so heartwarming ❤

She might have been a monster, but I did love that "practical demonstration" of her point when Littlefinger tried to blackmail her 🤣🤣🤣

&michaelplunkett, I read an account by an art historian who was shown the world class art collection on display by her and indicated she knew nothing st all about the paintings or the artists, all great masters, but was keen on the horses and dogs depicted. Not what I would call a broad education. It’s surprising because as a princess who wasn’t expected to inherit, one would think she’d would have been better educated about the arts and been raised as a cultivated woman. She would have been a working royal and could have presumably been the patron of many arts organizations. We see how hard Princess Anne works.

Life is already hard competing amongst billions of people, no need to compare yourself to non-humans too. There are probably inanimate objects out there that have achieved greatness.

Oh my goodness you're right. And he's so affable and sympathetic here! Quite a difference.

Damn, I wouldn't had known. He played two different characters very well.

OK, an amendment: after high school Camilla went to a finishing school, and then studied French and French literature at a university in Paris for six months.

His back was turned when she put her head down

He came to tutor her on another subject. She asked specifically if he could brief her on Eisenhower instead as he was coming for a visit so he asked for time to prepare for the Eisenhower tutorial.