Margaret Has to Step Down from Her Royal Duties | The Crown (Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter) 

I admire Princess Margaret. It is said that at a dinner party someone asked her how the queen was. Her response was “To whom are you referring? My mother, my sister or my husband?”

"He's an immature useless boy" "Yes that may be" Edward getting disrespected by his own Mother XD

Helena Bonham Carter always brings a top performance to anything she does. This scene amongst the sisters is amazing to watch.

"So....What do you want? It can't be good news or you wouldn't have brought Lurch" 😂😂😂

I just love the way Elizabeth always be fidgeting/trembling whenever she had to deliver bad news to Margaret..lol..such good acting..with both the younger and older actresses..

What I like about this scene is the ticking clock in the background when Margaret is complaining about time

Strangely enough her majesty remembered about “the rules” only when she didn’t want to bend them…

So beautifully conceived and acted that you occasionally forget how absurd the existence of a monarchy is.

“ANOTHER friend of Dorothy’s” 😂

Charities may have preferred the exciting new princess, but there are always more charities wanting royal patrons than can be accommodated so she would never have found it difficult to find patronages. Indeed, she had a great many right up until she died.

Every word and sound I heard from Margaret (Helena) , I see the Red Queen with my eyes closed

They couldn’t let her have Peter because of her duty but they couldn’t give her that either. And they wonder why she went crazy.

"Friend of Dorothy's " I think it means gay guy.

Helena is an absolute joy to watch on screen. She’s sooooooo good! Eats up Every scene.

I love their, "Hello, You." "And, hello...Him." LOL

That's why she drank ! She had resentment

Princess Margaret always got the short end of the stick

2:36 clever to have a clock ticking in the background

'Margo' was treated appallingly by the Establishment - no wonder she went off the rails.

Charles changed the rules. He kept Anne and Edward in their places.

“He’s an immature useless boy?” “Yes that may be, but we have to play by the rules.“ The fact that she agreed 🤣🤣🤣

Whats the point of being Queen if Elizabeth has to "follow rules"? Poor Margaret, I feel her pain.

Helena Bonham Carter is a national treasure.

Edward turned 21 in March of 1985. Margaret must have know this was coming.

"Edward's an immature useless boy" to this bloody day

Just step down from being a senior royal and do what you want. You only have one life. Why be miserable?

Judy Garland was an avid civil rights and lgbtq activist. She also played Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. When they say, “Friend of Dorothy” they’re subtly implying that the person is LGBTQ

All Margaret had to do was find some unseemly, questionable new charitable thing and Boom! Royal duties resumed, lol!

"Another friend of Dorothy's" If you know, you know!

As a historian, unfortunately, I am firmly on the side of the Queen here. By this time, it was well known that Margaret was a severe alcoholic, addicted to several substances, and that she was displaying symptoms of the personality disorders which have increasingly plagued the Royal family throughout the last two centuries. It was Elizabeth's duty to safeguard the institution of the crown, and that is what she did.

This was Harry's future. This is the future for all the spares. Yet they get angry when he leaves. He saw what happened to all the spares and he walked away before he became this.

You would think they would look it up before writing this scene. There are five counsellors of state, not six. The consort and the next four in line to the throne that are over 21 (or over 18 for the Prince of Wales).

One of the most privileged humans to ever draw breath...wrought with ennui.

“Edward’s an immature useless boy!” “That may be” Bahahaha

I certainly can commiserate here. She needs a purpose and all she gets is endless time and unfilled days. It is the lot of many of us over 65.

“Oh nooo. I have to do even LESS work in a day!”

Weird why Bellatrix didn't Avada Kadavra the queen.

Maggie realising back then what Harry is having trouble reconciling himself to now - once the hereditary kids come along, the siblings that were hitherto always in the picture get pushed out of frame. As far as tragedies go, not something people with actual problems might find much empathy for.

Plenty of things she could have done. Spoilt and easily bored. She refused to follow basic protocols and wanted excitement without responsibility and effort. The Queen had her hands full with a dramatic sister and a controlling mother.

I wish to step down from my royal duties, as well.

This is nonsense Margaret loathed most of her royal "duties" starting when she was 18 and preferred her charitable work which she mostly did quietly. The Crown takes too many artistic liberties.

Lurch😂😂😂😂 😂 0:47

Margaret would've known about this Rule of Succession, as the Queen also would have...

This show makes a mockery of the royals. Them shouting "give me work! dignity! purpose!" is kinda insane.

Gorgeous room!

"Can't be good news, otherwise, you wouldn't have brought Lurch". Nice to see Margaret watching the Addams Family. I feel bad for Margaret, she was always let down my the Royals.

Even if this happened as dramatical as this in real life, it would be very illogical to suddenly realising Prince Edward is turning 21 and his Aunt has to step down... Like everyone has forgotten a rule that magically popped up out of nowhere. It's hard to believe it hadn't been talked about for a longer period of time...

The way she said "Time"😂

There's no way Margaret wouldn't have known that this was coming and that the number was 6.

She should have thought about the longstanding effects of the damage to her reputation when she was cavorting with Roddy Llewellyn in Mustique.

It shows the insanity of it all as if they wanted to the act could be amended, a non-controversial addition of “siblings of the Sovereign” as Councilors of State would be speedily approved.

lol “I have the maturity and wisdom” yep like she deserved the position because of it…

Man, sometimes this series serves us real shit, I mean in general, when it comes to accuracy but I don't care... the cast is just a feast. I could watch Helene Bonham Carter and Olivia Coleman the whole day and they are not the only ones in there but definitely on top.

the Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen of Hearts

Margaret was a spoiled woman. She could do anything she wanted but she was just whining,

Cant always get what you want.

LURCH was in fact Edward the 8th actor who abdicated his throne for Mrs Simpson in another adaptation Elizabeth and Bertie many moons ago

i feel her pain 😭 oh poor woman, Margaret

All she ever wanted was the spotlight and the attention without the responsibilities.

no use for royalty. all of them egomaniacs

Oh, it’s a complicated world.

Margaret should have been allowed to marry Townshend, and Charles Camilla. Look whats been married since

Elizabeth couldn’t even look her in the eye when the man was speaking. Sheesh, what a meek showing from her here.

She lost her man. I would have gone insane. Take anything but my husband is mine.

In a case like this, the monarchy shoots itself in the foot. It makes no operational sense at all for experienced senior Royals on the COS to make way for young adults who are still at school and completely inexperienced at doing engagements. That’s like firing all your senior VPs in a company and replacing them with new grads who know absolutely nothing. It’s not even a case of them working cheaper because all full time working Royals are supported by the Sovereign grant. Anne and Edward had to make way in their turn for Charles’ sons. William was the future monarch but who thinks that 21-year old wild child Harry was more of an asset than Edward became with more maturity? The Man who became the Duke of Edinburgh after his father is now indispensable, and thank God that king Charles is more willing to buck tradition then his mother was; faced with two completely useless Knobheads in Andrew and Harry, Charles reinstated his other two siblings to the COS. Harry doesn’t even live in the country any more and was NEVER entrusted with any jobs on behalf of HM during his tenure, now officially 18 years long. He is an every sense a worthless paper counselor. Charles has not taken the unprecedented step of removing his wayward son, But effectively Harry is out. It remains to be seen whether king William will retain his aunt and uncle permanently even after his own children come of age. Because technically Anne and Edward would have to step down after George and Charlotte reach 21. But that is a very poor personnel management strategy, Considering how few Royals are actually left that qualify. I think this rule came about centuries ago when people did not live as long, and 21 year olds were more capable. The late Queen was never one to defy her courtiers when it came to tradition, but a good many of her family members would have been far happier and more effective if she had. Her late Majesty was a remarkably humble person considering her station, not one to make scenes and without the stomach for rocking the boat. Like her father she was a stickler for the constitutional protocols. She did her best but some points of archaic law do not serve the current Royal forces well at all. Charles is perceived as stuffy but really within his sphere he is an iconoclast. Adding seats to the COS; getting his second wife declared Queen; promoting organic farming on Royal estates and flinging open Royal properties to the public for free tea rooms- Charles is in his way quite innovative. Innovation was not in the Queen’s wheelhouse, God rest her blessed memory.

I feel so bad for Margaret, she always got the short end of the stick, no wonder she drank and smoked so much.

Oh cause she has such a spectacular record of being a model royal

Doubtful Margaret wanted “work”. She was a party girl and loved her life.

Watching the Crown, I feel Princess Margaret was done wrong. The Queen just wouldn't let her shine. She wanted her there when she needed her. The Queen could have made some acceptions. imo.

This really irks me, not the show but about the real Princess Margaret believing that because she was the Queen's sister she should be allowed to marry whom she wanted. We all know how Edward gave up the throne to marry a twice divorced woman. What made Margaret believe it would be different for her? Her sister, the Queen was the head of the church of England. Which at that time forbade anyone marrying a person who was divorced with their former spouse still alive to marry. And that guy whom Margaret was so in love with knew this having served Princess Margaret's father and knowing how he came to the throne. And Margaret knew this as well, but she truly thought because she was the Queen's sister she would get what she wanted. I am so glad that the late Queen stuck to the rules of the church and not give into her sister's whims. It showed she had strength to up hold the rules for all of them.

Helena Bonham-Carter. The role, she's born to portray HRH Princess Margaret.

British royalty is such a theatre act. Nothing but money and titles and nothing more than power of influence. Amazing this stuff happens in the real world

Margaret's children were literally persona non grata ever since "Moondust". Was their 'disappearing act' in this series a metaphor to their relationship with their mother?

Quite odd that so many people here commenting about poor Margaret's lot in life that were not alive when she was disgracing the crown on a regular basis. Flaunting protocol and tradition with abysmal morals and public displays of ethical bankruptcy. She embarrassed her sister and her mother on a regular basis, yet could never seem to comprehend why she removed to the margins.

She could always have got an actual job or volunteered at a charity to fill her time

Olivia and Helen are equally as good as Meryl❤❤

“Lurch” in this scene was Micheal Gregson in Downton Abbey! ( lady Edith’s first lover)

Horrible. Ridiculous rule!! King George's daughter, she is King George's daughter.

the councillor of state doesn't do much, and Margaret understood how the system worked. I doubt this is even remotely true.

These rules that the Royal Family were patently ridiculous at times. Shuffling members about because of the rules... tsk, tsk. Margaret should have pitched a bigger fit to knock some sense into her older sister. The one who always surrenders to pointless protocol.

The fact that the queen knew the term friend of Dorothy but the us army didn’t is kinda funny

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A dark room at No 10 KP .

This has to be "true" ... which is why Princess Anne is still working, K Charles learned. I can't see her going quietly into the night.

She is right. She aged out.

A lot of fiction was used making this, as only the late Queen and Margaret in the room, who’s to say what was really said.

I know this just a series but m so delighted wht marget went through after wht she puts diana

Im always surprised why people create stupid rules for themselves, obey stupid rules and are miserable in the end xd

Who are the 6 senior royals?

What an amazing job by Helena Bonham Carter.

Helena's (Margaret) portrayal was the best. Claire Foy for Elizabeth.

Elizabeth didn't allow her anything she really wanted & needed.

No sympathy for Margaret at all. She lived the high life of Riley but wanted the royal treatment/role as well. Entitled to nothing.

None of them HAVE TO do anything. Lot of the firm in real life saying their hands are tied when they do some messed up shit. Literally that they removed one person from position due to birth and not merit.

"Lurch" ......... ❤ it !

They do very little and get paid an absolute fortune. For those that say that they work very hard - tell that to a coal miner or nurse 😮

Had no idea the British (especially the RF) used the expressions Friend of Dorothy or Lurch, lol.

for every george vi you get an edward viii; for every victoria you get an edward vii

If this is accurate, I didn't realise how much cra* the Queen had to take and that was just from the family! ❤

Poor Elisabeth, beset by leeches, having to be strong in the face of them.