Series 6, Episode 6 of The Crown: the late Queen Elizabeth II attends the coronation of King Tony Blair featuring a childrens choir cover of Things Can Only Get Better by D:Ream.
@@ariass9345 I don't know about that but she was obsessed with Blair being more popular than her. However, Tony Blair's downfall was just as meteoric as his rise. He ended up being just another PM.
@@majorlagg9321 not just another PM, but the most disliked one in all Elizabeth II's reigns it is said. For the fact that it was war after war and his downfall was totally chaotic as his rising. From Tony Blair to Tony Bliar...😮
I got to be honest this is probably the weirdest season out of the whole series. We had ghosts, dream sequences of prime ministers becoming Kings, and a queen talking to her past selves. Don't get me wrong, I loved every second of it (even though some of it felt a little bit rushed) but it's definitely a sharp contrast to the rest of the seasons which were for the most part incredibly grounded.
I know right? We went to wacky backy town in this season...I guess they didn't know how else to pad out the season since they didn't want to depict the Harry/Megan drama and Elizabeth's actual death in the series lol.
The fact that the scene with the crowning and the entrance of the coronation included in the trailer FOOLED me into thinking that they actually put Charles’ coronation for the series’ ending and then i got shocked lmao
Oh, there is one thing for sure in this world, and that is that politicians would love to be Kings and Queens, they would sell their soul if necessary, that huge smile doesn't surprise me at all, even if it seems like she had anti-monarchist convictions. One of the reasons why I am a monarchist is precisely because I despise politicians, and the monarchy (in my case the Spanish one) reminds them that they are limited, that they are temporary and they cannot go further no matter how much they want to because there are things bigger and more important than them with their enormous egos and populism.
@@ThomasTrain-lo2xh The irony of her being anti-monarchist yet she takes a CBE and revels in the title given to her bastard husband. Hypocrisy of the highest order!!
This scene is genius. Especially when the choir boy starts singing and the rest joins in with full enthusiasm. But nothing beats King Tony's smirk. I love it. 🙌🏻
Do you know what beats his smirk? The thud when he hit the basement years later. That's when the Queen realized that PMs come and go but the people always loved her.
I love the idea that Elizabeth dreamed up this insanity was because the mere idea of Blair becoming the first president of a Republican Britain was just THAT unfathomable to her.
@@TheMap1997New Labour was a more moderate, non Marxist version of the labor party, that was extremely popular in the post Cold War optimist world. That all changed after the UK got increasingly involved in middle eastern wars
The royal family wearing all black with distraught faces, not even muttering the words "God save the King" as King Tony walks past with a smirk on his face, is exactly the sort of nightmares I'd imagine the Queen would have lol.
Charles, QM, and Margaret were in shock, William and Harry were speechless. Philip was undeniably angry, seeing how his lilibet worked so hard, did her duty without complain, and with so much grace, and yet had been deposed by her own people, with her family dynasty extinguished in her generation. Just guessing what they’re thinking.
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Yea I mean if this were factual and rational yea 😂 the fact that in her nightmare his name is King Tony or Tony Rex and not Anthony is even more funny @@night6724
I watched this scene with my American wife. (I'm British) I thought it was the funniest, most surreal sequence in the entire season. I could not stop laughing. I had to stop the program and explain it to her.
At this time the royal family were very unpopular because some people thought they had Diana killed (among other things). The queen and Tony Blair never really got on. Labour are more commonly republicans and anti monarchy than the Conservstives, on average. The queen had a nightmare that Tony Blair (Labour PM) was crowned King in her place. The song being sung was a popular song at the time regarding the optimism of the new millennium.
Zadok the Priest (which inspired Champions League theme) playing during the coronation, followed by the orchestral version of D:Ream's Things Can Only Get Better is just amazing
I got confused. I thought it was the cover of HOWARD JONES' Things Can Only Better. That one was popular in the USA. Never heard of D:Ream until this episode.
@@juniorjames7076 It was a 1994 hit that shook UK, European and Australian music charts. Tony Blair's Labour Party used it as their election campaign theme 3 years later and they won with a landslide in that election (with Blair becoming Prime Minister for the first time); so for many people, this song is still associated with Blair and the 1997 election.
I'm not a Labour person myself - but doesn't matter here, the scene was genius! And I love the choir verison of the song! Only thing missing was a dancing John Prescott 😂😂😂
I got confused. I thought it was the cover of HOWARD JONES' Things Can Only Better. That one was popular in the USA. Never heard of D:Ream until this episode.
If he was decades younger, I think Stephen Fry would have been a shoo-in to play David Cameron if 'The Crown' had extended its run beyond six series....
They are wild for having Tony Blair’s wife make that grinning teeth smile. In real life, Cherie Blair was known for having an unusual style of smile with her teeth showing during her husband's tenure as prime minister. The British press, as always, is brutal about it.
I remember singing things can only get better at my CLP Christmas party in 97, we used to do a mixture of Christmas songs and Labour anthems, and we did it as a hymn
This killed me. Hahahahaha, I mean this final season really was amiss for me, but it provided this image, which I will remember all my days, so that's something.
Ppl laugh a lot about this but the truth is that the monarchy was actually in deep deep trouble. Ppl were mad about the queens reaction to Diana’s death and it didn’t help that Tony Blair became PM. His wife and lot of supporters of Blair wanted him to “abolish” the Monarchy or take away their funding as they took quite a lot from taxpayers money At the end Blair toned down on it and took away that attention from that issue due to other bigger events (9/11, Iraq/Afghanistan war, the UK accepting the Euro as currency, attacks on the UK 05)
@@AudieHolland I mean no one really requested that of them until now, even then they’re still rich enough to pay their taxes, as long as they don’t spent too extravagantly on living expenses.
Whether consciously or unconsciously, I think the maker’s of The Crown showed that they weren’t great fans of the Blair Government. To be fair, I could see Bill and Hillary Clinton doing something like this if the US was a monarchy.
I got confused. I thought it was the cover of HOWARD JONES' Things Can Only Better. That one was popular in the USA. Never heard of D:Ream until this episode.
it wouldn't have to be. It would be a sacred investiture ceremony where you'd sign an oath for a term of 5 years to dedicate yourself to the people. It's definitely very possible and in fact it's exactly what I thought when looking at this scene@@drevenypribor6144
Not necessarily. Monarchs choose their regnal names, and not all take their given name. George VI's name was Albert. Edward VII was known as David. Edward VII's name was Albert. There was speculation for a long time that when Charles became king, he would take the regnal name George VII to show continuity from his grandfather rather than be associated with the Stuart monarchs Charles I and Charles II. That's the long way of saying that IF something like this had actually happened, Tony Blair would have likely chosen the regnal name Tony over any other name.
This did make me laugh when I first saw. As I remember the days when Tony Blair and New Labour we’re incredibly popular. As there was even a moment in the election of 1997 “were you up for Portillo?” Where one of the largest shocks of the election came when Michael Portillo lost his safe tory seat to Stephen Twigg a labour rookie
