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# Recap: The Crown, season finale, "Gloriana"
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/recap-the-crown-season-finale-gloriana-12-2016/
- Published: 2016-12-07T18:00:53.000Z
- Updated: 2016-12-07T17:37:04.000Z
- Description: In which the Queen completes her emotional journey from Elizabeth Windsor to Elizabeth Regina.
- Author: Heather
- Tags: Fug The Show, The Crown, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:49

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And so we reach the end of the first season, with the journey's mile markers made abundantly clear: We started with a princess, green and barely married and still seen by many as a girl, and end with a woman alone on a pedestal underneath a crown that has usurped some of her personhood.

Margaret closes the Peter Townsend chapter of her life here in ways that appear to diverge from actual history, yielding a lot of the same scenes we already enjoyed in earlier episodes -- good ones, but repeats nonetheless -- for the purpose of underlining and highlighting and circling and starring and then tying a bell on the notion that Elizabeth the human and Elizabeth the Queen will often be in direct opposition to one another. And that The Crown -- as Mary of Teck herself warned -- will always win. That's the symmetry of the first season: Episode two ends with that proclamation [and a straight-on shot of Elizabeth unable to meet our theoretical gaze](https://www.gofugyourself.com/photos/fug-the-show-the-crown-recap-season-1-episode-2-hyde-park-corner/netflix-the-crown-season-1-episode-2recap-0003?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io), grieving and trembling with nerves as Mary genuflects to her; the finale concludes with another direct look at her in which she this time meets our eyes, standing tall and with a steelier spine, snapping into character and leaving us wondering how immovable the mask will prove to be.

And, there's no eye-banging. I guess we'll have to hope, for their sakes, that things get EXTREMELY randy in season two after Philip returns from Australia. See you then.