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# The Crown S3 E8 Recap
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/the-crown-s3-e8-recap/
- Published: 2019-12-06T16:45:13.000Z
- Updated: 2019-12-06T07:27:50.000Z
- Author: Heather
- Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:07

## God Bless the Actors

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-1-1575605262.jpg)

Derek Jacobi gives it his all as David, but he lacks the sly, slithery quality of Alex Jennings. This David is more of a kindly old dying gentleman, which is... a choice. (And not necessarily of Jacobi's.)

## God Bless the Throw Pillow

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-3-1575605270.jpeg)

Geraldine Chaplin's Wallis is in a near-constant tizzy, fluttering about him at all times and beaming adoringly at him or patting his hand. This seems revisionist also, but I do at least appreciate some of her decor.

## God Bless the Extras

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-4-1575605278.jpeg)

These two got Emperor Hirohito to come over for a visit to boost David's profile one last time, and while being made up, he makes an inappropriate crack about kabuki. Blessedly, the man playing his servant, Sidney, does a very subtle "WTF you douche" doubletake. 

## God Bless the Hats

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-5-1575605288.jpeg)

The Emperor shows up, takes a pic, and leaves. This is the one part of the episode that gets at the more scheming aspects of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and it's here ALMOST entirely so that David can make it clear that he misses ruling his own island.

## God Save the Grin

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-6-1575605298.jpeg)

I did laugh out loud at Wallis's insane smile here. [The costume is pretty close to accurate](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b1/36/f7/b136f7a2eb35b53cc90e1b9985a62845.jpg?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io), and the grin isn't THAT far off actually either.

## God Save Marion Davies

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-7-1575605306.jpeg)

Drink your tea, Marion. You'll have almost nothing to say today. Again.

## God Save the Lovers

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-10-1575605316.jpeg)

This is our first introdution to Andrew and Camilla. She's portrayed as trying to give him a taste of his own medicine by ditching him to go out with another man; the running theme in the episode is that these two had a long-running on/off affair that only kept ending because he was reluctant to commit and she would get angry.

## God Save OUR HERO

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-11-1575605325.jpeg)

Later that night -- in this timeline -- Andrew went to a party and was re-introduced to Anne, who complains, "I look like a hydrangea." I love you, Erin. 

## God Save the Flirt

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-12-1575605334.jpeg)

Andrew blunders that she's really "developed" since he last saw her. She archly notes that that've met before, and somehow she's gone from invisible to visible, "and now you're making up for it by gawping." He says he's sorry, and she groans, "I hate it when men apologize. It isn't honorable or chivalrous, it's WET." He's speechless, and she twinkles, "I didn't say I objected to \[the gawping\], did I?" YOU MINX. I KNEW IT.

## God Save the Orgasm

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-13-1575605342.jpeg)

Apparently Andrew Parker-Bowles knew what he was doing. Andrew is of course concerned Anne will have Expectations, so he starts to describe Camilla to her in boating terms. "Do I need to brace myself for a nautical metaphor?" she sasses amazingly, and he once again forges ahead with basically calling their relationship a hurricane that capsizes every other craft around both of them. "This conversation is going round and round in circles. I preferred it when *we* were going round and round in circles," Anne says, and BOOM, there is more banging. 

## God Save the Polo

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-14-1575605351.jpeg)

Naturally, Chaz and Andy face off on the polo grounds the next day, with Andrew getting the best of Charles and his still-developing forearms...

## God Save the Feathered Hair

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-16-1575605368.jpeg)

... while Camilla cheers Charles on loudly. We don't get that many looks at Emerald Fennell -- it feels like they tried to edit around her, somehow? -- but here is one.

## God Save the Balcony

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-15-1575605360.jpeg)

The Crown spends so much money on all of its locations and scenes; it must have run out, because this polo match looks like it was attended by about nine people.

## God Save the Angles

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-18-1575605377.jpeg)

I grabbed this because it's UNCANNY in this shot how much he evokes Charles.

## God Save the Coral

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-19-1575605386.jpeg)

"I'm a bit bored of this season, actually, Philip."

## God Save the Monologue

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-24-1575605403.jpeg)

Next, Charles asks Camz over to dinner, and conversation turns to a very sad speech about his awkward non-position, in which he quotes Saul Bellow's *Dangling Man* and says that he's living "not so much an existence as a predicament. I am both free and imprisoned. Utterly superfluous and quite indispensible... \[T\]he thing you most dread is the thing you most desire. No, not-- well, *yes*, desire. Because until she dies, I cannot be fully alive." These are familiar feelings from *The Royal We*. 

## God Save the Prankster

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-25-1575605410.jpeg)

And yet what happens next is that Camilla is delivered an envelope RIGHT at the end of this speech, and she opens it, and a bunch of confetti jumps out at her, and she screams and Charles cracks up. Then he makes fun of what he was just saying, as if to imply he only did it to make sure the scare really truly GOT her...?!? It's SUPER nerdy and kind of endearing, but also weird. Charles truly may not have had any game. Although I guess it worked?

## God Save the Ice Cream Spoon

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-26-1575605419.jpeg)

When David's interview with the BBC airs, the Queen Mum snacks her way through it angrily.

## God Save Tobias Menzies

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-27-1575605427.jpeg)

The Queen watches in a very pretty color, looking worried, and Tobias Menzies looks disgusted. YOU ARE CORRECT, SIR.

## God Save the Stripe

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-28-1575605436.jpeg)

I KNEW Anne would be a Fug National. I KNEW IT.

## God Save the Close-Up

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-29-1575605443.jpeg)

This is Wallis's expression for like 90 percent of this episode. David coughs, and she looks beside herself.

## God Save the Overhead Bins

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-30-1575605452.jpeg)

I look at this set, and I think, "As soon as they hit turbulance, ALL that stuff is going to fall down on them."

## God Save the Lilac

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-31-1575605460.jpeg)

She looks lovely in this color, on TV and in real life.

## God Save the Stripes II

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-33-1575605469.jpeg)

... PERHAPS QE2 WOULD ALSO HAVE BEEN A FUG NATIONAL. If she were, we'd have counseled her about her disgusting third child VERY sternly and a long time ago.

## God Save the Vanity

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-34-1575605479.jpeg)

The one other sign of David's vanity in this episode was when he finds out Elizabeth is coming to see him, and wills himself out of his deathbed to reclaim as much of himself against her as he can. In this scene, he brings up Charles's ascension, and Elizabeth's face IMMEDIATELY drops and David calls her out on feeling like he's too wishy-washy - then says that with the right woman by his side, he'll be fine (is Morgan *really* putting *this* fucking guy on the right side of history here with Camilla?). He also gives her all of Charles's letters -- "They shed light on the soul of a future king, but also on your son," and should fall into no one else's hands, he says. He adds, "For all of England, for what I did to you, forgive me." She at least doesn't say, "Okay, DON!" She replies instead, "Thank you."

## God Save the Dog

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2019/12/the-crown-season-3-episode-8-recap-35-1575605487.jpeg)

This is a flashback to Charles's time spent with Wallis and David, which we're made to think was SUPER cuddly and warm and full of love and awesomeness. Because I guess David is the new hero of the show!!!!!!!!!!!! He breathes his last at the end of the hour, and somehow we STILL end up with more lavish praise heaped upon him in a future episode. To quote myself again... I can't.

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