Thank you so much for sharing this. It is very reassuring. So glad too to hear I’ve a FreeRepublic friend of ‘The Crown.’ Upon the last available episode, I immediately absorbed myself on every documentary and article I could get my hands on about the royal family history as well as the individuals themselves. Of course I’m a huge fan of much of English Literature from C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien (his son and grandson live here in Santa Barbara), Dickens, The Brontë sisters, Austen, Elliot, even poor Woolf, and of course Shakespeare, Doyle, Carroll, Kipling, Byron, Lawrence . . . lol. There seems to be no end! Just by reading Austen as a young lady, I behaved from that point forward as a woman who’d been to finishing school! :D
You may also enjoy the 2006 film “The Queen” starring Helen Mirren in the title role. It dealt very deeply with the crisis created by Charles and Diana’s separation and her death, and depicted the Queen’s relationship with the Prime Minister at the time (it was Blair). The scenes of her communing with nature at her Scottish estate, where she sheltered William and Harry in the immediate aftermath of Diana’s death, were breathtaking.
Also regarding Charle’s defense of persecuted Christians, see my post 54 above.