In a scene from the first season of The Crown, on the day of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953, the Duke of Windsor, watching the images of the ceremony on television, exclaims: “Who wants transparency when you can have magic? ? Who wants prose when you can have poetry?
The English monarchy has a poetic rhythm that gives musicality while combining pomposity with harmony, even adding the surprising virtue of silence.
On Saturday we went live in a medieval series where everything is fallacious and only fiction seems true. Even the carriage of these real Cinderellas was drawn by six horses, but with air conditioning, heating and electric windows. The fiction of the Middle Ages and the reality of Christopher Nolan in a crown literally wrapped around the head of King Carlos, who wore it more soberly than Queen Camila. (Poor woman, who carried the crown like a circus tightrope walker who supports a bar with two cyclists on her head.)
The monarchy is easy to parody especially when it pretends to be true or show modernity. The adventures of Harry and Megan are the insubstantial of the monarchy, or the sincere yawns during the coronation of Luis, the nicest and ergo less monarchical grandson of the family. When the world smiled with the beauty and closeness of Diana of Wales she was turning Buckingham Palace into a playground. "I would like to be your tampax" was the consequence of an erroneous marriage, forced by the queen, who placed royalty at the same level as her subjects. Camila survived Diana and, despite wearing the crown as Mr. Potato would, the British already know that the evil stepmother really is the closest thing to what royalists perceive.
If royalty pretends to be like us, the inviolabilities make even less sense, the excessive wedding attire will no longer look like a catwalk for commoners and the front page of yesterday's newspapers will be pure joke. It will be shouted that the king is naked, the people will not understand so much pomp and the carriage will turn into a pumpkin. And it is that from wanting to be lackeys so much, it begins to be perceived that The crown is indeed only a fictional series.
