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(Of course, I could have stopped watching, but I wasntthatbored.)
In season four,so much happens.
We get episode after episode of deliciously detailed historical vignettes of lesser-known moments in royal history.
(And some better known ones, too, obviously.)
This list is by no means exhaustive, but itisin chronological order!
Whoa, did the IRA really murder Lord Mountbatten?
I thought it must be the boat.
I rushed out, got into the car and drove where I thought the boat would have been.
I knew that nobody could have survived that.
Who are the other 18 people in the we got 18 and Mountbatten chant?
Also whats Bloody Sunday?
Does Prince Charles actually not eat lunch?
(Episode 1, Gold Stick)Uhhhh, maybe.
At least not while hes traveling on royal tours ifone palace insider is to be believed.
Did Margaret Thatcher really fire her entire cabinet?
She also, the WashingtonPostreports,transferred a fourth member to Northern Ireland.
Was that line from Prince Charles about whatever in love means something he actually said?
(Episode 3, Fairytale)Yes.And you’re able to watch him say it.
Whats the deal with Margaret Thatchers son and this car race thing?
(Episode 4, Favourites)Mark Thatcher did in fact go missing during the Paris-Dakar rally in 1982.
Thatcher agreed,and according Thatcher himself, promptly forgot about the race for a year and a half.
(Peopleregularly die competing in this raceand the course has claimed lives as recently as this year.)
The biggest story of 1982 was the Falklands war, Thatcher later wrote inThe Guardian.
The second biggest also involved my mother … and me.
A person just snuck into Buckingham Palace undetected?
And talked to the Queen from her bed?
(Episode 5, Fagan)Yes well, mostly yes.
(Fun fact:He was reportedly barefootby the time he reached Her Majesty.)
(He also described the Queens pajamas as a knee-length nightgown in a Liberty print.)
And he did this twice?Reportedly, yes.
Fagan claimed before his unscheduled audience with the Queen he broke into the palace and left undetected.
I was breaking my neck to go to the toilet.
What do I do?
Pee on the carpet?
So I had to pee on the corgi food.
Fagan revealed the car theft during his police investigation,according toThe Sun.
(Episode 7, The Hereditary Principle)Yes and no/maybe.
The cousins did exist.
Katherine and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon were daughters of John Herbert Bowes-Lyon and his wife, Fenella.
Herbert was the queen mothers brother, which made Katherine and Nerissa Elizabeth and Margarets cousins.
(These were Fenellas sister Harriets children.
All five of them reportedly suffered from the same intellectual disability reportedly passed down from their maternal grandfather.)
Formal records of the royal family marked Nerissa and Katherine as dead in 1940.
Nerissa lived the rest of her life at the hospital until she died at age 66 in 1986.
News of the royal cousins existencedid not break until 1987, after her death.
(She died in 2014.)
(Episode 9, Avalanche)While skiing in March of 1988 on Mt.
Gotschnagrat in Switzerland, Prince Charles was swept away in an avalanche.
