{"id":206337,"date":"2022-11-14T17:48:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T15:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=206337"},"modified":"2022-11-28T16:58:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T14:58:30","slug":"the-value-of-the-crown-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/the-value-of-the-crown-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The value of \u2018The Crown\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <strong>Christos Zampounis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If there is one nightmare for every writer who writes a book, for every painter who paints a painting, or for an actor who performs in a play, it is none other than public indifference. The same applies to most other categories of professions that live and breathe for the recognition of their contemporaries, the royal family of England not excluded.<\/p>\n<p>I read the reactions and reviews, here and there in the Atlantic \u2013 the most documented is probably that of \u201cTown &amp; Country\u201d \u2013 and I realize that whatever the position is towards the 5th cycle of the TV series \u201cThe Crown\u201d, that the interest remains unabated. Agreed, this particular cycle unfolds in a period (1991-1997) full of scandals and a year that the Queen herself called an annus horribilis (a disastrous year). Who doesn\u2019t remember the Charles-Diana war through interviews and books? Who doesn\u2019t remember the topless Duchess of York being groped by a man who wasn\u2019t her husband? Princess Anne\u2019s divorce in a family whose vocabulary starting with D (Divorce) was unthinkable? The fire at Windsor Tower, or Dodi, the son of the Egyptian tycoon and owner of \u201cHarrods\u201d Mohamed Al Fayed, whose paparazzi hunt took him and his lover the Princess of Wales to their deaths?<\/p>\n<p>Royalists may rightly cringe at certain dialogues and situations, such as the contrived dialogue between Charles and Prime Minister John Major, which the latter was quick to categorically deny and referred to the then heir apparent expectation to replace his mother. The regents will have multiple opportunities to load their quiver with arrows against the antiquated and useless institution. \u201cDe gustibus et de coloribus non disputam est\u201d. \u201cAt each one\u2019s taste\u201d. Hundreds of millions of Netflix subscribers will put back on the hard drive of their minds a family and an institution that, if nothing else, continues to fascinate. And televised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Christos Zampounis If there is one nightmare for every writer who writes a book, for every painter who paints a painting, or for an actor who performs in a play, it is none other than public indifference. The same applies to most other categories of professions that live and breathe for the recognition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":206244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}