Matrimonium
Princess Margaret is going to the chapel and she’s gonna get maaaaried…except this is Margaret and she can’t do things the easy way, can she?
She cannot. Which is great for us because it makes such good TV! When she finds out that original, one-true-love Peter Townsend, is getting hitched, she wants to beat him with a marriage announcement of her own. She finds a willing Alter-Partner (who has his some less than admirable reasons for wanting to marry her) but her sister’s reproductive properties leave Margaret flat on her face long before the finish line. (Spoiler alert, in real life he beat her to marriage by over a year but we don’t get too hung up on timelines over here.)
Here’s some background music from this episode. This site has ALL the episodes’ music curated quite nicely: TuneFind.
Gazelli Art House is a real place and that view is pretty accurate (for the time.) Wedding planning? This place is pretty historic, Gretna Green, Scotland.
We talked about Twilight Sleep (Cafe Mom article for more) and came up with several reasons why this (spoiler alert) ill fated marriage may have happened. Here’s one version from the Daily Mail.
Finally, this is so brilliant and the video so great at showing how it works we’ll give them a little free advertising here.
Photo credit: Netflix; Still Clips, The History Chicks via Netflix