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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Wears a green dress as he kisses her on his way out the door and a green striped shirt at breakfast with her family. In the Buckingham palace scenes, they spend a lot of time in one particular green room. There’s even a green lighting over some of the scenes; the one that stands out most is when Harold Wilson is taking off his coal-dust covered shoes at the end of the day and looking absolutely defeated. The amount of green in this episode is just absolutely bonkers; I was half expecting to hear some proto-environmentalism come up to tie more into the “green.” Of course, the most devastating use of green comes during the funeral, in the green cloth (?) lining the huge grave, filled with the coffins of 81 children. The crowd at the funeral is still surrounded by those giant green hills all around them (how many of them are coal tips vs hills? It’s so unnerving not to know). There are also lots of brown costumes in this episode. Tony, Margaret, the Queen, and Harold Wilson all prominently wear brown. This may be referring to the brown coffins against those bright green cloth, or may just indicate sadness.I’d like to note that this is the second time in the series that junior secretary Martin Charteris is shown expressing an opinion that, while not in keeping with palace tradition, accurately predicts the reaction of the people and the press. When senior private secretary Michael Adeane doesn’t take Martin’s advice in the season 2 episode “Marionettes,” the Queen ends up giving a very tone-deaf, patronizing speech which opens her to a ton of criticism. When the queen and Michael don’t listen to Martin’s timid suggestion that she visit Aberfan herself, it opens her up to criticism about not caring about her people. This all just indicates that Martin is the real down to earth secretary with actual insight here and definitely should have been made senior secretary as Elizabeth wanted in the season 1 episode “Scientia Potentia Est,” tradition be damned. Continuity Note: It looks like Michael Adeane got to grow back his mustache after a while. Elizabeth asked him to shave it off in the Season 2 episode “Lisbon” to satisfy Prince Philip, who was complaining about all the “mustaches” ordering him around. This seems fair, since the events of “Aberfan” take place in 1966 and the events of “Lisbon” take place in 1957. You can’t ban a man’s facial hair for years at a time! Jason Watkins as Prime Minister Harold Wilson in The Crown (Netflix) Ben Daniels as Tony Armstrong Jones in The Crown (Netflix) There’s a horribly sad contrast in the two scenes in the episode in which someone yells for those around him to be quiet. This first happens as the accident is just beginning, when a worker at the mine yells for the others to be quiet, as he can hear the tip start to collapse and race toward the village. The
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