![]() After watching the stories of Princesses Diana and Margaret this season, I am even more in awe of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s decision to leave their senior royal roles. Time and time again, whenever she’s offered the opportunity to take control of her life (marrying Group Captain Peter Townsend, or, in “The Hereditary Principle,” converting to Catholicism), she can never go through with it, because it means relinquishing her title – thus allowing the toxicity cycle to continue. What I do know about Margaret, though, is that she always returns to the source of her misery. ![]() Now, I know I have no right to make any sort of diagnosis since my therapy credentials extend to multiple viewings of all four seasons of The Crown. But the real tragedy of Margaret’s story is how she seems to suffer from a kind of Stockholm Syndrome. We learn about yet another royal family secret in this episode, as well as delve deeper into Margaret’s depression – something that’s managed to get even worse since she ended her destructive marriage to Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1978. She is tasked with not just capturing the princess’ aimless existence, but as she’s been doing all season long, positioning Margaret as the only royal confident enough to call bullshit on her family’s atrocious behavior. “The Hereditary Principle” is the first and only Margaret-centric episode of season four, and Helena Bonham Carter makes up for her reduced screen time brilliantly. It also means, in case you haven’t noticed this season, that Princess Margaret has been relegated even further to the periphery – of both her family and the Netflix series. As The Crown inches closer toward the 21st century, it’s inevitable that the focus will shift onto Queen Elizabeth’s children.
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