Let’s just say 2017 was the year of the powerful woman.
And, as reflection tells us, those positions may have had a profound effect upon their relationship.
C’mon, we all know royals (whether actual royalty or the US equivalent) can bea little weird.
Let’s just say thatthey don’t exactly hit it off.
president and the first lady.
Queen Elizabeth’s response to this situation?
“They’ve all gone mad.”
Yes, certain details depicted inThe Crown, according toThe Washington Post, are not real.
“The queen’s resentment was real,” Kitty Kelley wrote inThe Royals(viaThe Washington Post).
Eventually Jackie Kennedy did get her way, and her sister and brother-in-law got their dinner invites.
Jackie was apparently particularly vexed by the absence of the Princesses Margaret and Marina.
What did Jackie really say about the Queen?
As it turns out,The Crowncreator and writerPeter Morganwasn’t quite as hyperbolic as you’d expect.
Philip was nice, but nervous.
One felt absolutely no relationship between them.
The queen was human only once."
It wasn’t all bad, though.
Were prescription drugs involved?
Dr. Jacobson gained notoriety for treating his high profile celebrity clients with amphetamine injections.
AstheNew York Postreported onDr.
Jacobson’s “secret vitamin formula” indeed contained what we now know to be methamphetamine.
In reality the two women wouldn’t meet againuntil March 1962.
What the episode doesn’t highlight is that the jealousy may have actually gone both ways in real life.
As Vidal related toDemocracy Now:
“We all called her Jackie.
Nobody called her ‘Jacqueline.’
Because it rhymes with ‘queen’?'
Oh, those girls.”
John F. Kennedy’s funeralwas attended by Prince Philip, but not Queen Elizabeth.
