The Crown (TV Series)

Matrimonium (2017)

Will Keen: Michael Adeane

Quotes 

• Tommy Lascelles : I hope Your Majesty understands the context in which this discreet reconnaissance work was done and that it in no way represents a prurient, moralistic or censorious position. Mr. Armstrong-Jones is perfectly entitled in his private life to make those choices he wishes, indeed, to live as he wishes.

  [Michael clears throat] 

  Tommy Lascelles : However, as with a great many artists, the, uh, conventional approach to life doesn't appear to fit. It seems that what makes his work notable is his willingness, his appetite, to break barriers and conventions, as he pushes his medium, photography, I believe, to its boundaries, and, um,

  [clears throat] 

  Tommy Lascelles : as in art, so, it would appear, in life.

  Queen Elizabeth II : I see.

  Tommy Lascelles : [sighs]  The narrow path, the straight, Christian path, is not to his taste. To the best of our knowledge...

  [unlocks briefcase] 

  Tommy Lascelles : ... he is currently conducting no fewer than three other intimate relationships.

  Queen Elizabeth II : What? With whom?

  Tommy Lascelles : With a Miss Jacqui Chan, an Oriental dancer and singer. With Gina Ward, an actress. And with a Miss Robin Banks, his former assistant.

  Michael Adeane : These, we should add...

  Tommy Lascelles : Are just the natural ones.

  Queen Elizabeth II : What?

  Tommy Lascelles : There is good reason to suspect that Mr. Armstrong-Jones has a taste for members of his own sex and that his close friendship with his proposed best man, Mr. Jeremy Fry, is...

  Queen Elizabeth II : Yes.

  Tommy Lascelles : ...in fact...

  Queen Elizabeth II : All right, Tommy.

  Michael Adeane : Not to mention his wife.

  Queen Elizabeth II : Please.

  Tommy Lascelles : Camilla. Formerly Grinling. An erstwhile girlfriend of Armstrong-Jones.

  Michael Adeane : Who is now expecting, herself.

  Queen Elizabeth II : Do you have a photograph of her?

  Tommy Lascelles : We do. Thank you, Michael.

  [exhales] 

  Tommy Lascelles : [Elizabeth gasps]