Roseanna

I agree. As even the show didn't present Dodi as Diana's end game, why on earth did bother to to get it many episodes compared with the Pakistanian doctor and one earlier lover? Not to speak of Diana and Charles who were given one good moment during their Australian tour which made Diana's continuening love seem really odd.

Henry VIII didn't actually divorce from Katherine of Aragon nor Anne Boleyn, both marriages were annulled. That didn't make Mary and Elizabeth bastards, in normal cases they would have been legimate children because they were conceived "in good faith", i.e. when their parents believe to be married to each other. If Katherine had accepted the annulment, Mary would probably retainded her place in succession. The result of Katherine's subborn fight was that Henry wanted no competitor with his children with Anne and later, because of Anne's supposed betrayal, his children with Jane. In later case, before Edward was born, Henry has no successor over a year, as also Fitzroy died. After Katherine and Anne's miscarriages, it's no wonder that Henry wanted all his three children in succession order, although he didn't make his daughters legitime. Maybe if his sister Mary's son had lived, he would have chosen otherwise (or married him to Elizabeth). As for Edward, his first draft of succession named "the heirs male of Lady Jane" which he only in the knowledge of immediate death changed "the Lady Jane and her heirs male". So it seems tha Edward regarded women as inferior and therefore unfit to rule.

Well, they looked older than people in the same age today, they had bad teath, or missing teeth, and they could have smallbox scars, decent women didn't smile so that teeth appeared (if a woman does that in an old painting, she is a prostitute).

Although planning and arranging the monarch's funeral is laborious, the work is much helped by the funerals of former monarchs, just like coronations. Also irl Elizabeth could choose only such details as music and flowers. Instead, Philip had much more freedom to plan his funeral.

Workers were poor, not layers - they belonged to the middle class and could support a family quite comfortably. The only risk to marry a man of a good profession but without a fortune was that a husband could died young. But as we have seen, a rich man good speculate and loose his fortune. The best way to guarantee safety to a woman was a good education and a profession of her own. That was quite possible in the 1880ies. Otherwise, a woman could get a fate like Agnes: sell her body to a man she didn't like.

In short, Agnes is a prejudiced snob. She doesn't evaluate people as individuals on the basis of their character and work, but on the basis of outer qualities of birth they can't influenced on.

I feel just the opposite - I am tired of Harry irl after hearing too much of him irl. Although William's storyline was boring, at least there was one, i.e. accepting his role and meeting his future wife.

I agree with SnapHappy: there are situations where confessions are wrong - a person who had done must just carry the guilt, not transfer the burden to the one she has wronged. And if we believe that the husband afterwards told the truth, the sister actually lied - they didn't have sex, just kissing and "a tender moment". That makes one suspect that the sister's motive was to make sure that Jessie wouldn't forgive her husband or otherwise make her miserable. Either she in love with her brother-in-love and wants him to herself or she is jealous or envious towards Jessie or wants to revenge on her for some matter.

Isn't the whole idea of this show is that people don't "get over with" the past? While living for years in uncertainty about the fate of the loved one and after that learning that he/she was murdered is a lot worse than a random accident, even the latter rises existential questions and takes away one's own feeling of security. Also, if Sunny had lost his parent, child or spouse, people would undertand and sympathize with his grief better. Friendship isn't valued nowadays as it should be. As a friend and colleague Cassie was Sunny's "second half". Finally, it's IMO not the same thing to do something out of duty (because Sal "deserves" it) than to do it out of heart. Although you say that you don't undestand Sunny, you do: you made a perfect description of Sunny's conflicted feelings that made him make the decision he made, or rather he transferred the decision to Sal. But actually she did earlier just the same: she told only about the danger miscarriange without expressly saying "come home, I need you". As he didn't welcome pregnancy, I am not sure if he would have been any help to Sal as, however much empathy he would show her, he wouldn't (even if he wouldn't say it) be really sorry about losing the baby. Her mum could probably give her best possible support under the circumstances. Could Sunny really work as an police officer if he put his fiancee first? That said, the situation isn't normal now as Sunny is grieving for Cassie. Also, dating is elementally different than living together, not to speak of raising kids. And as others have said, Sunny has already kids, Sal doesn't.

No, it was natural. First, there was no reason to doubt that after their husbands had left, the ex-wives drank and talked together in the house until 3 a.m. in the house together. Unlike men, they had no bond that would have made them to lie for each other. Second, men had a motive for that kind of crime, but women didn't. Third, even if a woman had strength to strangle the offer, she certainly had no means to carry the body to London and bury it there. Fourth, because the marriages had been broken, the men had no reason protect their ex-wife after the body was found and they were interrogated. Five, if a wife had followed her husband and killed a girl he had sex with and he had helped to bury the body and then kept silent with it, the plot would be too much like the Season 1.

@JudyObscure wrote in Willsmania: Actually Charles replied in public, and Diana's Panorama-interview happened after separation but before divorce. Timetimetable: 1992: Diana: her true story by Andrew Morton, source Diana but she denies it August 1992: Squidgate published (Diana and James Gilbert) November 1992: Camillagate published (Charles and Camilla) December 1992: separation announced by PM June 1994: Charles interviewed by James Dimbleby in TV 1994: The Prince of Wales by James Dimbleby published 1994: Princess in love by Anna Pasternark about Diana and James Hewitt's affair, source Hewitt November 1994: Diana interviewed by Martin Bashir December 199: the Queen writes to Charles and Diana Augut 1995: legal divorce

Actually, Charles replied, but nothing good came of revelations both made. More in the history section.

I doubt Tommy ever had an ability to make "right choices" and lead a normal life. Maybe his brain was damaged already at birth by his addict mother and certainly she damaged him during childhood (that's why he so hated that his son was raised by an old woman). On the other hand, Becky was raised by Catherine and Richard. So why did she chose a man like Tommy (she actually liked him, her brother claimed in the firts season).

I just can't understand aghast. Catherine never gave Tommy a chance with Ryan? Tommy wasn't as bad as she believed? I absolutely agree with gesundheit. Already in the first season we saw Tommy rape Ann, kill several people (including his two buddies) and he would have killed his own son, by burning him alive no less, if Catherine had prevented him. In the first season Clare talked that Tommy maybe would have some legal rights as a biological father. I can't understand and accept that kind of law. Biology doesn't make one a parent, except nominally.

It wasn't not long that a second wedding, or any wedding of middle-aged couple for that matter, used to be small and quiet. If one has had a big wedding, as both Charles and Camilla had with their respective spouses, why would one want to repeat it? After all, in a private ceremony the couple can concentrate wholly on each other without needing to think about the public and TV.

Mr Fortune showed himself skirtless and made an initiative to the kiss although it seemed to be consensual. Just after situation where they had just avoided risk of assault, torture, rape and death, touching another person was a natural reaction, although a kiss is of course different than a hug. If Mr Fortune hadn't earlier offered a stong drink to Peggy and didn't later apologize of his behavior, I would say much ado about a trivial thing. Generally speaking, when a woman was kissed by a man she liked but she wasn't interested in, she was in a difficult situation: how to fend off a man without hurting his feelings.

Excuse me, do you mean that Bertha is gooddess as she can order the sun to rise in the west, whereas to us poor mortals it rises in the east? The new Metropolitan Opera House seems to have opened on October 22, 1883. Do anybody know when exactly the sun rose?

I think it was just the opposite. The British really can get characters clothes tell about their salaries, taste and mood instead of dressing them to look good. I think her death was in tune with general themes of the show: that one mistake can have tragic consequences to many. People often forget that every farewell can be last the one and irl Cassie's father wouldn't have got a voicemeal from his daughter to comfort him.

The earlier seasons weren't just about Elizabeth but about the larger issues, thus uniting personal and general. That was completely lost and that's why the last seasons feel so trivial.

Like others here have said, we don't know enough about Jenny to know about her motives. Yet, when she first met Cassie, she didn't behave at all well toward her, and I suspect that that was one strong reason why Cassie began to dislike her. When Cassie asked if she had children, she answered no and explained that she was too much work-oriented and she thought that a mother should be present. Then she said that we, meaning she and Cassie's dad, didn't mind that Cassie was two hours late because of her work, but what would Cassie's sons have thought about it? Jenny has no right to criticize Cassie as a mother - it was rude and double so when she knew nothing about the matter. With any sense she should have realized how hard it was to a working widow to raise two sons and respect her for that and for her career. In this scene Jenny and Cassie's father behaved like two teenagers who couldn't keep their hands off each other.

That relatives don't like each other isn't enough for drama. A love story needs psychological obstacles and there isn't a single one.

There is much truth IMO in the saying that if the marriage is sound and strong, an outsider can't wreck it. On the other hand, then guilt is put on the spouse's door who has been cheated on. This may be in some cases appropriate. But there are also some people who are unable to be faithful because of their own problems. I don't think it's fair to say Peggy consciously aimed to have an affair with Mr Fortune. Rather, she would say to herself that nothing more would happen and they could meet in the work and she would bask in his admiration. I can't imagine Peggy would go to a hotel room with him. Yet, there was a possibility (f,g. alone in the office) and the one who would be hurt most would be Peggy. Whatever hurt feelings her husband's cheating could have caused to Mrs Fortune if she ever learned of it, her marriage and her home were safe. He would never leave her for another woman as it would have ruined his reputation as an editor. Sometimes love can be so strong that it matters more than all else, as in the case of Sylvia Chamberlain (S1). Luckily his lover and future husband was rich enough to support two families but she had still to pay the price by being ostrakized by the society.

It was lazy writing. While Russell party could last until daybreak, they either had a supper that lasted for several hours or, unlike Marian said, two meals. And Agnes and Ada wouldn't certainly wait for Marian longer than perhaps until 2 or 3. New York doesn't lay so in the north that there would have been light in the night.

How has Agnes sacrificed her happiness? I don't recall she had a suitor she loved but who she refused because he was too poor. She married a rich man chiefly for herself, not because of her sister. During two seasons Agnes has treated Ada very poorly, belittling her and making fun of her. Instead, Ada has never answered in kind to Agnes. She has even defended her sister to Marian by explaining her sister's behavior with her hard marriage. As a big sister Agnes sees herself still superior, but she never learned about Marian's elopment plan, unlike Ada.

Well, the public needed someone to blame and the tabloids had a skill to direct the public anger from them to the BRF. Diana was no ordinary divorcee: even if she was no more a member of BRF, she was still the mother to the future king and if she were given a state funeral, it could only be arranged by the BRF. Spencers would have arranged a small and private funeral. Mr Blair had nothing to do with the matter but give a statement.