It’s a wakeup call for Philip, who had placed all his spiritual eggs in the basket of human achievement. Even the greatest humans are fragile, mortal creatures. Every human gets colds. They all disappoint. They all die. They can’t carry the burden of ultimate meaning or existential justification. They are dust, and to dust—or should we say “moondust”—they will return. Elizabeth responds by hiring a new, younger dean to breathe fresh life into the Windsor Castle church. Yet Dean Robin Woods (Tim McMullan) fails to impress Philip with his proposal to create a retreat center where discouraged, mid-career priests can recharge by talking and thinking. “You don’t raise your game by talking or thinking,” Philip harrumphs. “You raise your game through action.” This is another dynamic of what undermines faith in our secular age . Church feels superfluous. But again, this quality turns out to be an asset. For insofar as the church refuses to justify itself in terms of immediate pragmatism or usefulness—but insists on worshiping the eternal God, preaching a timeless gospel, fostering long obedience, and steadfastly loving neighbors—it persists as an outpost of lasting relevance in a world of ever-shifting concerns. Frailty and Faith Higgins, Charlotte (7 September 2009). "Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019 . Retrieved 8 October 2019.

And yet when Philip eventually meets Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins in person, his hallowed esteem crumbles. Turns out they are rather vanilla and uninspiring: pale-faced men with colds and little capacity for thoughtful conversation. Ironically, they are more impressed with Philip and his royal life than he is with them. One of Robin Woods’s sons became close friends with Prince Charles after Woods chose Trinity College for Charles’s education. BettmannNetflix's The Crown films the Aberfan disaster". BBC. 26 September 2018. Archived from the original on 26 September 2018 . Retrieved 27 September 2018. Ali, Lorraine (4 November 2019). "Review: 'The Crown' shines brighter than ever in Season 3". The Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 5 November 2019 . Retrieved 5 November 2019. a b Kinane, Ruth (23 October 2018). "The Crown casts Call the Midwife actress Emerald Fennell as Camilla Parker Bowles". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 23 October 2018 . Retrieved 24 October 2018. After he was caught, Blunt exchanged information and names for immunity from prosecution. Two of the people he named as spies died by suicide after being questioned, which led MI6 to end the investigation instead of risking further attention to the case. Blunt continued to work in the palace until 1972 and was publicly exposed as a spy in 1979.

The timeframe of Woods's posting as Dean of Windsor around the time of the Apollo 11 spaceflight and lunar landing in July 1969 is inaccurate, as he had taken the role in 1962. [55] [44] Prince William of Gloucester had also died five years before the Queen's Silver Jubilee. [44] The coal tip collapse at Aberfan was a tragedy that took the lives of 28 adults and 116 children in October 1966.It’s sweet how she so obviously knows him better than he knows himself. Right before his meeting with the astronauts, the queen stares at Philip with obvious concern, like she’s not quite certain how he’s going to react to anything. I love that Philip admits that his new religious faith is basically the moon and the space race. He at least knows himself! And here is another reason why Christian faith endures in a secular age. It embraces suffering, but with hope. It worships a God whose glory is the shame of a bloody cross—a God who can relate to us in our darkest pain, but who conquered the grave. When our tireless strivings fail us, as they inevitably will, Jesus says “Come . . . I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28). When we reach the end of our rope and our weakness wins, Jesus says, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Cor. 12:9).

Prince Charles did visit the Duke of Windsor in Paris in 1972, [52] although the depiction of the letters concerning his affections for Camilla was criticised: the Prince and Camilla had met, but were not intimately close during the Duke's lifetime. [53] [43] The Queen did visit the Duke ten days before his death, but this had been long-planned and not requested at short notice. [43] Simpson was not with the Duke when he died. [44] [54] Philip’s feelings of failure are exacerbated when Windsor Castle’s new in-house bishop, Dean Robin Woods (Tim McMullan), arrives with plans to create a religious academy for “personal and spiritual growth” — read: he wants to treat burnt-out clergymen — and ropes a very unwitting Duke of Edinburgh into one of their group-therapy sessions. (This “academy” would become St. George’s House, which in reality was co-founded by Prince Philip and Dean Woods three years before the events of “Moondust.”) The episode also conflates Princess Margaret's overdose on sleeping pills with the total collapse of her marriage to Lord Snowdon and being abandoned by Roddy. Margaret did overdose on sleeping pills, but it was after Roddy traveled to Turkey without her and didn't coincide with her divorce from Lord Snowdon in 1978 or with the 1977 Jubilee.Queen Elizabeth II and Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten on the Isle of Wight in 1965, three years before the alleged coup. Credit: Getty Images I waited by the door and round the corner came the Queen, then with auburn hair, in a blue coat, all alone other than with four-year-old Prince Edward, held by the hand. Foussaines, Chloe (29 November 2019). "The Duke of Windsor Did Die in Exile—Not Unlike The Crown's Version of Events". Town and Country. Archived from the original on 6 December 2019 . Retrieved 5 December 2019.

The Society of Leadership Fellows was established in 2016 to recognise the 50th anniversary of the founding of St George's House [14] In popular media [ edit ] After the war, he was given his first benefice as Vicar of South Wigston, Leicester, in 1946, then in 1951 went to Malaya as Archdeacon of Singapore and Vicar of St Andrew's Cathedral. In 1958 he returned to Philip’s midlife crisis continues; the next day he carries out his royal duties. While on a plane, he looks at the moon and asks the pilot if he can take control. He irrationally increases altitude despite the pilot’s warnings. He takes in the view with the moon right in front of him. Prince Charles’s 1969 investiture as the Prince of Wales. Anwar Hussein // Getty Images He became Prince Philip's friend while they were founding St. George's House. In 1966 The Duke of Edinburgh and the then Dean of Windsor, Robin Woods, set up St George’s House, a consultation centre within the Castle walls just to the north of St George’s Chapel. St George’s House is part of the College of St George. Following its setting up, Prince Philip continued to play a leading part in life of St George’s House as a member of the Council, by attendance at an annual lecture and by continued and frequent interest in its work.It seems like Philip’s wrinkles are much more emphasized than we’ve seen previously. This may be because we’re getting tighter shots on his face as he' focuses on the space mission, but the show also definitely uses makeup to subtly age the actors throughout the season. They definitely look older and look their character’s age, which supports the decision to replace the Season 1 and 2 actors with older actors for season 3. I feel like if Claire Foy had continued to act as the Queen, you’d have an “aging” look similar to how Clare and Jamie look in Season 3 of Outlander, after supposedly 20 years have passed. They both look older then they did, but they’re also the youngest looking 40-somethings I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s just hard to make really young actors look like they’re entering middle age.