The Crown | King Edward playing the bagpipes and crying
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- Опубліковано 14 лют 2017
- The crown, episode 5.
- I come in here for a few moments every day to meditate and remember.
- Goodness.
- Bagpipes, too? - Yes, I play.
- When he gets homesick.
song name: "Flowers of the Forest"
How I sum up this scene:
-He’s mourning the death of his brother.
-jealousy towards his Queen Elizabeth and something he will never have.
-Essentially exiled from his own country, this longing for it.
-married the right woman in the wrong life.
-realizing how utterly and truly alone he is with his deepest feelings.
-the sun setting on the garden to me signs an end of an era, the british empire and monarchy are changing.
Beautiful
He’s playing to the West as well, which is the general direction to England from France. Toooons of symbolism in this scene and not a single word was spoken.
"married the right woman in the wrong life"
indeed. painful to think about that.
Very well put especially the last point
Don't forget about them being Nazi sympathizers.
He was disgusting
When he plays his bagpipe...I can feel his sorrow and homesickness. Nothing compares to missing one’s motherland...
Dan Wilde lol ok baby
more like he regretted his decision and here's where it's truthful. with everyone he's lying but in private he regrets his decision
What if will happen to Harry soon?
"Motherland" my ass!
@@iagoporto5522 🙄
Such a powerful scene, so much anger, self pity, anguish, regrets, weakness. So many emotions in one scene! Brilliance
Nice photo mate
Great actor
Weakness! Such a strong theme in this whole series
The art of cinematography. I love shows and movies like this. I wish I could find more.
He should have passed on that woman.
He did not care about the throne anymore, he just misses his brother and his hometown.
He only cares about RECLAIMING THE BIRTHRIGHT from those damned Syndicalists
Kaiserreich Reference...
SYNDIES GET OUT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Kezia no seems more like he’s bitter that he didn’t get to have his cake and eat it to
He liked the idea of being the King and being crowned but not the actual duty part.
I love how the actor who plays King Edward is in both The Crown and Victoria.
Abby Bonds He also played Prince Charles in the 2006 film The Queen.
Alex Jennings
And Eileen Atkins played Mary of Teck in both The Crown and Bertie and Elisabeth
He also played a king in Victoria.
Abby Bonds He also played the Butler in the film version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
such a strong scene
drkpua
The director knows their stuff. In this scene, Edward is playing 'Flowers of the Forest', a tune treated by pipers with great reverence, and only ever played in order to honour the dead. (See the foreshadowing?) Later on, when King George dies, just as he stops slumbering, and passes away, the sovreign's piper (Who's job it normally is to play the pipes in the garden to wake the monarch), strikes up with 'Hector the Hero', a tune written in mourning after the tragic death of a Scottish general.
I'm a fellow piper. I like the way that even though the actor isn't actually playing, the sound recording used is a simple arrangement (without advanced embellishments) that would match a "hobbyist" piper, as the character was portrayed. I have no idea how advanced the real Duke of Winsor was on pipes.
@@davidhumphreys3028 It sounds like this may have been generated on a keyboard using samples, hence the lack of any embellishments at all. I think it's fine because in-tune bagpipes sound good enough to a general audience. However, what makes me cringe personally is how the actor rocks his hips back and forth to indicate he is playing music. And then in the close-up the drones are just sadly sagging on his arm. I'm guessing the director didn't like the way his face looked when he was actually inflating the bag. I might be overcritical though--overall I think it's a dignified portrayal that does justice to the man and the instrument.
@@FoxboroPiper definitely a keyborad-generated sound
As a piper also it seems when an actor tries to carry off playing the pipes it must be quite difficult you can always tell somethings not quite right..
The "tragic" death was by suicide, after he had been hounded and vilified for being homosexual. The stories behind these tunes should be considered when we play them, not just nice tunes. One of my favourite tunes is The Battle of the Somme, quite a jolly tune considering the slaughter that it commemorates.
"The things we do for love."
- Jaime lannister
Courage the cowardly dog
10cc
Price was too high for her love.By all accounts historically it wasnt a happy marriage.When u have to pay so dearly to be married u will resent your partner if it isnt as u expected it to be.i dont know how Wallace accomplished !t
i have made better decisions when i was drunk than being in love
Beautiful, powerful scene. Initially, he is almost mocking the old traditions. And then it's like something hit him. 'She.. becomes a goddess'. In the end, feeling homesick, missing country, family, crying with his bagpipes while crying into the horizon. Goosebumps. This is one of my favorite moments in the show.
His acting in that scene was incredible. Anger, regret, love of country, all in one shot
I can't decide if he's a good or a bad person. The acting is just perfect😭
Edit: OK, he was definitely a bad person. You guys convinced me 😊
He's complicated, but he was a Nazi sympathizer and he chose to abandon his people by giving up the throne to marry an American divorcee, which showed he had no respect for the traditions of the Church of England, of which he would have been Supreme Governor of. Considering what the Luftwaffe bombing raids did to Great Britain, the fact he sympathized with the Nazi cause and Hitler's vision for Germany made his mistakes unforgivable. It was totally justified that the other members of the House of Windsor disowned him.
Edward was not an evil man (Nazi sympathies aside) but he was a weak man who was simply never cut out to be king (he had zero work ethic and always put his own desires above everything else). He basically was a boy who never grew up (folks from Prime Minster Baldwin to his own personal secretary describe him as a permanent adolescent).
ok human being would have been an awful King. Not sure he would have stood up in 1940 when Britain needed certainty the most. I doubt Edward sends for Churchill as PM>
Harry isn't likely to inherit the throne. William's children all come before Harry in the line of succession.
Edward wasnt a nazi sympathizer. He met with nazis, it isnt the same thing. We have the knowledge of everything that happened in Hitler's Germany in hindsight.. Edward didnt know about the warcrimes etc... Socialism was the rage int he 30s. Look at Italy, France, Germany, Argentina...etc. Theres a musical about Eva Peron who was far far far far far far far less innocent than Wallis and Edward. They are only seen as villains today because people continue to belive what they heard from those in power at the time. If the royal family hadn't ostracized them, they wouldn't have been unpopular in modern culture. There are photos of them with nazis...so they are automatically war criminals and horrible people. Ok. The UK had its own well known socialists. Daphne Guiness is related to Lady Diana Moseley isnt she?
No instrument carries emotion as strongly as the bagpipes. So full of pride, sadness and haunting beauty. Edward is the king we never had. So much of history that will never be written. And he knows his abdication is what killed his brother. So in his traditional way. He is mourning the death of his beloved little brother and welcoming the rise of the new Queen.
Seeing him cry was so heartbreaking..
I feel the worst for Wallis because she knows and comprehends that if it wasn't for her, her husband wouldn't be somber and saddened over losing his brother, and being alienated from his family and country.
Wallis never cared for Edward the man, she wanted to marry a King, the country. She always resented him for choosing something as fickle as love over power for he gave up HER life, not his.
@@khanyikuzwayo they stayed together for the rest of his life, and after edward death, she began to go insane. She loved him
@@franciscomm7675 Actual all u guys are wrong simple fact wallis letters showed up and now its all out in the open look it up on here Wallis Simpson Letters then the truth came out...I learned alot watching that
@@franciscomm7675 Nope. As explained here, nypost.com/2018/02/10/wallis-simpsons-marriage-to-edward-viii-was-shockingly-miserable/: Though Wallis and Edward remained married for the duration of their lives, privately their union deteriorated. Having been cut off from the royal family, Wallis (who received death threats in the mail and was harassed in public) and Edward were typically short on money, something that women of the day could not tolerate. Said one: “They will have no country and he no job. Can any love exist or be nourished on this slender fare?” What wasn’t entirely clear to outsiders was that Wallis was not interested in nourishing any such affection with her husband.
@Kezia She never learned to play the pipes
I also believe he is playing this for his mother. Flowers of the forest is a song of mourning. It’s horrifically sad, and as conflicted as you feel for him you can’t help but empathise with his sorrow.
He never got to say goodbye to his brother.
Edward was raised believing he was entitled to the crown. Only after 1 year, he gave it all up for Wallis Simpson. He never really wanted the responsibility that came with the titles and salary. He took it all granted. Up until his death, he truly believed he was entitled to it all. He wasn’t very supportive of his niece, at least not for an uncle.
I know how frustrating it can be when one is alienated from family, and over love it is unfair and cruel but alas so is the world
The guy was a Nazi sympathizer and a bit of a fuckwad, he made his choice and he's hardly to be sympathized with.
Perhaps, but I can't help but feel sorry for him.
Always easy for others to pass judgment. How many men/women over time have had to make such a choice, lose, family.friends w.e over the most joyful and yet painful feeling "love"
Rubbish. They'd have done the same thing to Princess Margaret and Group Captain Peter Townsend had they decided to be together. No establishment or people have the right to keep people apart
+RFKFANTS67 Yeah... real hard choice there, to NOT be a Nazi sympathizer when you are the King of Britain... get real, bud.
King Edward? He lost that title when he abdicated. He's the Duke of Winsor in this scene.
Posterity would still refer to him as King Edward.
@@rarelysatisfied2916 he would only be refered to as King Edward when referring to the time he was King. Once he abdicated he was no longer a king. When he chose to give up the role and its responsibilities, he gave up the title. There cannot be two kings at the same time. From that point on he was the Duke of Winsor.
Given that this scene, specifically, is the coronation of his niece, calling him King Edward is most definitely incorrect.
@@kincaidwolf5184 this is true-ish. His abdication changed a lot of things and when King George VI gave him the title of Duke of Winsor he allowed the Duke to be styled as an HRH. At that point the former king did not revert to being Prince David and was most definitely no longer the Prince of Wales as he had been for most of his life. So was he still a Royal Highness? These were questions they were asking in 1936. The reason they gave him the title of Duke of Winsor was specifically to stop any use of previous Royal titles. And though he was allowed to be styled as HRH, that was not a given, either. And they were VERY specific that Wallis Simpson would NOT be given that style.
However, the title is "King Edward plays bagpipes..." and he was no longer a king.
@@stephanieellis5399 mate, fucking use google. His wiki page and any books on him refers to him as king. You think Pope Benedict is no longer considered a pope because he abdicated?
@@rarelysatisfied2916 I have. I have read quite a bit about the abdication and Royal history in general and I've watched a lot of documentaries about the same. His wiki page clearly say he "was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication on 11 December of that year."
Although some people may have continued to refer to him as King Edward, that was not his title. In abdicating he GAVE IT UP. Even though we might refer to Barack Obama as President, or Stephen Harper and Tony Blair as Prime Minister, officially they are Former President/Prime Ministers. But even that is not a good comparison. There can only be ONE monarch at any one time. Usually this is accomplished by the former one having died. The government and King George VI had to take a very strict approach because there were still those who supported Edward. This was the reason the King created the title of Duke of Winsor. Edward was the first and last holder of that title. In admonishing me to look it up perhaps you could Google "King Edward VIII title after abdication".
Perhaps the best comparison, though, is the Dutch monarchy. Their King is Willem-Alexander who "acceded the throne following his mother's abdication in 2013". She was known as Queen Beatrix during her reign from 30 April 1980 - 30 April 2013. After she abdicated she was no longer queen. She is now, again, Princess Beatrix.
The tune he's playing is Flowers of the Forest, a military lament..
I always find myself coming back to this scene, might I say one of the best scenes in the show. The bagpipe, for me, has always been the most heartwrenching and emotionally potent instrument in the world. And, coupled with the phenomenal acting from Alex Jennings (Emmy worthy as a scene on its own, due to his remarkable talent) - as he cries in utter grief and sorrow while playing 'Flowers of the Forest', a piece which symbolises the passing of the soul from earth into the distance, that is to Heaven - this scene is beyond devastating to watch. Absolutely masterful.
Best scene of the Crown
One of the most affecting and beautiful scenes of the show.
Stuningly powerful. My favourite scene
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In the end Wallis Simpson was precisely the ruthless social climber and heartless woman she was criticised to be
She wasn't even at his deathbed and quickly sought another rich and powerful man in America.
@@qwertyuiopqwerty112 From what I read she was at the Duke's side at the end and she did not hook up with a man in America as she never came back to the USA, she mainly remained at the estate in France, visiting England a few times.
@@qwertyuiopqwerty112 no, she didn’t. She died as a widow and in dementia. Awful end, as for me.
Don't believe everything you read. A lot of the media at the time was against her because "the woman always gets the blame." She told Edward not to abdicate but he did it anyway.
I dunno if its just because I am Scottish and the bagpipes but I was genuinely moved when I saw his tears. Completely unexpected.
I was moved too, as a Scot. People are coming out with all of these explanations but I just see this as a deep pain of mourning. Sometimes the pain is so deep that only music can express it.
What I love about this scene is is shows we ALL have decisions to make in life, unpleasant decisions, good or bad for whatever reasons, the surrounding people, the time etc we make them and we have to learn to live with them. full stop! its powerful.
I swear I cried.
matèlda malèn I did. I totally sympathize with him. The only reason he is mean to his family is because those fuckers pushed him out because of who he loved. He would’ve been a great King.
Me too.
@@jacksonthesyndicalist2771 he was a Nazi sympathizer and called his mother apathetic monster on rhe same night that she asked him to stay by her side. He only chooses to see the side of his family in a way that would justify his current and past actions. Because of him in a way the King died that young from illness from the duties of a King he was supposed to have. The same with elisabeth and her family who she also gave up so many things for the crown.
F A how was he a Nazi sympathizer? Do you have any proof of that? Yeah he was anti war but so were a bunch of people after ww1. Instead of repeating the same bullshit claims you’ve heard you should do some research. He never supported the Nazis during or after the war. Before the war he only liked Hitler to the extent that he would fight communists.
@@jacksonthesyndicalist2771 Look up the Marburg/Windsor files. For crying out loud, Vergangenheit in the Crown detailed exactly the actions which have resulted in him earning such scrutiny, resentment and scornful hatred.
I just learned that he played A Lament: Flower in the Forest. Prince Philip’s funeral brought me here.
Today Charles can be King when he is husband of divorced woman ... what an injustice for Edward. Charles should do the same, abdicate for William.
Welcome to the 21st century
Then there was the working with Hitler to restore himself to throne and allow Hitler to traipse through Europe. He made his bed.
We didn't need a weakling like Edward as king. He would've allowed Hilter to invade England.
At this moment ... He knew that he had become a thing from the past .. And what a painful feeling
This scene made me teary eyed.
The best scene in this series. Loathing, contempt for his family and the institution, possibly regret that he never got to have what his father, his brother, and his niece had all experienced. I almost feel pity for him. I even shed a tear watching this.
Favorite part of the whole series so far. Serious. Chills.
Everybody sees many different meanings of this scene: is he angry that he is not the king anymore? Jealous? Sad? It doesn't matter. Earlier it was mentioned that Edward plays bagpipes when he misses home. And ultimately that is the main theme in this scene - homesickness, knowing he cannot return anytime he likes due to the choices he made in his life... And that makes David sad, and Wallis too - because she understands that she was the reason of it all.
Magnificent episode! And best scene of the entire series! Really well done!!!!
Such a strong and emotional scene , its a scene i can truely indentify with , Since i live with the same feelings for 20 years , Feeling Homesick and waiting for a possibility to go back to my beloved birth country .
The regrets of one's life.
He made those choices.
Jonathan Wood he did indeed and they only show a small piece of the crap he did plus it isn’t like he lived in poverty. He lived a cushy life at taxpayer expense. The same taxpayers he told Hitler to bomb the crap out of.
Sickening; it blew my mind in my first year of Uni when I had to research this. I just couldn't believe he was never prosecuted for a single action of high treason that was committed. People have this funny way of picturing themselves as the victims when they've done deplorable things. I'm no psych major but it seems some attempt at fooling the remnants of their own moral compass into letting them sleep at night.
Jonathan Wood and the British court punished him for loving the wrong person, the cruel bustards.
Yes he did, and England is all the better for it. God save the Queen.
So he can't grieve? Stop gatekeeping for fuck sake
A well directed and executed scene 👌
This Scene hits me, really almost made me cry, I stopped because dad was with me.
i remember 5 years ago when i see this scene nd i fall in love with the show
One of the most powerful scenes I’ve seen seen.
I literally cried when he played the bagpipe.
The Queen is dead. Long live the King
It's the unfortunate reality of bad choices and divided loyalties.
Blue Queen we don’t choose who we love.
Funny how there is one rebel in every generation of the royal family spanning back a century. Albert Victor, Edward, Margaret, Charles, Harry. Wonder which of George, Charlotte and Louis will be the rebel of the new generation.
Def Louis
Charles, a rebel??? I would say Diana as the Princess of Wales.
prolly charlotte
Right before this scene his character was clearly negative for me. Despite leaving everything for love of his life he was portrayed as mean, opportunistic and man of no character. Here at this scene I realized he has still some feelings left in him.
“Playing the bagpipes and crying”. Why does this sound so funny lmao
This is just my belief based on what little I have read and watched regarding Edward. I believe that he loved his wife, and that he thought he could push the issue up to abdication in an attempt to get his way. What he set into motion he could not walk away from in part to his pride which would become underlying regret and hostility to those that he deeply knows had a right to treat him poorly. The series does that part well. The scene where he stands next to the TV reciting every part of the coronation (knowing that he never had his own), and then sitting in his make-shift royal office with it's empty red courier box, really brought up that regret. He's left with his bitter resentment (the name calling in is letters) and his stance regarding his love to his wife.
scifi75 What episode was that
ah I cried with him
It's almost Shakespearean how tragic the Duke of Windsor's story was
came here after prince philip's funeral.. RIP
Sure people would have loved sending him to he'll, if they'd had the opportunity. Well, France had to do it^^In any way, people tend to forget that he didn't just give up his crown, his formal title, but his life task, his identity, his home and family... And my impression is that the - really - poor (!) man never found a way to redefine him like that! Thanks for that strong scene!!
I cried too along. It was such a powerful scene!!
“Llora como una mujer lo que no supiste defender como un hombre” - Sultana Axa 1492 d.c
I really felt his homesickness and sadness in this scene
but alas. you can't help who you love
Washed marvellously with sorrow...
Duke of Windsor, dahling, you did this upon yourself.
Esta escena realmente me entristece.
He really had to endure so much... Giving up what was rightfully his (the crown), losing his brother and mother, being alienated from his family and exiled from his country 😢. But at least Wallis was there for him to the end 💑.
Ira Williams the guy was a Nazi. Are you serious?!
JustMe8497 no he wasn't.
He was not exiled from the country - he chose not to return until HIS conditions were met and only then.
He was not a Nazi in the sense that he was not a member of the Nazi party, but he was an admirer of Adolf Hitler. There is also good evidence that he gave information to the enemy during WW2. In this, he was certainly manipulated by his wife, but there is no reasonable doubt that he traded and colluded with the enemy to secure his Paris property and effects, and it's a matter of record that he consorted with Abwehr agents in Madrid and Portugal. His wife had been the mistress of Count Ciano, Mussolini's foreign minister, and probably of Ribbentrop, when the latter was German ambassador in London. The duke's resistance to returning to Britain after the fall of France in 1940 was at least very highly suspicious. Churchill had to threaten him with court-martial (he was a commissioned officer).
All in all, and not denying his good qualities, he would have been an absolute disaster as a king, and it was fortunate that he insisted on marrying Wallis Simpson. If he had not abdicated over that, he would most likely have destroyed the monarchy by betraying his country, led on by her. It's odd to think, but the present Queen owes her throne to that abdication, in more ways than one. If he hadn't given up the throne, there would quite likely have been no throne for her to inherit.
There were rumors that his wife was cheating on him.
And he did have Nazi sentiments. The nazis even conspired to install him on the monarchy once they conquered great Britain
Poor King Edward I wish I could just hug him
What masterpiece
Oh I love this scene
10/10 beautiful scene
It’s said by many different sources that Edward never wanted to be king and actually just used his inability to marry Wallis as an excuse to shrug off the job, though I do believe he lived to regret it some days.
That's quite the shrug off lol.
Oh that tweed is gorgeous.
This man is perfect as Edward I m on season 2 episodes I love this guy .. No wonder he took love for crown .. Rather romantic n stood for what he believed in unlike Margaret who didn't want to give up the lifestyle for love ..
Alex Jennings makes me fall deeply in love with David... After reading A Kings Story the poor guy was easily influenced by the wrong people but my god wasn't he adorable and charming... I'm still dissapointed in him though.
When A King's Story came out people involved were shocked to see a version of events totally different than what they lived through. In other words he rewrote history to make himself look good.
Tyler Thompson he’s bitter and mean because the British court was cruel to him, if he loved some one else he’d have made a fine king but alas life is full of tragedy.
prince harry's kind of life if he wont do what is right
Brilliant!
Waiting for the inevitable [lofi] [10 HOURS] version of this
Lol
I love Alex Jennings. I get so excited when I see him in historical shows.
Heartwrenching. Hats off if the Duke of Windsor really did play bagpipes. Beautiful, difficult instrument.
I think everyone missed the point. If you think about it, he was declared king but NEVER got his coronation. His dedication and description of the ceremony itself shows you the importance it is. He never took any vows or was held accountable because he never got the divine blessing for being king...had he though, he would be more accountable for what the crown represented...not his own personal wishes.
Great actor
Such a powerful scene and emotional to see! If he was in the times of today he would be King, Back then he had no choice but to abdicate! Times have changed! Privy council should have stepped up back then! But we can't change history!
Alex is a amazing actor
This scene is just so real
This is how I vent my frustrations with life. I do recommend it for anxiety
This scene made me cry for him
In Italy, we use the expressione "ECCHECAZZO!!!", when someone pays for the conseguences of his actions, thinking to be a victim.
Great expression, Italian is a wonderful language 🙂
Whoever was actually playing those pipes was very good.
I believe, but cannot be certain, that the Duke is playing the Scottish lament "The Flowers of The Forest" in memoriam to his dead brother....perhaps not so much in remembrance of but rather as a kind of rapprochement with. I lost my eldest brother a few years ago and I can understand the depths of the Duke's sadness. Like the Duke and His Majesty, my brother and I had grown apart over the years, yet he was and will forever be close in my heart. Regardless of how things turned out in the end for them, the Duke and His Majesty were quite close at one time, all the way up to the abdication it would seem. Alas, the Duke did what he felt he had to do, His Majesty did what he felt he had to do and in the end two brothers who had been very close became distant and estranged out of political necessity. Yet, despite the distance I think they loved each other as only brothers who have shared in each others joys and miseries can love one another, as I believe the Duke's tears attest in this scene. And there's also a small part of me that wonders if perhaps the Duke is lamenting the passing of an era (his era to be precise, for at that point I believe he would have been considered the family's patriarch under normal circumstances), the loss of his friends and family, the gradual extinguishing and dying out of all the old customs and traditions and perhaps he is acknowledging in a way that he knows he too will be passing soon (actually, I think the Duke lived on for another 20 years).
The tune if I'm not mistaken is flowers of the forest....played on sorrow occasions such as funerals or Remembrance Sunday.
Thought of this during the queens funeral when the bagpipes were being played
Everyone gets homesick, this scene made me feel that ( Just for the character* they could not have casted a better duke of Windsor imo
It’s sad that he gave up the throne for a hollow love.
Interesting that it wasn't hollow. They remained in love together until their end. Same couldn't have been said of all royal relationships.
@@alalalala57 um...may want to research that. Wallis abandoned him treated him like garbage and wasn’t there when he was on his death bed. He died asking for her. He was with a nurse...no one from his family was present. You do understand that The Crown isn’t exact history...it’s for entertainment. Like I said...may want to research what REALLY happened.
@@Sitchinite420 maybe you should too, you are highly mistaken. We all must admit when we are wrong
You could have had it all. You could have made history
One of the few times in my life I’ve cried. He was forced to choose between his love and his homeland and anyone who blames him for the choice he made is cruel.
Haunting
Just thinking, How some some scenes are powerfull. Gigantic emotions....
'You had the chance to serve your country, the greatest chance. You gave it up'
The saddest scene in The Crown
Ok, I’ve heard this song a couple of times now and can’t seem to find the name of it. They played it at Prince Phillips funeral where it was was just called a Lament but there’s loads of bagpipe laments according to google
Flowers of the forest apparently
@@benhumphreys1871 Yup. Definitely not played on the pipes though... a synthesized version that lacks the proper embellishments/subtlety of the pipes (and kinda odd timing). All pipers will also notice at the end of this scene the cardinal sin that the pipes are falling off his shoulder, showing that he doesn't really know how to hold them (probably no air in the bag). I don't understand why they didn't just use a recording of actual pipes playing it properly... and why they didn't cork up the bag to keep air in it so that he could hold them upright. But I guess only us bagpipe nerds would notice. Still a good scene though.
0:29 Who's here after watching the bagpipe in late Queen's funeral!😭😭
We're either kings or pawns..;)
A perfect example of why it's "-Bros- The Crown Before Ho's"...
To have a show that details him coming to the throne, ultimately giving it up, and having the crown fall to his brother written by Peter Morgan and made by Netflix. Like a prequel to The Crown!
You just described the plot of The King's Speech.
It took a lot of courage to give up the throne for the one he loves. I believe he feels a relief that he is free from the system. No regrets.