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The Crown: The official book of the hit Netflix series

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Therein lies the problem, even the most even-handed of the British find it almost impossible not to view the Indian people through this sieve, this attitude, that always leaves them with more or less the outcome they anticipate, primarily because they have pre-ordained it. They do not know what to do with a person who should be on their side of the divide but who fails to look at the Indian population through this filter. Finally, to the right and just below Hari/Harry is Parvati in her singing posture, with two attendants approaching bearing a palanquin. She sings:

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This might be the story of the physical rape of Daphne Manners, but it is as much the story of the emotional rape of Hari Kumar. He is subjected to a kind of demoralization and dehumanization that makes a person weep in despair for all of mankind. At one point in the novel he states that he has become invisible, and he is right that the true self, the individual who is really Harry Coomer (the name he used in England all of his first eighteen years of life), can no longer be seen by anyone beneath the forced personae of Hari Kumar. In his lonely, isolated existence, in which he belongs to neither side of the society--not English because his skin is the wrong color, not Indian because his upbringing and exposures make him foreign--he finds Daphne Manners, a person who sees Harry Kumar, the whole person, both the Indian and the English reality. For Daphne, Harry is real, he is visible. I am not one to love a mystery and I am not one who loves British mannerisms. You get a lot of both in this book. Good book, but not a good fit for ME. This then, was the time when I first read The Jewel in the Crown, along with many of my friends. It was a time when British people were tired, and largely ashamed, of their Imperial past.The Jewel in the Crown is an impressive and important work. Scott manages to bring India to life in a physical as well as a spiritual sense. He paints scenes that swelter, you can smell the stench of the waste in the river, you can picture the long verandah of The MacGregor House and the lush and overgrown remains of the Bibighar Gardens, smell the fetid breath of the beggars and the acrid smoke of the cheap cigarettes. He is just as facile in painting emotional territory. It was easy to feel the confusion, distress, unhappiness, humiliation, condescension, and momentary joys of his characters.

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To me, Queen Elizabeth II has always been an older woman because when I was younger and first learnt about her she still would have been well into her seventies so I never pictured her as a young woman navigating through the rules and regulations of society, royalty and ruling. One of the best parts of the show is watching how she gracefully handles the dramas that arise and I also love seeing that side of her personal life because she was not just a queen but also a mother of two young children and a wife. I must also say that Claire Foy portrays Queen Elizabeth II so wonderfully and her beauty and talent is so spot on to the real woman herself. It’s easy to see her as a one-dimensional person who is simply a queen without a personal touch but after reading this companion and watching the show you learn so much more about her life that is truly factual because of the help of a great British historian on set like Robert Lacey, the author of this book. I very much like the netflix series based upon the early years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. I admit that I knew very little of her other than she and Princess Diana didn't get along. This book compares the movie to real life events. And, in the end, the series, with a few tweakings, seemed to follow real life events. India is The Jewel in the Crown. It signified the Crown's most precious dominion of the Victorian era- its control, forced conformity, "civilizing" and exploitation of India. the old Queen, (whose image the children now no doubt confused with the person of Miss Crane) surrounded by representative figures of her Indian empire: princes, land owners, merchants, money-lenders, sepoys, farmers, servants, children, mothers, and remarkably clean and tidy beggars...An Indian prince...was approaching the throne bearing a velvet cushion on which he offered a large and sparkling gem”.After reading this book, I understand that season 1 of The Crown covered the years 1947-1955 in Queen Elizabeth’s life. There were 10 episodes, and each gets a chapter in this book. The problem with Siva's posture in the center of our thangka is that in Scott's story his dancing manifestation is cited. This is fine for our principal concern, the unity of the cyclic destruction and rejuvenation manifested in our larger story of colonizer and colonized, as well as the inner story of Daphne and Hari/Harry. Finally, though, I just couldn't stand the company of the British colonial class in India, they were a hideous gaggle of superannuated racists so I abandoned this very remarkable and undoubtedly brilliant novel with relief. In this eye-opening companion to seasons 2 and 3 of Netflix’s acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer and historical consultant Robert Lacey takes us through the real history that inspired the drama. Dunlap, David W. (December 2, 1990). "Commercial Property: Book Publishers; Random House Elects to Stay in Its Midtown Tower". The New York Times . Retrieved January 6, 2019.

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