So opens The Crown, Netflix’s latest and most ambitious foray in the world of original programming. The year is 1947, the toilet bowl is in Buckingham Palace and the man spattering it with sanguineous sputum is King George VI, on the morning of his eldest daughter Princess Elizabeth’s marriage to Johnny Foreigner, known to his friends as Philip Mountbatten. You could only be in England, and so it very much turns out we are. Later, he asks his doctor if he should be concerned about “a spot of blood in my spittle”. A man coughs bloodied lung lining up into a toilet bowl.
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