Before she accepts, she wants to know if he’s still hung up on Elizabeth.
Porchy assures her that he is not.
“For her, there was only ever Philip,” he says.
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Meanwhile, at Buckingham Palace, Philip is not earning that love.
He comes home drunk, and Elizabeth pretends to be asleep.
Their marriage is on the rocks now more than ever.
Elizabeth calls Porchy late at night to talk about her horses.
She does love her horses, but does she love Porchy?
Later, Porchy invites her to meet his fiancee, so it seems he really is over her.
Of course, Margaret gets in Elizabeth’s face about this.
She says that when Porchy was drunk, he confessed to her he still loves Elizabeth.
Elizabeth doesn’t let it bother her.
Why would Margaret even say anything?
Just to mess with her sister in hopes that it’ll lead to a fight with Philip?
Meanwhile, Winston Churchill is getting his portrait done by English Modernist Graham Sutherland for his 80th birthday.
He makes it very difficult as he does with everything.
During a later session, Churchill is a little more accommodating.
We get a peek behind the great man’s gruff veneer and see that there’s something haunting him.
At his ceremony unveiling the painting, Churchill jokes about standing down but still refuses to actually do it.
Hahaha, so funny!
But actually, yo retire.
Really, he’s in denial that heisold and frail, and Sutherland calls him out.
Churchill knows he’s right and it’s that night that he decides to finally retire.
Anthony Eden will be the new prime minister.
Elizabeth and Churchill have their final audience, and it gets sentimental.
“However will I cope without you?”
He replies, “You will be fine, ma’am.
I have nothing more to teach you, which is why it’s time for me to leave.”
Then he kisses her on the forehead.
As his car pulls away, he sees Eden pulling up.
He stops the car and gets out to shake his hand.
Churchill is making a surprisingly graceful exit from the title of Prime Minister.
And, of course, he can’t be serious about this like everyone else.
“Rather like us, darling, when we were courting?”
he teases his wife.
Philip: Is he?
Part of the furniture.
Philip: Well as long as you don’t sit on him anytime soon.
In flashbacks, we see Elizabeth and Philip fighting in the car outside the stables.
We also see the portrait burned in a bonfire, per Churchill’s orders.
Meanwhile, in the present, Philip mouths “sorry” to his wife across the table.
Episode Grade: B-
NEXT:Episode 10, “Gloriana”
