History Awesome / TheCrown2016

* Margeret's friends discover that Billy Wallace has been cheating on her before they've even announced their engagement, so they drag him sobbing and begging for his life, out onto the field of honor, shove a flintlock pistol into his hands and tell him to TakeTenPacesAndTurn.

%%!Series 6

* Phillip telling the Queen Mother to finally [[ShutUpHannibal shush]] and let Elizabeth give the speech she wants to give, saying she has served the Crown and God immaculately for 40 years and deserves to express her grief. Elizabeth then adds to her mother's condescending response that Phillip has been supportive of her from day one and tells her mother they are due soon, imperiously shushing her up and earning an approving smile from her husband.

* Phillip telling the Queen Mother to finally [[ShutUpHannibal shush]] and let Elizabeth give the speech she wants to give, saying she has served the Crown and God immaculately for 40 years and deserves to express her grief. Elizabeth then adds to her mother's condescending response that Phillip has been supportive of her from day one and tells her Mom they are due soon, imperiously shushing her mom up and earning and approving smile from her husband.

* Anne telling off her mother for expecting her to wait to marry her paramour Timothy Laurence because of duty. She tells Elizabeth that she bent herself to shape for this family and duty and she needs a bit of her for her own life. She promptly kisses him outside the palace.

* Anne telling off her mother for expecting her to wait to marry her paramour Timothy Laurence because of duty. She tells Elizabeth that she bent herself to shape for this family and duty and she needs a bit of her for her own life.

* At the end of the season, [[CallingTheYoungManOut Elizabeth finally calls out Charles]] for his failure to put in any effort to fix his and Diana's marriage, laying out how enormously privileged he and Diana are, how no one has any sympathy for him, and how his behavior is the furthest thing from a king.

* Elizabeth at the end of "Pride & Joy" when she is told that she needs to skip the Gibraltar because of death threats: she refuses due to her duty to her subjects on the Rock and delivers this cathartic speech after watching so many people second guess her as Queen.

* Elizabeth at the end of "Pride & Joy" when she is told that she needs to skip the island of Gibraltar because of death threats: she refuses due to her duty to her subjects in the island and delivers this cathartic speech after watching so many people undermine her as Queen.

* At the end of the season, [[CallingTheYoungManOut Elizabeth finally calls out Charles]] for his inability to put in any effort to fix his and Diana's marriage, laying out how enormously privileged he and Diana are, how no one has any sympathy for him, and how his behavior is the furthest thing from a king.

* The Coronation ceremony of Elizabeth. The grand spectacles, the ritual, and that it is televised. The kicker also that her Uncle David, after making rude jokes about her, got to be reminded about what he gave up.

* At the end of the season, [[CallingTheYoungManOut Elizabeth finally calls out Charles]] for his inability to put in any effort to fix his and Diana's marriage, laying out how enormously privileged he and Diana are and how his behavior is the furthest thing from a king.

* At the end of the season, Elizabeth finally calls out Charles for his inability to put in any effort to fix his and Diana's marriage, laying out how enormously privileged he and Diana are and how his behavior is the furthest thing from a king.

* At the end of the season, Elizabeth finally calls out Charles for his inability to put in any effort to fix his and Diana's marriage and how his behavior is the furthest thing from a king.

* Margaret convincing President Andrew Johnson to give the United Kingdom a bail-out by insulting JFK who is Johnson's predecessor, challenging him to a drinking contest and making up dirty limericks. In other words, she manages to save her country's economic situation just by being herself despite her sister begging her to be the exact opposite.

* Elizabeth [[CallingTheOldManOut tells her uncle off]] for worming his way into her good graces with her and for having been involved with the Nazis during WWII, even at the point where he would be sabotaging his own brother and country. She gives a delicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to her uncle after he insults her intelligence and insinuates she, the family, and the staff are inhumane.

-->'''Margaret''': You pathetic, weak, contemptible fool. I never even wanted to marry you. You were only ever an act of charity. Or desperation. And now you insult me? ''You?'' People like you don't get to insult people like me. You get to be eternally grateful. You've quite the way with women. Take a look at this face. A picture of disappointment and disgust. This is the look that every woman you ever know will come to share. This is what the next 40 years of your life will look like.

* Diana immediately endears herself to the entire family when she not only spots a prize buck far in the distance, but is even instrumental in helping Philip nab it by correcting his reading of the wind.

* At the end of the season, Elizabeth finally calls out Charles for his inability to put in any effort to fix his and Diana's marriage and how his behavior is the the furthest thing from a king.

* Elizabeth going down hard against Margaret Thatcher for her racism ("lack of compassion") for the Black citizens of South Africa, even the media noted that she went from a woman most comfortable talking about dogs and horses to someone who is a force to be reckoned with.