Name: Marionettes
Released: 2018-01-19
Cast: Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Victoria Hamilton

1) pusillanimity

The pusillanimity and vindictiveness knows no limits.
2) p.m.

As a matter of fact, they suggested 4 p.m.
3) triforium

Triforium 2, turn left please.
4) vindictiveness

The pusillanimity and vindictiveness knows no limits.
5) transept

-South transept. -South transept standing by, sir.
6) tranquilizer

Doctors plied her with tranquilizer and morphine
7) investiture

the investiture of a new sovereign, a beautiful young child,
8) abdication

That was the final box I received as King. It contained my abdication papers.
9) eunuch

It will feel like a eunuch, an amoeba, is kneeling before his wife.
10) scold

what a scold you are.
11) irrelevance

An irrelevance. Everyone does.
12) chairmanship

The chairmanship is what he wants. With full autonomy.
13) moustache

The men with moustache? They hate me.
14) rabble

What a vile, tawdry rabble my relatives are
15) rations

while the rest of the country is on rations, have it.
16) vulture

Might just throw some of the vulture off the scent.
17) ambush

- An ambush? - Not at all, sir.
18) outsider

They treat me as an outsider.

1) televise

-If you want to stay on the throne, yes. -In a trimmed-down televise coronation?
2) anoint

"Be thy hands, anoint, with holy oil.
3) oblige

Of course the Royal Family is oblige to extend an invitation to you,
4) kneel

You'll be kneel before God and the Crown as we all do.
5) entitle

as a member of the Queen's close family, you are entitle to attend,
6) flatten

Because I'm already flatten under the weight of this thing.
7) disrespect

Namely, would I do anything that excludes or disrespect the woman I love?
8) overthrow

I have seen first-hand what it is like for a royal family to be overthrow
9) descend

Because I shan't be there when the jackals descend
10) adore

I adore you, my sweetheart,
11) cuckold

Cuckolded by Nehru, if you please.
12) assemble

Later in the day, all the members of the family assemble
13) beg

I beg you make an exception for me.
14) thrill

You must have been thrill, Your Highness.
15) sha

Because I sha't be there when the jackals descend
16) warn

and although she doesn't look quite as bad as the doctors warn me,
17) intend

-He said you intend to refuse. -I merely asked the question.
18) propose

How close are you proposing that these cameras get?

1) furiously

and I am furiously mad that you aren't here with me
2) oddly

I find the sentiment oddly applicable to you, too.
3) wherever

Wherever she went, she was assured of an applause
4) meanwhile

Meanwhile, the people who have come to share in it are locked outside.
5) perfectly

-It's crazy. -On the contrary. It's perfectly sane.
6) twice

Couldn't bear to go over twice.
7) properly

And its size means the Duke and I can finally entertain properly
8) indeed

A very sacred promise indeed.
9) previously

never previously changed liturgy and text...
10) exactly

That's exactly what the King said.
11) perhaps

Perhaps we could extend that to include former kings too.
12) sometimes

Its weakness, too. Sometimes lines just need to be drawn.
13) finally

And its size means the Duke and I can finally entertain properly
14) otherwise

You have to anoint me, otherwise, I can't...
15) deep

which sprang from some deep-seated affection and respect.
16) forward

and we must put our best foot forward.
17) quite

and although she doesn't look quite as bad as the doctors warned me,
18) therefore

Therefore, it is what I want.

1) vice-chair

-Norfolk can be vice-chair. -Why don't you think about it?
2) sartorial

What sartorial tips would you give the young men of today?
3) desiccated

and what a sad, desiccated bunch of hyenas most of them have become.
4) tawdry

What a vile, tawdry rabble my relatives are
5) ostentatious

Make it less ostentatious. More egalitarian.
6) unfathomable

An unfathomable web of arcane mystery and liturgy.
7) befitting

Let us give her a coronation that is befitting
8) overblown

You want a big overblown ceremony costing a fortune
9) unconscionable

It's an unconscionable vulgarization.
10) hellish

Hellish London.
11) inhumane

and inhumane to you, my beloved, is wearing me down.
12) unattractive

It's released an unattractive sense of authority and entitlement
13) smug

and as full of my smug, stinking relations as ever.
14) scant

Of Christian charity, how very scant you are, you Auld Lang Swine,
15) reigning

I'm aware that it's normal for no reigning monarchs
16) liege

do become your liege man of life and limb, and of earthly worship.
17) arcane

An unfathomable web of arcane mystery and liturgy.
18) dreaded

Alright, everyone. She's arriving. In the dreaded Gold State Coach.

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