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An interesting episode as the queen interrogated her children in an attempt to find her favorite. Good acting and an interesting perspective on the royal children.

The contrast between all of the Queen's heirs was interesting to see. Anne has grown furious and scared of the spotlight, Andrew is being very reckless and endangering his own life due to his passions, Edward has grown to become a vengeful yet privileged teenager who's also aware and embracing of his privilege, and Charles is destroying his marriage due to his love for Camilla and for his disrespect of Diana's wishes of staying in London.

Finally a good episode!! I don't have kids but I've been one and i know what my parents were like with me. The overall direction and depth of this episode made it so much better, interesting and dynamic.

As pointed out many times, this is fiction, loosely based on reality. Therefore one should not expect a documentary or unimaginative episodes about events of historical importance during the 80s.

This episode may be considered low key or even superfluous, but it explores - with wonderful logic and insight - the queen's personality. So far, the queen has been portrayed as a woman of low culture but great determination and and unshakable sense of duty. She has some admirable qualities, but knowing herself (and others) is not her strong point.

One could even venture to say that digging deeper into her own personality would probably disturb her and such is the extent of lack of "intimate knowledge" that challenged by Prince Philip, she cannot even name her favourite child.

In fact, her sense of justice and equality is appalled at the idea of having to "pick a winner" - so to speak. But, intrigued by Thatcher candid acknowledgement that Mark is her favorite son, the queen embarks in a series of one-to-one with her four children, only to discover that they are all lost in their own peculiar way.

Psychologically brilliant and one of my favourite episodes. PS and BTW her favourite is... just do yourself a favour and watch this episode ;-)

As strong as this episode was in comparison to the 3 which preceded it, I still can't shake the insurmountable feeling that the creators are speeding far too quickly through the British periodical timeline this season - with 3 / 4 years somehow covered within the first 4 episodes - contrasted by the fact that each of the 2 seasons the show launched with covered only 7 years in either (featuring Claire Foy as monarch). Now if the Thatcher era was relatively low-key & uneventful, I could've understood this creative decision but obviously, it was the complete opposite; incredibly interesting, brimming with pivotal moments in British history - that should've been featured, had they devoted more time to this adaptation.

Therefore, the stark difference in pacing leaves the episodes feeling noticeably less developed than before - which is a tremendous shame, because as I've already stated, the 80s arguably contained the highest concentration of defining moments since WW2 in our nation's past (Charles & Diana, Diana at the White House, the IRA, royal intrusion, miner's strike, recession, protests, the battle of Orgreave, gay rights, Hillsborough disaster, Dennis Nilsen, Pan Am Flight 103, the AIDS crisis, Falklands, Yorkshire Ripper etc.) & thus, although some of these events are included or referenced subtly, this decade deserved to have that richness reflected in full & far more detail - with the amount of time Peter Morgan invested in to their inclusion mirroring their significance. To do otherwise trivialises their importance - which should be accepted.

Unfortunately, that hasn't been the case & consequently, already, there's a growing list of important moments that have been ignored / skimmed over / left out entirely.