I'd like to talk briefly about the Prime Minister if I may.

Ma'am?

Historically I'm not worried too much about Prime Minister's popularity.

It tends to come again very quickly.

But I have a feeling that could be different with Mr Blair.

People really do seem to love him

and see him as a true son of England

and a unifying national symbol in a way they used to see, well me.

And with Mr Blair scoring higher than me in every survey one can find,

perhaps now is the time. To find out what seems to have gone

wrong and how we could I could do better. Welcome to the Crown the official podcast.

I'm Edith Bowman and this is a show that follows the sixth and final season of the Netflix

series The Crown, episode by episode.

We'll be taking you behind the scenes, speaking to many of the creatives involved

and diving deep into the stories.

Today we'll be talking about episode six, titled Ruritania.

Two years into his premiership,

Tori Blair continues to ride a wave of unprecedented popularity.

This unnerves the Queen who worries that the Royal Family's own popularity doesn't match up.

When she commissions a wide-ranging poll, the results are sobering,

leading the Queen to reflect on what she and the palace could be doing differently.

After Blair's reputation is further cemented by his successful humanitarian

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