![]() ![]() Admitting that the song has “special meaning” for her but drawing a heavily loaded veil over precisely why, the Princess is then shown spending her own lonely nights pasting photos (of herself) into an album, while – as the song continues – Townsend, also listening to the radio programme in his French cottage, begins to compose a letter to her.Īs Carmichael reaches the climax of the tune and begins whistling a variation on the melody, the nostalgic lovers join in. ![]() “Sometimes I wonder why I spend the lonely night, dreaming of a song,” Hoagy Carmichael himself croons on the 1942 recording which is introduced as the final record on Margaret’s Desert Island Discs appearance at the start of the fourth episode. The tune is Hoagy Carmichael’s dreamy 1927 song Stardust and it pops up several times in the episode which offsets the dreadful year experienced by the Queen with a story about the reunion of her sister and her long lost love, Group Captain Peter Townsend, whom she had had to give up almost 40 years earlier at the Queen’s request. In the new season, a single song dominates the entire Annus Horribilis episode – and, once more, it is thanks to the Princess Margaret storyline. Jazz devotees have already been indulged by Princess Margaret’s (historically accurate) fondness for the genre, resulting in some choice tracks from Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald in earlier seasons of the drama.
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