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- John Armstrong (born November 25, 1758, Carlisle, Pennsylvania [U.S.]—died April 1, 1843, Red Hook, New York, U.S.) was an American soldier, diplomat, and politician who, as U.S. secretary of war during the War of 1812, was blamed for the British capture of Washington, D.C.
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Nov 18, 2019 · Everything you need to know about John Armstrong, the Irish journalist who interviews Princess Alice in Season 3, Episode 4 ("Bubbikins"), of The Crown.
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Dec 18, 2019 · Was journalist John Armstrong real? Armstrong appears to be a fictional character created for the show by creator Peter Morgan. So, this means most of Bubbikins is dramatic licence on the part of...
Nov 2, 2022 · In The Crown season 3, a journalist named John Armstrong writes a glowing article about Princess Alice, Queen Elizabeth's mother-in-law. In reality, that never really happened.
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John Armstrong was an American soldier, diplomat, and politician who, as U.S. secretary of war during the War of 1812, was blamed for the British capture of Washington, D.C. Armstrong fought in the American Revolution (1775–83) and, as an officer in the Continental Army, was apparently the author.
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- In The Show, Her Role Is Vital.
- But Most of It Didn't happen.
- The Crown Invents The Character as A Smart Plot device.
Princess Alice is brought from Greece to England because of political unrest, and Philip's not too keen on the situation—the two haven't seen each other in years, and she's been absent most of his life in a sanitarium (she was diagnosed with schizophrenia) and, later, in a religious order. But then Guardianreporter Armstrong, who had previously wri...
Oops. Now, granted, The Crowndoesn't profess to be a documentary—it's a dramatization of true events. But, usually, these events are pretty heavily drawn from real-life documents, photos, and biographies. Not so in this case, apparently. Per The Times: However, what istrue is that Philip and Alice did become close in her last years: Which is a swee...
Spoilers for season three. Some episodes in season three–"Aberfan," for example, and "Tywysog Cymru"–draw closely from their source material; "Bubbikins" is not one of them. What "Bubbikins" does do, however, is use the fictional character of Armstrong as a means of exposing the oft-terse relationship between the monarchy and the public, not to men...
Nov 18, 2019 · Who is John Armstrong in The Crown? In season three, episode four, fans get their first glimpse at actor Colin Morgan as journalist John Armstrong.
John Armstrong (born 1966) is a British writer and philosopher living in Hobart, Australia. He was born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and London, later directing the philosophy program at the University of London's School of Advanced Study.
