As an unreconstructed Anglophile which has my Irish progenitors spinning in their graves, I found the opening sequences outstanding. The segment about the Industrial Revolution was a slap in the face to Barak Kardashian Osama. They did it on their own with no royal or parliamentarian support.
Unfortunately, the rest of it degenerated into an MTV or a Super Bowl halftime show.
As an unreconstructed American, descendant of Revolutionary War patriots and no fan of monarchy in general, with English ancestry going back to the Domesday Book, I was embarrassed for the old gal and am certain that the royal family of England has taken a hit to their dignity from which they will never recover, something even goofy, addled Charles hasn’t yet managed to do.