PJ Vogt

Instead, it's a lot of blueprints, it's a lot of recreations, a lot of people in wigs.

The swimming pool's appearance in the doc, as a topic, comes after the section about Queen Elizabeth's many corgis.

We've arrived after three hours and 48 minutes of punishing non-pool-related content at the subject that brought us here.

You'd expect in this moment, in a sane or just world, to see the damn pool, even just a still photograph of it.

Instead, what we get is the palace floor plans we've already seen, except now they add a green rectangle to represent the location of the swimming pool.

And then they cut to a very familiar by now, exterior shot of the pool building, the Parthenon with windows, photographed, as always, from a great distance away.

We are no closer here than we were with Chris.

They recite some facts that we'd already come across in the newspaper archives, like the infamous Nazi attack on the pool soon after its creation.

Maybe the Nazis were also mad they weren't allowed to see the pool.

But the pool was later rebuilt.

We learned that King Charles, as a little kid, would invite his schoolmates over to sail model boats in the pool.

But still, nothing really about the pool itself.

Does it have a diving board?

A marble staircase?

Is it big?

Is it small?

Is it an above-ground number?

We learn zilch.

So this was the totality of what the BBC documentary could offer us about the pool.

Basically nothing.