Despite the initial conflict, we see a tentative bond between the two women during a scene where Queen Elizabeth introduces Jackie to her Corgi pups, and the two women discuss their mutual feelings of insecurity regarding their positions of power.
This common ground is short lived, however, as Lord Plunket (Sam Crane) informs Queen Elizabeth that Jackie called her "a middle-aged woman so incurious, unintelligent and unremarkable that Britain's new reduced place in the world was not a surprise but an inevitability," and condemned Buckingham Palace as "second rate, dilapidated and sad, like a neglected provincial hotel."
As it turns out, The Crown creator and writer Peter Morgan wasn't quite as hyperbolic as you'd expect. Royal historian Hugo Vickers at The Times reported on Gore Vidal's 1995 memoir Palimpsest, where he revisits notes from his life in 1961. According to Vidal's account, Jackie described the Queen as "pretty heavy-going" and told him: "I think the queen resented me. Philip was nice, but nervous. One felt absolutely no relationship between them. The queen was human only once."
It wasn't all bad, though. As Vickers wrote, Jackie later told photographer Cecil Beaton: "They were all tremendously kind and nice". And yet she remained unimpressed by the decoration of Buckingham Palace, the Queen's dress sense and her "flat" hair.
Ouch. Whether or not the Queen knew of these remarks at the time, though, is not a matter of public record.
