Therefore, the Queen Dowager is left irate, though still confident enough to declare herself a winner in front of Hwa-ryeong. She summons Physician Song into the room and watches him explain how he didn’t use ingredients given to him by Cho in Cheong-ha‘s heart medicine so she can keep her fetus unharmed. When the Queen Dowager wants to take things further and let the King know of the Crown Princess’s pregnancy woes, we see the Queen has planned ahead. The King is willing to consider this marriage, even if it would be unprecedented. Here, the usually clumsy royal is forced to protect his family when his secret child is revealed to the King by his grandmother, so he expresses his desire to marry Cho-wol despite her low-born status, unwilling to abandon who he loves. Meanwhile, Queen Dowager Cho is planning to “sway” Hwa-ryeong into “bending the King’s will” by revealing the weaknesses of her children.Īfter the Queen Dowager’s sneaky plan for the Crown Princess to unknowingly miscarry looks to have been successfully carried out, we cut to Grand Prince Muan. With that being said, Her Majesty is still concerned with disallowing the room for tragedy to repeat, meaning she will attempt to “pave” the way for the King to understand the rationale she and her son are subscribing to. As such, he is ending investigations into the death of the late Crown Prince, a difficult decision the Queen is sympathetic towards when Seongnam expresses his dissatisfaction. Still, the elder is brittle in her response, reminding her son that any exposing of how he got to lead the kingdom will simply mean he is denying his own legitimacy.įollowing the advice of Park Gyeong-u, His Majesty looks to “let go of the past” in favor of becoming a sage King. Later, we see Queen Dowager Cho failing to convince the King to “destroy” anything in his way (like the son of Ik-hyeon), with His Majesty wanting to no longer “taint” his throne with blood. “Your safety is also in danger now,” the Queen states, before she hears the promised favor required of her by Yoon is for Uiseong to be allowed to live. Under the Queen’s Umbrella season 1, episode 16 recap – the finaleĪs the King shakily faces requests to execute Prince Uiseong (as well as Yoo Sang-uk and the Deposed Queen Yoon) for their part in the planned rebellion against him, Hwa-ryeong delivers the news of Ik-hyeon’s death to his mother. This was a show which really built-in quality as it went on and ensured it went out with a bang, albeit a far more subdued, tranquil one than expected.

It was a good strategy, with the peaceful ending a refreshing change of pace from the breakneck drama of the last few weeks, and it also allowed us to get resolutions to every character’s story arcs. Perhaps surprisingly, the finale of Under the Queen’s Umbrellaramped up the poignancy, choosing to focus on both the finishing off of the constant fighting in the kingdom and the positive after-effects.

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