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This isn't the first instance when Elizabeth shows her utter, polished disdain for Frank. Because, "When he loses, Claire can begin her own career. She asks the ladies-who-lunch to reach into their deep pockets to support Dunbar. (Can we just talk about how coldly he dropped that bombshell on Claire? Ice, ice, baby.)Įlizabeth gets her own back, though. The ladies, all aging southern belles, are clearly itching to get the dirt on Frank, especially the way Frank used Elizabeth's very private battle against cancer in the Episode 1 to stave off media speculation about his relationship with Claire.
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Claire's mother, Elizabeth Hale, dressed in blue silk and pearls and a confident smile, is taking tea with a clearly powerful group of ladies-who-lunch and dissing her own son-in-law, President Underwood. "He is a classless, raceless, shameless barbarian." These are the opening lines of Season 4, Episode 2 of House of Cards. But why? (Spoilers for those that have not caught up with the current season.) Now we are finally meeting Elizabeth Hale in Season 4, and it is abundantly clear that Claire's mother hates Frank on House of Cards. And neither, it seems, did Claire's mother. When her husband Frank let his guard down for a few brief, beautiful moments during Season 3 with writer Tom Yates, he admitted that he had always felt "ashamed" that she said yes to his marriage proposal. And it wasn't just the way she carried herself, or her grace under pressure.
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We always knew Claire Underwood came from gentility.