The Crown
Duty lasts a lifetime.
Status
Ended
Country
Network
Netflix
Production
Genre
Creators
Actors
Imelda Staunton, Jonathan Pryce, Olivia Colman, Lesley Manville, Dominic West, Matt Smith, Jonny Lee Miller, Claudia Harrison, Tobias Menzies, Marcia Warren
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Peter Morgan, Jonathan Wilson
Producer
Martin Harrison, Andy Stebbing, Michael Casey, Oona O'Beirn, Andrew Eaton, Robert Fox, Peter Morgan, Suzanne Mackie, Matthew Byam-Shaw, Andy Harries
Camera operator
Adriano Goldman
Composer
Editing
Simon Brasse, Celia Haining, Richard Graham
Whole Team (159)
Whole Team (159)
Short description
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny.
The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
Seasons
| Season | Episodes | Release date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
Season 1 As a young Elizabeth becomes Queen, she must manage major political issues and personal matters, which often clash in ways she never imagined.
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10 | 2016-11-04 | 8 |
Season 2 As a new era begins, Queen Elizabeth struggles to navigate a world that's changing around her while preserving both the monarchy and her marriage.
|
10 | 2017-12-08 | 8 |
Season 3 As the 1960s and '70s unfold, the royal family contends with conflict and betrayal while striving to uphold tradition in the face of an evolving world.
|
10 | 2019-11-17 | 7.7 |
Season 4 As the 1970s are drawing to a close, Queen Elizabeth and her family find themselves preoccupied with safeguarding the line of succession by securing an appropriate bride for Prince Charles, who is still unmarried at 30.
|
10 | 2020-11-15 | 8.1 |
Season 5 Diana and Charles wage a media war. The monarchy's role is up for debate. Welcome to the '90s — and Queen Elizabeth II's biggest challenge to date.
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10 | 2022-11-09 | 7.2 |
Season 6 Season 6, Part 1 continues with Princess Diana's and explores the events surrounding her tragic death in 1997. Season 6, Part 2 sees Queen Elizabeth II reflect on her reign and look ahead to a time when her successors will take the throne.
|
10 | 2023-11-16 | 7.1 |
What's left behind the scenes
- As a mark of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II, Netflix postponed the filming of the 6th season by two days.
- Due to copyright issues, the series creators could not use photographs taken by Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon. They asked photographer Julian Broad to take several shots for the series in the style of Snowdon's work. In the 1980s, Broad worked as Snowdon's assistant for two years.
- Queen Elizabeth II (1926–2022) had blue eyes, as did the first actress in the role, Claire Foy. When Olivia Colman began playing Elizabeth II, she was initially given blue contact lenses, but this negatively affected her acting performance. The show's creators tried to change her eye color during post-production, but the producers decided that this didn't work either. In the end, it was decided not to change the eye color.
- Filming for the first season took place at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire in August 2015, and at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in Cambridgeshire from November 2015 to March 2016.
- The series quite accurately portrays King George VI's stutter. The historical tragicomedy 'The King's Speech' was filmed about this specific speech impediment.
- Vanessa Kirby, who played Princess Margaret, does not smoke in real life, so she had to use so-called herbal cigarettes for her on-screen portrayal.
- The series depicts Elizabeth II opposing Princess Margaret's marriage to RAF Captain Peter Townsend on the grounds that he was divorced. This is a widespread misconception. Archive data published in 2004 shows that Her Majesty and Prime Minister Anthony Eden (1897-1977) had prepared documents permitting the marriage on the condition that Margaret and her descendants renounce their claims to the throne. Regardless, Margaret publicly announced her break with Townsend 'in view of her duties to her country'.
- In the scene depicting George VI's lung resection surgery, the actors were replaced by real surgeons and nurses. For added authenticity, a mannequin was made of Jared Harris (who played George), and the procedures were performed on it. The 'body' included a working heart model, diseased lungs, and other internal organs. After filming, the mannequin was donated to the Gordon Museum of Pathology at the Royal College of Surgeons in London at the request of the surgeon who performed the 'operation,' Dr. Pankaj Chandak.
- John Lithgow, who played Winston Churchill, mentioned that the makeup was not complicated at all, and the application process before filming took no more than 20 minutes. To transform into the character, he had to put on a wig, use special mouth inserts to make his cheeks look fuller, and wear a tight collar to create a double chin.
- The famous black door of the Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street had to be made larger so that John Lithgow, who is 192 cm tall, would not look significantly taller than his prototype, Winston Churchill, who was 177 cm.
- At the very beginning of work on the project in 2014, it was intended that Felicity Jones would play the role of Elizabeth II.
- Claire Foy, who plays Elizabeth II, is four years older than Vanessa Kirby, who plays Princess Margaret. In reality, the age difference between the reigning Queen and her younger sister is indeed four years.
- One of the most expensive series in history. The budget for each episode is 5 million dollars. Even before the filming of the first episode was completed, it was decided to produce two seasons, with the possibility of filming four more subsequently.
- According to the series producers, Claire Foy was paid less for the first and second seasons than Matt Smith, who played Prince Philip (1921-2021). They offered their apologies and pledged that in all future seasons, actresses playing Queen Elizabeth II will be paid the same as those playing Prince Philip.
- Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon (1930-2017, photographer and designer, husband of Princess Margaret from 1960 to 1978), used a Leica camera, which was known for its silent shutter, explaining its popularity among photographers.
- Wallis Simpson, the wife of the Duke of Windsor, played by Leah Williams, was not present during the abdication of former King Edward VIII, although the series claims otherwise.
- The first season of the series tells the story of Edward VIII (1894-1972), his abdication, and the attitude toward him by the royal family and members of the British government, but it makes no mention of the extent to which this attitude was influenced by the sympathies of he and his wife, Wallis Simpson (1896-1986), toward Nazism and specifically Adolf Hitler (1889-1945). Details of this were classified by order of Winston Churchill (1874-1965) and were only published in 1957. It was then that the depth of the pro-Nazi sentiments of Edward and his spouse were revealed, as well as details of a Nazi conspiracy to overthrow King George VI (1895-1952) and place Edward on the throne as a Nazi puppet. This is discussed in detail in one of the episodes of the second season. In mid-2015, a year and a half before this episode aired, previously classified newsreel footage became public, showing Edward teaching the future Queen Elizabeth II (who was around seven years old at the time), her mother, and her sister the Nazi salute. It is believed that this footage was filmed in 1933 or 1934, shortly before or shortly after Hitler rose to power in Germany.
- To capture Winston Churchill's slightly nasal way of speaking, actor John Lithgow stuffed his nose with cotton. A linguist was constantly on set to monitor the actors' delivery, as pronunciation had evolved over time.
- In reality, the romance between Princess Margaret (1930–2002) and Roddy Llewellyn lasted from 1973 to 1981, although the series depicts it as being much shorter.
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