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The Crown (2016 series)

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The Crown (TV series; 2016 - 2023)

Plot Summary[]

The Crown focuses on Queen Elizabeth II as a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill. The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne....a new era is dawning. Peter Morgan's masterfully researched scripts reveal the Queen's private journey behind the public facade with daring frankness. Prepare to be welcomed into the coveted world of power and privilege and behind locked doors in Westminster and Buckingham Palace....the leaders of an empire await.

Male Deaths[]

Female Deaths[]

  • Eileen Atkins (Episode 1.5 Smoke and Mirrors)
  • Elizabeth Debicki (Episode 6.4 Dis-Moi-Oui)
  • Anastasia Everall (Episode 5.6 Ipatiev House)
  • Amy Fourman (Episode 5.6 Ipatiev House)
  • Julia Haworth (Episode 5.6 Ipatiev House)
  • Lesley Manville (Episode 6.8 Ritz)
  • Kate Phillips (Episode 1.4 Act of God)
  • Tamara Sulkhanishvili (Episode 5.6 Ipatiev House)
  • Marcia Warren (Episode 6.9 Hope Street)
  • Lia Williams (Episode 5.3 Mou Mou)

Trivia[]

  1. On November 1, 2016, the first two episodes were released theatrically in the United Kingdom.
  2. Vanessa Kirby (Princess Margaret) doesn't smoke in real life. So during production, she had to smoke herbal cigarettes.
  3. When Gillian Anderson was cast to play Margaret Thatcher, many fans argued that she was too sexy for the part.
  4. Coincidentally Helena Bonham Carter's uncle, Mark Bonham-Carter, briefly dated Princess Margaret, the very character Helena portrays in Seasons 3 and 4 of the series.
  5. As spoken in an interview with Vanessa Kirby, Jared Harris said that while he was playing the role of King George VI, he had a cold at the same time his character was also sick.
  6. The series is one of the most expensive television series ever made. Each episode is budgeted at £5 million and it had already been commissioned for two seasons, with the intention of four more, before the first episode had even been completed, or any episode broadcast.
  7. Helen Mirren, who portrayed Elizabeth in The Queen (2006), dismissed speculation that she would succeed Olivia Colman after the series' next time jump, stating "I think it's more interesting when you see other portraits and it builds into a more interesting picture than just someone coming back". Imelda Staunton was later selected to play Elizabeth in the final seasons.
  8. For his role as Sir Winston Churchill, John Lithgow's dialect coach was William Conacher, who also had to coach the other mostly British cast because of subtle changes in English accents over the decades. Lithgow actually stuffed cotton in his nostrils in order to capture the faint nasal timbre of Churchill's intonations, while a dialect evolutionist was on set to monitor the accuracy of accents over the time span of the series. It was noted, for example, that Queen Elizabeth II's pronunciation of vowels during the 1950s differs enormously from the way her grandson Prince Harry speaks today.
  9. Queen Elizabeth II has blue eyes, like her first portrayer Claire Foy. After Olivia Colman was cast as Elizabeth she was tested with blue contact lenses over her brown eyes, but it was decided they negatively affected her performance. Changing her eye color in post production was also tested, but according to the producers "it didn't feel like her. CGI-ing her eyes seemed to diminish what she was doing." Eventually it was decided to accept the continuity error.
  10. Dialect coach William Conacher, who tutored Dame Helen Mirren for her Tony Award-winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in Peter Morgan's 2013 play "The Audience", had a peculiar challenge for Claire Foy and Matt Smith and their pronunciation of such simple terms as "thank you" and "was". He was opposed to Foy attempting a clichéd impression of Her Majesty, so when he explained to her that the Queen barely opens her mouth when she speaks, Foy was better able to relax her jaw and enunciate "thank you" as a more brief, "thenk yu. Smith, on the other hand, had difficulty with the word "was" which he pronounced as "wuz", when the more Princely intonation was more like, "whawz".
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