“The Crown is a love letter to [the queen] and I have nothing to add for the moment, just silence and respect. We will interrupt the shooting, also out of respect”, declared Peter Morgan on September 8 at the American site Deadline, shortly after the announcement of the death of Elizabeth II, while social networks were rustling jokes of the unhappy viewers to have done” Spoiler “The very popular Netflix series, created in 2016 by the English screenwriter and playwright.
At its launch in 2016, The Crown was announced as the first original Netflix production in the United Kingdom, a large series of series. It quickly became one of the biggest budgets in the platform, with around 50 million pounds (57.5 million euros) allocated each season. Largely, reproducing the sumptuous sets and the important wardrobe necessary for the meticulous representation of one of the longest reigns in history. 2>
wealth of romantic material
The series begins at the time of the wedding of the future queen with Philip Mountbatten, in 1947. The seasons, separated by temporal ellipses which have the advantage of facilitating casting changes, typically cover ten years each, by roughly following the waltz of the Prime Ministers. The fourth season, broadcast in November 2020, has thus been set on the mandate of Margaret Thatcher. The fifth, which will be posted in November and was originally to be the last, should focus on the last years of Princess Diana and the turning point of the century. Proof, if necessary, the richness of the romantic material provided by the Windsor, and especially the solid audiences of the series, a sixth season is currently on filming.
If The Crown has never presented itself as a documentary and assumes a part of fiction, its creator at the start of the project sought the consent of the queen. He never got it, but never was refused. Nobility obliges, the members of the royal family have always been discreet on their relationship to the series. Only King Charles III would have reacted – in private – with a gratin portrait that is made of him in season 4. “I am far from looking like the image they give of me on Netflix,” he said to the leader of the Scottish Labor Party. The subject has never been confirmed by the main interested party.
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