“ The Crown is a love letter to [la reine] and I have nothing to add for the moment, just silence and respect. We are going to interrupt the filming, also out of respect,” said Peter Morgan September 8 at the US site Deadline, shortly after the announcement of the death of Elizabeth II, while social networks were buzzing with jokes from viewers unhappy to have been “spoiled” the very popular Netflix series, created in 2016 by the English screenwriter and playwright .
At its launch in 2016, The Crown was announced as Netflix’s first original production in the UK, a great land of series. It quickly became one of the biggest budgets on the platform, with around 50 million pounds (57.5 million euros) allocated each season. More than enough to reproduce the sumptuous decorations and the important wardrobe necessary for the meticulous representation of one of the longest reigns in history.
Wealth of romantic material
The series begins when the future queen marries Philip Mountbatten in 1947. The seasons, separated by temporal ellipses which have the advantage of facilitating casting changes, typically cover about ten years each, following at almost the waltz of prime ministers. The fourth season, broadcast in November 2020, was thus fixed on the term of office of Margaret Thatcher. The fifth, which will go live in November and was originally meant to be the last, is expected to focus on Princess Diana’s final years and the turn of the century. Proof, if needed, of the richness of the romantic material provided by the Windsors, and above all of the solid audiences of the series, a sixth season is currently being filmed.
Noblesse oblige, the members of the royal family have always been discreet about their relationship to the series
Whether The Crown was never presented as a documentary and assumes a part of fiction, its creator has at the beginning of the project sought the assent of the queen. He never got it, but was never refused. Noblesse oblige, the members of the royal family have always been discreet about their relationship to the series. Only the now King Charles III would have reacted – in private – to the gratin portrait that is made of him in season 4. “ I am far from resembling the image they give of me on Netflix”, he reportedly told the leader of the Scottish Labor Party. The statement was never confirmed by the principal concerned.
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