The Crown season 5: everything we know

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Sat, 31 Jul 2021 08:48:23 +0000

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The Crown season 5 may see the Princess Diana storyline through to its tragic conclusion.

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The Crown season 5, like previous seasons, will adapts real-world events through the prism of prestige drama and filming is ongoing, with Netflix now having released our first glimpse of Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II (see above for that).

The Crown seasons 1-4 has used anime-style time skipping to keep the show interesting and to cover broad eras of the royal family's history. For a lot of people who don't know the family's history, Netflix's drama has proven to be an education.

Season 4 took us up to 1990, while season 5 will take us deeper into the decade. The Crown season 5 will give viewers another cast shake-up as we leap through time once more for the show's final few seasons, and Netflix has finally started talking about who's being added for this next run. Most recently, Jonny Lee Miller was added to the series as former Prime Minister John Major, but there are still a lot of actors we're yet to hear about.

Spoilers follow, as we go in-depth with everything we know about The Crown season 5 so far.

Release date: The Crown season 5 is filming now, so we'd expect to see the show return at some point in 2022.

Story: With The Crown season 4 ending in Christmas 1990, expect this next season to explore the end of Charles and Diana's marriage, John Major's time as Prime Minister, and the Queen's annus horribilis in 1992.

Cast: Imelda Staunton will take on the role ofQueen Elizabeth II, with Jonathan Pryce playing Prince Philip, Elizabeth Debicki cast as Princess Diana, Lesley Manville taking on the role of Princess Margaret and Jonny Lee Miller playing John Major.

The future: The Crown has already been renewed for a sixth and final season, which is apparently set to cover up until the early 2000s. Dianas fairytale quickly unravels. (Image credit: Des Willie) Best Netflix shows You season 3
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There will be a longer wait than usual for season 5 of The Crown. Deadline reported back in July 2020 that filming wouldnt start until June 2021, with the series set to hit Netflix in 2022. The break in production is actually
not down to the ongoing pandemic the show had planned to take a gap year
long before COVID presented the world of TV and film with numerous
challenges.

The same report says season 6 is set to film in 2022, so the gap between the next two seasons should be slightly shorter.

Filming has indeed begun on season 5, according to reports, and the fact that we've now had our first look at Staunton as the Queen. The Crown season 5
cast The Crown season 5 cast: out with the young (Image credit: Netflix/Des Willie) Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana Jonny Lee Miller as John Major And many more to be
confirmed

The fifth season of The Crown will undergo another sizeable cast shake-up, as our ageing royal family enters the 1990s The Crown season 4 ended in late 1990, as we'll discuss further down.

Well be waving farewell to Olivia Colman and welcoming Imelda Staunton to
take on the role of Queen Elizabeth II. You may recognize Staunton from her role as the abominable Professor Umbridge in Harry Potter. Similarly, Tobias Menzies will be stepping aside to allow fellow Game of Thrones co-star Jonathan Pryce to take over as Prince Philip.

Additionally, well see Phantom Threads Lesley Manville assume the role of Princess Margaret, and Elizabeth Debicki , who you may know from Christopher Nolan's Tenet , will play the slightly older version of Princess Diana.

While the main cast changes have been confirmed, we are yet to find out who will fill the shoes of some of the key supporting cast. The roles of the Queens children, Anne, Edward and Andrew, are still unconfirmed, as are Camilla Parker Bowles and the Queen Mother. A Variety report from October
2020 said that The Affairs Dominic West was in near-final talks for Prince Charles role, but that is also unconfirmed.

Season 4 also ended with the resignation of Thatcher, which means well see a new Prime Minister enter the fray. Season 5 will follow the tenure of John Major, and well likely also get a short burst of Tony Blair, who was in
office during Dianas death.

In June 2021, Netflix finally added another cast member to the list: Jonny
Lee Miller as John Major. That likely means we're not too far off learning
who the rest of the cast is going to be, especially if filming is happening now. Jonny Lee Miller will play John Major in the fifth season of The Crown. pic.twitter.com/woMcTQtUmb June 25, 2021 See more The Crown season 4 recap
The Crown season 4 recap: where did it begin and end?

The Crown season 4 picked up in 1977, but the first episode honed in on 1979 with the election of Margaret Thatcher (Gillian Anderson). It also showcased the murder of Lord Mountbatten (Charles Dance), claimed by the IRA, which served as the show's entry point into focusing on the ongoing Troubles in Northern Ireland. We also started to see the show come into what might be termed recent history, with focuses on working class struggles, the dissolution of Apartheid, and Dianas influence on the public.

The Queen (Olivia Colman) also took an early shining to Princess Diana (Emma Corrin) as Charles (Josh O'Connor) perfect, prospective bride. After passing The Balmoral Test with flying colors, the royal family pressured Charles into marrying Diana.

The Queens relationship with Thatcher also began on kind grounds, but slowly neutralized over the course of the season as ol Maggies rule got more and
more ruthless. The pairs personal relationship soured, but ends in a
dignified fashion with mutual respect shown for the traits they have in common.

Season 4 also did a fantastic job of making each and every cast member pretty unlikeable. The substantial age gap between Charles and Diana makes for a turbulent dynamic Charles petulant reactions to Dianas personal struggles paired with his unwillingness to let go of Camilla (Emerald Fennell) makes
him hard to watch in season 4.

Throughout the season, the Queen observed Thatchers weakness when it came to her children, particularly her son Mark who she cited as her favorite. Upon learning this, The Queen sets off on a personal journey to reconnect with her own children, and discovers that they all carry their own indiscretions, emotional baggage and personal struggles.

The Crown season 4 wrapped up in 1990 with the resignation of an unpopular Thatcher and a particularly frosty Christmas at Balmoral Castle. During the festivities, both The Queen and Prince Philip tire of Charles and Dianas marriage complaints. While the Queen simply and coldly urged Charles to focus on his royal duty, Philip turned a darker corner, with a quiet warning of the consequences Diana will face if her marriage fails.

Hey, maybe that's why some critics want to see a pre-show disclaimer
reminding people that The Crown is a fictional drama, and not a documentary (something Netflix has confirmed it has no plans to do). The Crown season 5 plot The Crown season 5 plot: what will happen next? Season 4 suggests the departure of Andersons Thatcher. (Image credit: Des Willie)

With Thatcher gone and Charles and Dianas unhappy union in full swing, well
be sailing full speed ahead into the 1990s. It has also been confirmed that there will be a sixth and final season of The Crown, set to conclude in the early 2000s. Showrunner Peter Morgan has said that "season six will not bring us any closer to present day it will simply enable us to cover the same period in greater detail."

The season doesnt have an official plotline yet, but we can take a swing at what might happen in season 5 based on real-life royal events, with an additional season taken into account.

1992 was a particularly rough year for the Windsor clan. It saw the breakdown of not one, but two royal marriages Prince Andrews separation from Sarah Ferguson, and Princess Annes official divorce from long-term husband Captain Mark Phillips. Prince Andrews wedding featured briefly in The Crown season 4, and we get a glimpse into Annes spousal struggles too, which suggests they
may have a more pivotal role in season 5.

Of course, were in for a further ride with Charles and Dianas relationship, and that was not shy on scandal. In June 1992, author Andrew Morton released Diana: Her True Story, a bestselling autobiographical book that detailed Dianas struggles and the turbulence of her marriage, with her own personal input. The book was published while she was still married to Charles. As you can imagine, it didnt go down too well with the rest of the family, so we suspect it might crop up in the next season. (Image credit: Des Willie)

And to top off that year, we may see a fiery, fictionalized spectacle based
on the 1992 Windsor Castle fire . The real fire burned for around 15 hours
and caused six minor injuries to staff and a great big castle fire is a good old excuse for some top-notch TV drama, isnt it?

All in all, the Queen dubbed 1992 her "annus horribilis" in a famous speech. That's bound to be great material for the writers of Netflix's hit series.

Weve also got scope for a number of scandals inside the British Government in the 1990s. Notably, we have John Majors 1993 Back To Basics campaign,
designed to promote traditional familial values, but ultimately fell into
ruin following a number of scandals inside the Conservative Party.

The Arms to Iraq affair that coursed through the 1990s may also make for
juicy plot developments in The Crown, as government-approved sales of weapons to Iraq made John Major quite unpopular in the run up to Tony Blairs winning election in 1997.

Finally, the core of The Crown season 5 will undoubtedly be the breakdown of Charles and Dianas marriage, until their divorce in 1996, and Dianas tragic death in 1997. We all know that therell be ample room for tension and drama there, and lots of us remember the impact that Dianas death left on the
world.

What remains to be seen is how true to real life The Crown will remain, and how much justice it serves Diana in her final moments. With season 6 on the cards, it is also unclear as to whether season 5 will even get to Dianas death. It may serve as a dramatic season finale, or simply be left for the final series.

Still, we wont be seeing any of that until 2022 at the earliest. In the meantime, maybe it's worth binging a few documentaries about the royal family and reminding yourself about what truly happened. Best Netflix documentaries



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