THE CROWN (2016 NETFLIX SERIES)

THE CROWN (2016)

The Crown (2016) is a series that has been released on Netflix and it is about the history of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip and also many other important person in British history. This series has three season and I only watched the first season and a few episodes of it. First of all, this series is written by Peter Morgan, produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix. Besides that, here is a little bit about this series which are the first season covers the period from Queen Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh's marriage in 1947 to the disintegration of her sister Princess Margaret's engagement to Group Captain Peter Townsend in 1955. The second season covers the period from the Suez Crisis in 1956 to the retirement of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963 and the birth of Prince Edward in 1964. The third season spans the period between 1964 and 1977, including Harold Wilson's two periods as prime minister, and introduces Camilla Shand. This series also will be coming with fourth and fifth seasons where the fourth will include Margaret Thatcher's premiership and introduce Lady Diana Spencer. The fifth and final season will cover the Queen's reign into the 21st century.

Based on the first season, we can see how Queen Elizabeth married Prince Phillip and how the throne given to Queen Elizabeth II due to her father, King Edward’s health condition where it has been said that he has cancer. In addition, we can see that King Edward died on episode two in season one. Nevertheless, in reality there was no dispute over Michael Adeane being the natural successor to Tommy Lascelles as Private Secretary. Martin Charteris accordingly took the role in 1972. British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill's wife Clementine is depicted overseeing the burning of his portrait by Graham Sutherland shortly after his retirement. In reality it was destroyed by their private secretary Grace Hamblin's brother without her involvement.

Royal historian Hugo Vickers denied that Princess Margaret had acted as monarch whilst Queen Elizabeth was away on tour, and claimed that her speech at the ambassador’s reception never happened. Martin Charteris was on tour with Queen Elizabeth and not in London during these events. The Queen Mother bought the Castle of Mey a year earlier than shown and often looked after Charles and Anne whilst Queen Elizabeth was away. The show has been interpreted as perpetuating the idea that the Queen and Churchill forced Princess Margaret to give up her plan to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend. In the series, the Queen tells her sister that, if she marries Townsend, she would no longer be a member of the family because of the Royal Marriages Act 1772. However, there is clear evidence that, in reality, efforts had been made to prevent any further delay of the marriage, which would have allowed Princess Margaret to keep her royal title and her civil list allowance, stay in the country, and continue with her public duties.

Regarding the cinematography, this Netflix series has an amazing background where it portrayed the historical beautiful background of buckingham palace and many other beautiful historic places on that series. The character especially Winston Churchill,s character does carried it very well in my opinion and the rest also rest of the casts.

So basically, this is what I can describe about this Netflix series, The Crown. Also, in my opinion, not all the people will like to watch this series because technically we clearly can see it is about history and nor many people do love this kind of story. But for me, I do partially love this kind of genre.