The actual Queen Elizabeth II died earlier this yr, however the fictionalized retelling of her life continues in Netflix‘s breakout hit, The Crown. The upcoming fifth season jumps ahead to the ’90s, which was a really pivotal time for the British royal household. It additionally throws the highlight on Diana, Princess of Wales (Elizabeth Debicki), the lady who usurped Queen Elizabeth’s place within the hearts and minds of her topics. The marriage of Diana and Prince Charles (Dominic West) was a storybook second within the ’80s. But as you may see within the trailer beneath, the time for fairy story endings is over. And Diana received’t go quietly.

This season, Imelda Staunton is taking up the function of Queen Elizabeth, with Jonathan Pryce as her husband, Prince Philip. And for maybe the primary time in her lengthy reign, Elizabeth appears to be at a loss with regards to coping with her extremely standard daughter-in-law. The dissolution of Charles and Diana’s marriage is additional difficult by his mistress, Camilla Parker Bowles (Olivia Williams), and by Diana’s media savvy. Diana is, or was, the folks’s princess. And the queen merely can’t wrap her head round that.

Jonny Lee Miller additionally stars this season as Prime Minister John Major, with Flora Montgomery as Norma Major, Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret, Claudia Harrison as Princess Anne, James Murray as Prince Andrew, Emma Laird Craig as Sarah, Duchess of York, Sam Woolf as Prince Edward, Senan West as Prince William, Andrew Havill as Robert Fellowes, Natascha McElhone as Penelope Knatchbull, and Khalid Abdalla as Dodi Fayed.

The Crown was created by Peter Morgan, and the fifth season will premiere on Netflix on November 9.

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