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UK former premier Tony Blair has added his voice to those saying The Crown is using the fifth season to present events in the 1990s on screen as real, when in fact they have been invented.  Tony Blair was the country's prime minister in the summer months of 1997 leading up to the death of Princess…

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of the fifth season of The Crown, which debuts all 10 episodes November 9 on Netflix. "Don't want to break any rules," exclaims Imelda Staunton's Queen Elizabeth II about halfway through the fifth and penultimate season of The Crown. The latest incarnation…

EXCLUSIVE: There's anxiety behind the scenes on Netflix drama The Crown with stars, creatives and producers "on edge" as preparations are made to recreate the fateful moments that led to the death of Princess Diana in a car crash in Paris twenty-five years ago. The majority of the scenes will be shot…

UPDATED: A source at Netflix has confirmed that filming on The Crown is being temporarily suspended. They said: "As a mark of respect, filming on The Crown was suspended today. Filming will also be suspended on the day of Her Majesty The Queen's funeral." PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE, September 8: Following the death Thursday…

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Morgan, creator of award-winning The Crown, has shifted focus from royals to zoom in on Russian oligarchs as the topic of his new stage play Patriots. It has been fast-tracked to have its world premiere at London's Almeida Theatre in July with Tom Hollander (The Night Manager) cast to portray Boris…

Netflix’s The Crown is nominated for 24 Primetime Emmy Awards including Outstanding Drama Series for the fourth season of the series detailing the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. The season covers the whirlwind romance between Prince Charles (Josh O'Connor) and Lady Diana Spencer (Emma Corrin), as well as Margaret…

After a strong showing at the Golden Globes earlier this year, The Crown will be hoping for similar success at the Emmys in September. Netflix’s cultural phenomenon all starts with the words of Peter Morgan, who has penned every single episode of the royal saga. Below is his script for the Season 4 finale of The…

The Crown is having another royal evening – winning best drama series for the second time. The Netflix series won best drama series in 2017 and has triumphed again, albeit with a new cast. The drama beat Lovecraft Country, The Mandalorian, Ozark and Ratched to win the top TV drama prize. Creator Peter Morgan had a…

Emma Corrin was not only thrilled by the six Golden Globe nominations for The Crown announced on Wednesday, including her own for playing Princess Diana, but said she’s also excited to see what Kristen Stewart with do with that same Royal role in Pablo Larrain’s new film, Spencer, and how Elizabeth Debicki will pick…

Helena Bonham Carter, who plays Princess Margaret in The Crown, has weighed in on the debate surrounding the Netflix show's dramatic interpretation of real-life events involving the British Royal Family. Speaking on the show's official podcast, Bonham Carter said she thought the series had a "moral responsibility" to…

Peter Morgan has changed his mind on bringing the curtain down on The Crown after five seasons, meaning that the Netflix show will now run for six seasons. Creator Morgan said: “As we started to discuss the storylines for Series 5, it soon became clear that in order to do justice to the richness and complexity of the…

When it first premiered in 2016, Peter Morgan's Netflix series The Crown was an instant smash. Aiming to tell the epic story of Queen Elizabeth II's record-breaking spell as Britain's longest-serving monarch, starting with her marriage in 1947 and seeing her reign through to the earliest 20th Century, it caught the…