The Serie The crown, which tells the story of the royal family from the beginning of Elizabeth II’s reign until the 1980s, is once again enthralling Netflix subscribers. Since the queen’s death on September 8, viewing statistics have increased by 800% in the UK, compared to the previous weekend, notes the guardian this Tuesday, relaying data from Whip Media.
The phenomenon also concerns Australia, a Commonwealth kingdom, which still has the British monarch as head of state, but also France, where the royal family continues to fascinate. In France, the number of spectators multiplied by three, compared to the previous weekend.
Following the disappearance of the queen, Netflix suspended the shooting of the series, “as a show of respect”, “until the day of the funeral of her majesty the queen”.
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Three actresses succeed each other in the role of Isabel. Claire Foy plays the young queen, then Olivia Colman casts her when she’s fifty. Ultimately, viewers will discover Imelda Staunton as a more mature sovereign.
The Peter Morgan series may be a fiction, it is the series that most faithfully tells the daily life of the royal family. The first season begins with the 1947 wedding of Elizabeth and Philip, and chronicles the young woman’s debut as Queen of England.
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But it is especially the third and fourth seasons, which evoke in particular the meeting between Charles and Diana, and his triangular relationship with Camilla Shand, which angered the royal family.
So much so that the British government asked Netflix in 2020 to add a disclaimer to indicate that it was fiction. The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport thus feared “that a generation of viewers, who did not experience these events, take fiction as fact.”
It must be said that the series, which presents Charles in an unflattering light, has reignited hostility against the Prince of Wales, now King of England.
The royal family is now preparing for the broadcast of the fifth season, next November, which evokes dark years for the British monarchy, that of the separation of Charles and Diana, but also the wave of divorces within the family in the decade of the 90s.
The sixth season, which is currently filming, will follow the younger generation, William and Harry, in the 1990s.
Source: BFM TV
