‘The Crown’ Season 6, Part 2 Review: Getting Back to Granny
The final episodes of Peter Morgan’s Emmy-winning epic make a marked return to what the story knows best: the woman beneath the crown.
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The final episodes of Peter Morgan’s Emmy-winning epic make a marked return to what the story knows best: the woman beneath the crown.
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To close the show’s six-season run, the episodes open in 1997 and depict a heartthrob prince, an offensive party costume, several deaths and a marriage.
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As the Netflix series depicting the royal family concludes, it’s time to hand out some superlatives.
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In the sixth season, Princess Margaret suffers a series of strokes that shatter her glamorous exterior. “She doesn’t know how to function,” said Lesley Manville, who plays the role.
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After 60 Episodes, Peter Morgan Says Goodbye to ‘The Crown’
Morgan’s opulent Netflix show about the British royal family set new standards for prestige TV. With the final season ending, he’s amazed he’s pulled it off.
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‘The Crown’: Playing Prince Harry, the Royal Black Sheep
Luther Ford, a film student, had never acted in a big-budget production before being cast as the royal family’s most divisive recent figure in the Netflix show’s final season.
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Who Is the Unknown Playing Kate Middleton in ‘The Crown’?
Meg Bellamy was working at Legoland when she was chosen to play Britain’s future queen in the Netflix series. Now she’s on the brink of stardom.
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Elizabeth Debicki Hasn’t Let Go of Princess Diana
“I’m still maybe a bit emotionally stuck in,” said the actress, who portrays the princess’s final days in the last season of “The Crown.”
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‘The Crown’: Behind the Photo of an Embrace That Changed Princess Diana’s Life
In the show, Mohamed al-Fayed sends the photographer Mario Brenna to capture shots of Diana and al-Fayed’s son, Dodi, on vacation. The portrayal is inaccurate, Brenna says.
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The British actor excels at playing reserve, and what roils beneath, on “The Crown.” And now he brings that stoicism to “The Hunt,” onstage in Brooklyn.
By Alexis Soloski
Bonhams is selling hundreds of costumes and props from “The Crown,” including a horse-drawn carriage, robes of state and the queen’s bed.
By Alex Marshall
Less than 30 years after her death, fictional reincarnations of Diana are everywhere. But even icons deserve more time to rest in peace.
By Jesse Green
The series’s end was less intriguing than the real future of monarchy.
By Ross Douthat
Un actor que no se parece al rey Carlos, el vestido negro de la venganza y el fantasma de la princesa Diana. Aquí ofrecemos algunos aciertos y errores de la serie.
By Sarah Lyall
Netflix’s sprawling drama has never been about revealing anything new, but instead speaks to several furtive truths about the British monarchy.
By Jason Okundaye
“The Crown” packed plenty of pageantry, family drama and royal protocol into six seasons, but how well do you remember it all? Take this quiz to find out.
By Tala Safie and Eleanor Stanford
The antics of the royal family might seem easy to dismiss. But they still wield a lot of power over us.
By Arianne Chernock
Su imagen con Dodi al-Fayed en el mar Mediterráneo tiene un papel central en la sexta temporada. Mario Brenna, el fotógrafo que la tomó, dice que la descripción de la serie es “completamente inventada”.
By Alex Marshall
The actor has worked steadily since breaking out as a young Princess Diana in “The Crown.” Corrin’s latest role is as an amateur sleuth in “A Murder at the End of the World.”
By Alexis Soloski
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