Final Season of ‘The Crown’ Will Feature an Unexpected Royal Wedding
Peter Morgan’s reign is finally coming to an end. Netflix has announced it will premiere the final season of its hit series The Crown before the end of the year.
“After six seasons, seven years and three casts, The Crown comes to an end later this year,” the streaming service teased on social media along with a wedding invitation for Charles, the Prince of Wales and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall. Netflix added of the image, “Here’s a hint at what’s to come in our final season.”
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After six seasons, seven years and three casts, The Crown comes to an end later this year. Here’s a hint at what’s to come in our final season. pic.twitter.com/l6ilhYYA0C
— Netflix (@netflix) September 4, 2023
Netflix tends to air The Crown in November, so it’s likely season six will follow suit. Last year, Morgan, the show’s creator, announced that the series had paused the filming of the sixth season to mourn the Queen’s death.
“The Crown is a love letter to her and I’ve nothing to add for now, just silence and respect,” Morgan said in an email to Deadline. “I expect we will stop filming out of respect too.”
Since it began airing, The Crown has won 21 Emmy Awards, including outstanding drama series for its fourth season.
Three actresses have played the role of Queen Elizabeth throughout the show’s run: Claire Foy starred as a younger Elizabeth before becoming queen, Olivia Colman during her early years as monarch, and Imelda Staunton, who took on the role of the Queen for the show’s fifth season.
As the invitation in the social media post teases, Prince Charles (Dominic West) married his mistress Camilla Parker Bowles (Olivia Williams) in 2005 several years after the death of Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) in 1997. The series shot scenes of Diana’s fatal car crash in Paris, suggesting her death with be a prominent storyline. The new season will also depict the early relationship of Prince William and Kate Middleton, and Tony Blair’s stint as prime minister of the U.K.
In 2020, Morgan announced that six seasons would be needed to fully tell his story. “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 story we should go back to the original plan and do six seasons,” he said in a statement. “To be clear, Series 6 will not bring us any closer to present-day — it will simply enable us to cover the same period in greater detail.”
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