 light. 'King Charles and the Queen consort will be very concerned about what The Crown shows,' royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams tells Metro.co.uk. 'At the moment, they're riding on the crest of a certain amount of popularity for obvious reasons. 'With the Queen no longer with us, Charles has made a strong start – he's shown his amazing physicality going to various parts of the kingdom after her death. But now, reminding everyone what happened in the 1990s, obviously this is the last thing that the royal family want.' Despite Queen Elizabeth II's ongoing health problems, The Crown has never shied away from more uncomfortable plotlines for the royals – nor have they denied embellishing some of the more contentious stories. History seemingly provides writer Pete){kind=link}
NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
As she stands amongst the rubble of her once grand castle, Imelda Staunton’s Queen Elizabeth II looks particularly small.
She surveys the damage in her large duffle coat, her face etched with sadness. She is alone, vulnerable, in the ruins of her home.
It’s a powerful image to tease the fifth season of prestige Netflix drama, The Crown; the charred ruins of Windsor Castle, symbolic of a crumbling monarchy facing crisis.
The latest series of the hit show will document the late Queen’s infamous ‘annus horribilis’ of 1992, as well as other events of the nineties that shaped the future of the royals – most notably, the break-up of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, and the subsequent media fall out.