 to where it was, and all the accompanying jokes about wear and tear. 'It just lent itself naturally to a doctor's surgery and a checkup. 'You just see what's happened to skin, what's happened to feet, what's happened to weight.' Meanwhile, Staunton admitted that she had to let go of concerns that she did not look or sound like the late Queen and focus on 'the essence' of the character. 'All you try to get is an essence,' she said. 'Because you will go, 'I don't look anything like her' - get rid of that. 'I don't sound anything like' - get rid of that. 'The added weight - as if you needed any more - were not only the original people who we are trying to portray, but then everyone else who has portrayed them before. 'So you have to go through that and accept it and look at it and fear for your life and then that goes away and you just go forward. 'And also, no doubt about it, you are served with such good writing, so that is most of your work done for you.' 'You can see how hard they're fighting - the PR' The new series rakes over every twist and turn of the late Queen's 'Annus Horribilis'. However, Mr Morgan suggested that the Buckingham Palace spin machine of today is much more aware of the need to keep the institution at arm's length from family drama. He said that in the early 1990s, it felt like the Royal family was in 'real crisis'. 'The thing about the monarchy is if the family is in crisis, then it naturally spills over,' he added. 'And you can see nowadays how hard they're fighting - the PR - to keep the monarchy away from the Royal family.'){kind=link}
Season five of the high-profile Netflix drama depicts an impatient Prince Charles plotting against his mother
The Crown’s storyline about an impatient Prince of Wales plotting against his mother was inspired by actor Dominic West’s “powerful” performance, it has emerged.
Peter Morgan, the writer of the Netflix drama, said the way in which both West, who plays Prince Charles, and Imelda Staunton, who plays the late Queen, portrayed their characters shaped the tone of the fifth series.
Mr Morgan was speaking on The Crown’s official podcast, released on Wednesday, to mark the launch of the new season.
He said that Staunton had “a different energy” to Olivia Colman, who played the younger monarch in previous seasons, and was “more naturally vulnerable.”