The Crown made a triumphant return to Netflix in December 2017, with season two picking up where season one left off.
Personal relationships and political crises collide as Queen Elizabeth II’s reign moves through the 1950s into the Swinging Sixties.
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However, sorting the fact from the fiction in Netflix’s lavish series can be a complicated business, with truth about the royal family’s private lives hard to pin down.
Find out more about the key historical events and dramatic relationships featured in The Crown seasons one and two, as the Netflix series reveals more about this most intriguing of families.
The history of The Crown season two
Was Prince Philip unfaithful?
- What was the Suez Crisis and why did it bring down Prime Minister Anthony Eden?
- Who was Prime Minister Harold Macmillan?
- Who was Prince Philip’s right hand man Mike Parker?
What was Prince Charles like as a young boy – and did he really hate his time at school?
- How accurate is The Crown’s story of the Queen’s Christmas Speech?
- The Crown creator Peter Morgan: I used to be anti monarchy – now I’m a royalist
What was Princess Margaret’s lover Antony Armstrong Jones really like?
The history of The Crown season one
The Crown: how to sort the facts from the fiction in Netflix’s royal drama
- Royal historian Robert Lacey casts a critical eye over the stories – and occasional flights of fancy – of The Crown’s first series. Read more
- Prince Philip will be ‘centre stage’ as his marriage to the Queen is put under strain in season two
- What was Prince Philip really like as a young man?
The true story of Princess Margaret’s ‘forbidden love’ for Peter Townsend
- How accurate is The Crown’s portrayal of the royal affair?
- Vanessa Kirby: Princess Margaret was the Princess Diana of her day
- The Queen’s early years – and how she fell in love with Prince Philip
What really happened to Winston Churchill’s controversial portrait?
- Season one tells the tale of a lost painting by artist Graham Sutherland, hated by the prime minister – but what really happened to it? Read more
- Discover the real Great Smog that brought London to a standstill
- Did Winston Churchill’s secretary Venetia Scott from The Crown really exist?
The Crown latest news | Everything you need to know about season three and beyond
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