“In the first two episodes before she becomes Queen,” said Foy, “I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armor to cope. Morgan then created his hit biographical Netflix series, “The Crown” (2016), which made a star of Claire Foy. They reunited for a West End play, “The Audience” (2013), which imagined Elizabeth II’s weekly meetings with the various Prime Ministers who came and went during her reign. It’s no wonder that neither she nor Morgan wanted to stop there. For her lead performance, Helen Mirren won an Oscar, a BAFTA, and a Golden Globe. She experienced doubt, confusion and isolation, and a gnawing fear that she might have fallen out of touch with her subjects. The film was hardly irreverent, but it allowed Elizabeth II to be a human being, rather than a waxwork. Directed by Stephen Frears and written by Peter Morgan, this small-scale British film followed the Royal Family as it was rocked by the death of the sovereign’s former daughter-in-law, Princess Diana, in 1997. ‘The Crown’ Season 6 First Look: Netflix Royal Family Series Enters the William & Kate Eraīefore “A Question of Attribution,” Elizabeth II had been caricatured in the likes of “The Naked Gun” (1988) and the “Spitting Image” satirical puppet show, but it was her scandal-prone relations who were treated to serious, long-form dramas: in a BBC film, “The Queen’s Sister” (2005), Lucy Cohu played Princess Margaret as a snooty, hedonistic hot mess. And yet, despite the proliferation of these portrayals, it’s remarkable how respectful they have been. It now feels as if every actress in the country has taken their turn to put on a crown and try out a cut-glass accent. Even as recently as 1991, when Prunella Scales starred in a BBC film of Alan Bennett’s National Theatre play “A Question Of Attribution,” Bennett said “it still feels quite bold to portray her in the flesh.” And the practice was still contentious enough in 2020 for the UK’s then Culture Secretary, Oliver Dowden, to ask Netflix to put a disclaimer on screen before every episode of “ The Crown,” explaining that the show was not actually a documentary.īut like so much else during Elizabeth II’s uniquely long reign, the protocol changed to a degree that would have been unimaginable when she was crowned in 1953. Raucous historical romps about Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were all very well, but showing what a living king or queen got up to behind closed palace doors? That was another, almost treasonous matter. Queen Elizabeth II was the first British monarch to become a film and television character while she was still on the throne.
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