Netflix has confirmed that the fourth season of its hit series The Crown will premiere on the platform on 15 November – and it promises a whole lot of action. This season is highly-anticipated because it introduces Emma Corrin as Princess Diana.
The trailer gives fans a glimpse into Diana and Charles relationship as well as their spectacular 1981 royal wedding.
“Something as important as the monarchy simply cannot be allowed to fail,” Olivia Colman’s Queen Elizabeth narrates in the trailer which also gives viewers a glimpse of the monarch on horseback, Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher and Princess Diana walking into Westminster Abbey in her famous wedding gown.
Season four will pick up in the late 1970s and follow the Queen and Thatcher’s relationship as well as the ill-fated romance and marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
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“We all have a set position on the dynamic between Charles and Diana,” Josh O’Connor, who plays Prince Charles says as he dissects the relationship of the royal couple. “It’s been great to have the ability to either fight against that or, at times, acknowledge it and also to challenge any question of, ‘Did he ever love her?’ Personally I think he must have done. There’s a wealth of layers and richness to Charles and Diana, and I loved seeking that out.”
Olivia Coleman, who plays Queen Elizabeth II in the third and fourth seasons of the series adds that there has been a lot of pressure with this role. “There is much more pressure when you’re playing someone who is still living, and you have this fear that they’re watching it and won’t like it,” she says. “You’re thinking, ‘Oh my God, what if Queen Elizabeth II ¬watches the series and sees me? Perhaps she will think that my interpretation is completely wrong. She’s going to change channels.”
The Crown returns for a fourth season on 15 November on Netflix.
