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Spoiler Alert: This information story options particulars from Season 6 of The Crown
The Crown’s stirring finale has landed on Netflix — and there’s a shock for followers of the sequence.
Olivia Colman and Claire Foy have reprised the function of Queen Elizabeth II to flank Imelda Staunton in a few of the Netflix present’s closing scenes.
Directed by the returning Stephen Daldry, the concluding episode options the Queen making preparations for “Operation London Bridge,” the codename for her demise and funeral.
Staunton’s monarch can be contemplating abdicating the throne and is visited by apparitions of her youthful self as she grapples with the concept.
Colman and Foy return to supply their knowledge earlier than the curtain is able to fall on the lavish sequence with a shot of the three Queen’s in unison underneath the arches of Westminster Abbey.
They’re standing in entrance of a imaginative and prescient of the Queen’s coffin, a picture that has all of the extra efficiency after Her Majesty died final yr on the age of 96.
In an unique interview with Deadline, The Crown government producer Andy Harries stated the finale, titled Sleep, Dearie Sleep, is amongst his favourite episodes from the six seasons.
“It’s a really stunning piece of labor and is an incredible homage to the monarch. It’s grand, sweeping, and emotional. It’s a type of movies that got here collectively,” he stated.
Staunton advised BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday that it was emotional filming scenes as Queen Elizabeth on the day after her funeral.
“I filmed the following day after her funeral and I feel it was very unusual for the opposite individuals me, seeing that determine, that form,” she stated. “We had been thrown off our axis, there’s little question about it.”
