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 collection.
Olivia Colman and Claire Foy have reprised the position of Queen Elizabeth II to flank Imelda Staunton in among the Netflix present’s ultimate scenes.
Directed by the returning Stephen Daldry, the concluding episode options the Queen making preparations for “Operation London Bridge,” the codename for her dying and funeral.
Staunton’s monarch can also be contemplating abdicating the throne and is visited by apparitions of her youthful self as she grapples with the thought.
Colman and Foy return to supply their knowledge earlier than the curtain is able to fall on the lavish collection 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 mentioned 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 amazing homage to the monarch. It’s grand, sweeping, and emotional. It’s a type of movies that got here collectively,” he mentioned.
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 folks me, seeing that determine, that form,” she mentioned. “We had been thrown off our axis, there’s little doubt about it.”
