Love and duty clash in the most expensive royal soap in history, The Crown

By Michael Idato
Updated October 28 2016 - 6:20pm, first published 10:47am
Claire Foy stars as Queen Elizabeth in Netflix series <i>The Crown</i>. Photo: Jason Bell/Netflix
Claire Foy stars as Queen Elizabeth in Netflix series <i>The Crown</i>. Photo: Jason Bell/Netflix
The Crown Season 1, the new Netflix series spared no expense in its filming. Photo: Alex Bailey/Netflix
The Crown Season 1, the new Netflix series spared no expense in its filming. Photo: Alex Bailey/Netflix
The Crown stars John Lithgow as Winston Churchill. Photo: Robert Viglasky/Netflix
The Crown stars John Lithgow as Winston Churchill. Photo: Robert Viglasky/Netflix
Queen Elizabeth's coronation in The Crown. Photo: Alex Bailey/Netflix
Queen Elizabeth's coronation in The Crown. Photo: Alex Bailey/Netflix
Queen Elizabeth II (Claire
Foy) with Prince Philip (Matt Smith)
in <i>The Crown</i>. Photo: Robert Viglasky/Netflix
Queen Elizabeth II (Claire Foy) with Prince Philip (Matt Smith) in <i>The Crown</i>. Photo: Robert Viglasky/Netflix

In a moment ripped from the history books, Britain's famously indefatigable Queen Mary offers her granddaughter, the newly minted Queen Elizabeth II, an ominous warning in the new Netflix series The Crown: "I have seen three great monarchies brought down through their failure to separate personal indulgences from duty," she says. "The Crown must win, must always win."

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