Season five of The Crown opens with an old newsreel of the Queen christening the royal yacht Britannia in the 1950s. The film is fuzzy; the clothes are period-perfect. It could be a video of the real Queen Elizabeth II - but in this version, Claire Foy is standing there instead and the whole thing has been scripted by Peter Morgan.
Welcome to the world of the Crown, where the line between fact and fiction is increasingly blurred and controversy reigns. Anticipation has been at fever-pitch for weeks as an entirely new cast take the helm of Netflix’s flagship show, which landed on the streamer yesterday.
