To many a royal follower’s chagrin, Netflix’s The Crown ended last December after six seasons and seven years—but if it were up to showrunner Peter Morgan, it would have ended far sooner.
Morgan said, per The Hollywood Reporter, that after Queen Elizabeth died at age 96 in September 2022, “I didn’t really want to do it anymore,” he said while speaking at a Netflix event. Intriguingly, Morgan said he always thought of the show “as a story about the two houses—Buckingham Palace and Downing Street—and I never really thought of it as a story about the royal family. But, of course, that’s all anybody thinks it’s about, the royal family, whereas I think of it is about the two houses.”
