The Crown is back for a fifth series, with fans of the show sinking their teeth into the events and scandals that shrouded the Royal Family in the 1990s. As the Netflix series is a 'fictionalised dramatisation' of real situations, viewers are being shown a sometimes exaggerated or entirely fictionalised recollection of events, which can vastly differ from what really happened between the years of 1991 and 1997.
One of the historical moments that features in the fifth series of the drama is the Queen's memorable 'Annus Horribiliis' speech, with episode four of the series bearing the name of the unforgettable Ruby Jubilee speech, which she read in November 1992. With just weeks to go before the end of the year, the Queen reflected on the scandals that had shaken the Royal Family over the course of the months leading up to the speech.
The speech was read by the Queen at Guildhall to celebrate 40 years of the Queen's reign on the anniversary of her Accession on November 24, 1992. However, the words read out by the late monarch were far from celebratory, with one of the most memorable lines said by Her Majesty during the speech being: "1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure."
