The Crown returned to Netflix last week for its fifth and penultimate season, as the hit drama depicts one of the most turbulent decades for the royal family in modern times. The 1990s was a tough time for Queen Elizabeth II, as her family was plagued by divorces, separations and scandals.
Many of the troublesome events took place in the same year, in 1992, a year the Queen herself described as “tumultuous.” On November 24, the monarch gave a now famous speech at Guildhall to mark her Ruby Jubilee in which she said: “1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure.
“In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an annus horribilis.”
