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Plans to repair castle where woman was murdered by millionaire take a step forward

There are proposals to convert part of the huge site at Pencoed Castle, near Llanmartin, to housing

Wales Online

Does it really matter if a drama based on a true story makes things up?

Recently, I rewatched two classic movies from the 1980s, The Untouchables and The Elephant Man. On the surface, they couldn’t be less alike, yet they have quite a lot in common.

Irish Independent

‘I don’t think they should carry on’: Helena Bonham Carter says Netflix should have ended The Crown in 2020

‘I should be careful,’ show’s former star said while sharing controversial view

The Independent UK

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Mary McNamara: It's a blast watching Harry and Meghan beat the press at its own game

Revenge is a dish best served cold, over many courses and paid for by someone else.

Los Angeles Times

‘Diana is packing’: The Crown ends on a bittersweet note to set up the next, and last season

Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki, who plays the late Princess of Wales in The Crown, opens up on the final episode.

The New Daily

"Last Week Tonight" versus The Crown

In last Sunday's scathing episode, John Oliver questions our defense of British royalty and all wealth worship

Salon

Schoolies becomes 'quiet-palooza' in Victorian coastal towns, as students look elsewhere

With exams completed and university applications filed away, this year's graduating class of 2022 faces one last question: what are they going to do for schoolies?

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"The Crown" gives Charles a glow-up

Queen Elizabeth II was a monarch for the TV age, but once her son broke Diana's heart the camera's cut wasn't kind

Salon

The Crown’s Prince Andrew actor explains how he empathised with disgraced royal

James Murray portrays Prince Andrew in the new season set during the Nineties, amid the royal’s divorce from Sarah Ferguson

The Independent UK

The Crown Is Losing Its Shine

A season about the most salacious era in recent royal history shouldn’t feel so sedate.

The Atlantic

The royals need to get over how they’re depicted in The Crown

The Crown loves a metaphor. In the latest season, everyone is wondering what to do with the clapped-out royal yacht Britannia. It’s the Nineties, and the monarchy is looking a bit worn out, too. “It shouldn’t come as a surprise she’s falling apart, she’s a creature of another age… in…

Irish Independent

The Crown season 5 review: Netflix’s royals back with all the poise of Thunderbirds puppets

It might be time for us to accept that The Crown (Netflix) no longer works. It used to. The first two seasons, with Claire Foy (excellent) as the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II and Matt Smith (likewise) as Prince Philip, were genuinely terrific.

Irish Independent

Tell-alls, tantrums and tiaras: How The Crown tackles the royals’ messiest period

There is, Imelda Staunton crisply observes as I speak to her on Zoom, “a great comfort” in The Crown, and how it “puts history in context” and helps us to “understand the past”. And it’s hard to disagree with the show’s new Queen.

Irish Independent

‘The Crown’ review: All My Windsors returns for Season 5 with divorce drama between Charles and Diana

The 1990s were an especially rough decade for the British royal family, a time filled with scandals about (but not exclusive to) Charles and Diana, the Prince and Princess of Wales, whose faltering marriage finally broke down for good and in public. This is where Season 5 of “The Crown”…

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The Independent UK

The royals need to get over how they’re depicted in The Crown

Everyone from Dame Judi Dench to ‘unnamed friends of the Queen’ has lambasted the new season of the Netflix smash, clutching their pearls over its apparent evils. But, Jessie Thompson argues, they all seem to be missing the point, and the way the show humanises our most ancient institution

Los Angeles Times

Why Britain is in an uproar over ‘The Crown’ — and why it’s a tempest in a teapot

The people of the United Kingdom are in the midst of a challenging moment.

Tribune News Service

What to stream: As 'The Crown' returns, where to find other depictions of Diana in the movies

The latest season of Netflix’s acclaimed series “The Crown,” which follows the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, debuts on Wednesday, just two months after the queen died at the age of 96. In this fifth season, created by Peter Morgan, the series has progressed to the 1990s, with…

The Independent UK

The Crown’s Prince Andrew actor explains how he empathised with disgraced royal

James Murray portrays Prince Andrew in the new season set during the Nineties, amid the royal’s divorce from Sarah Ferguson

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Netflix's controversial hit The Crown returns to chronicle Prince Charles and Diana's marriage breakdown

The monarchy has entered a new era, casting an even brighter spotlight on The Crown. Here's everything you need to know about the controversial fifth season.

The Independent UK

'The Crown’ returns to blur the line between royals, fiction

“The Crown” returns Wednesday after a two-year absence from Netflix

Asharq Al-Awsat

New Season of 'The Crown' Set to Air after Backlash

The latest season of "The Crown" hits the small screen next week, with streaming giant Netflix adding a disclaimer after a furor over untrue storylines. Series Five, which airs on Wednesday just over two months after the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the accession of her son King Charles…

The Guardian - UK

We took care to reproduce banned Di interview accurately – Crown actor

Prasanna Puwanarajah, who is playing the disgraced BBC broadcaster, on how the Netflix drama approached the infamous Panorama programme

The Independent UK

The Crown star Lesley Manville says she thought she’d been chosen for Queen Elizabeth II role

‘Phantom Thread’ star had reservations about playing Princess Margaret

The Guardian - UK

The Crown season five review – it’s time for this bitty, boring show to end forever

Its cast is cartoonish, the plot is packed with dull speeches and multiple episodes could have been binned entirely. The royal drama has never been less relevant

The Guardian - UK

Elizabeth Debicki on playing Diana: ‘I never watched The Crown and thought, this is a documentary’

She found stardom in The Night Manager and Tenet but how will she cope with the attention that comes with playing the most scrutinised woman of all time?

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