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"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?

ABC News

"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

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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’ 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”…

Chicago Tribune

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

The Independent UK

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.

Los Angeles Times

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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…

Tribune News Service

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

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.

ABC News

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

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

The Independent UK

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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 Guardian - 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

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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?

The Independent UK

The royals need to get a grip about how they’re depicted in The Crown

The Guardian - UK

‘Tampongate’ was just ‘two middle-aged lovers being sweet’, says The Crown star

Dominic West, who plays then Prince of Wales in new series of the drama, says his views on incident changed after filming storyline

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Wales Online

Season 5 of Netflix hit The Crown brings ‘drama with a capital D’, says new cast

Imelda Staunton, Lesley Manville, Elizabeth Debicki and Dominic West to depict fateful events of the 1990s

Daily Mirror

The Crown's Dominic West feels 'deep sense of sympathy' for King Charles over 'Tampongate'

The now-King’s infamous phone call with the now-Queen Consort in 1989 was recorded by an amateur radio fan and will be portrayed 'sympathetically' in the upcoming series of The Crown

Los Angeles Times

A new Netflix notice reminds viewers, and Judi Dench, that 'The Crown' is fictional

Netflix, after recent criticism from actor Judi Dench and former British Prime Minister John Major, has finally added a disclaimer to "The Crown," or at least to the trailer for its upcoming season.

Daily Mirror

The King says 'the suspense is killing him' ahead of his Repair Shop episode

King Charles featured on a special episode of The Repair Shop to celebrate the BBC turning 100 years old. The Monarch invited the film crew to Dumfries House in Scotland for them to fix an 18th century clock

The New Daily

Judi Dench slams ‘cruelly unjust, damaging’ Crown story lines

British acting royalty Dame Judi Dench has weighed into the controversy surrounding the upcoming series of The Crown.

Autosport

Champions crowned at HSCC and BRSCC meetings

National champions were crowned up and down the country last weekend, as the Historic Sports Car Club and British Racing & Sports Car Club were in action at Silverstone and Snetterton

The Guardian - AU

The Crown creator rejects criticism show is ‘unkind’ to King Charles amid row over facts

Peter Morgan says he has ‘enormous sympathy’ for royal family, while Netflix reportedly pauses Harry and Meghan documentary over criticism

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