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Designs on The Crown

Series Three will pick up the Royal story in 1964, when David Sassoon, the son of Iraqi Jewish immigrants, became the first — and arguably most prominent — of a coterie of Jewish fashion designers to 'dress' most senior Royal women

October 28, 2019 10:29
Olivia Coleman and Tobias Menzies take on the roles of the Queen and Prince Philip in the latest season of The Crown
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For anyone, like me, addicted to the superb Netflix series, The Crown, the good news is that we will be able to get our next fix quite soon.

Series Three of this elegant and deliciously authentic-seeming chronicle of the British royal family will be on our screens on November 17.

In the hands of writer Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon), director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) and producer Andy Harries (The Queen), the personal intrigues, controversial romances, political rivalries and other events of the period were all compellingly realised.

Now Olivia Colman takes the reins as Queen Elizabeth, with Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip. Helena Bonham-Carter will play a more mature Princess Margaret while Ben Daniels will take the role of the Princess’s husband, the Earl of Snowdon. One storyline so far ignored is the Jewish ancestry of Lord Snowdon, photographer husband of Princess Margaret.