The long-awaited premiere of the fifth season of The Crown made a lot of noise this fall. Fans of the project doubted whether it was worth waiting for the release of the sequel, because until recently the whole of Great Britain mourned the departure of Queen Elizabeth II. However, the showrunners of Netflix decided not to delay it any longer and presented the fifth season. And it produced the effect of an exploding bomb.
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A lot of controversy has been plot and the selection of actors for the main roles of the fifth “Crown”. Since time does not stand still in the series, the characters must also change in appearance. We have already seen how Claire Foy and Olivia Colman played the Queen, and Matt Smith and Tobias Menzies played Prince Philip and so on. We’ll talk about why viewers criticize the cast of the new season of The Crown for another time.
Interestingly, with an abundance of criticism, many who watched the continuation of the series about the royal family of Britain were satisfied with Leslie Manville, who embodied the image of Princess Margaret. It is worth noting here that throughout all the seasons of The Crown, this heroine often remained a favorite with the audience. And it doesn’t matter at all who exactly played the sister of Elizabeth II.
“Among the Windsors, there have always been brilliant and boring,” says Prince Philip in the third season of “The Crown”, arguing about what distinguishes his wife the Queen and Princess Margo, as her relatives called her. It is worth noting that the statement of the serial Duke of Edinburgh described the two sisters as accurately as possible. Elizabeth, because of her status, has always lived under the yoke of rules and duties, and was also, according to some people, boring. Another thing is the brilliant Princess Margaret, nicknamed at one time the English rose.
The youngest daughter of King George VI always aspired to fame, but was forced to exist in the shadow of her crowned sister. Margot compensated for her position with a noisy lifestyle. She was a frequenter of secular parties, where she invariably found herself in the spotlight. And this feature of the princess is perfectly shown in The Crown. Unless in the fifth season, the creators decided to write a more dramatic storyline for Margaret, in which there was no place for wild parties.
For the royal family, there would be no more ideal representative than Margot, if not for the unpredictable and often explosive nature of the princess. She easily kept her face in public, listening with interest to the people around her … And in the next minute she could give out something that would offend the interlocutor. Many feared this trait of Margaret.
The fate of the only sister of Elizabeth II was tragic, and this was also reflected in The Crown. Instead of shining in public, the princess dreamed of spending her whole life with her loved one. As luck would have it, the “English rose” gave her heart to the royal stableman Peter Townsend, who was 15 years older, married and raised two children. Freed from the bonds of marriage, the courtier asked for the hand of his beloved, but Elizabeth, who had just ascended the throne, did not allow it, fearing for the image of the monarchy.
Princess Margaret in The Crown loved to kiss a glass. And she did it with an enviable frequency at any time of the day. Especially in the third season of the project, Margo abused alcohol. In real life, the princess also did not shun drinking. The queen’s sister got out of bed only at noon and before dinner she always asked for a glass of intoxicant. At three o’clock Margaret was invited to lunch, during which she drank half a bottle of wine. Of course, in the evenings, the princess disappeared at social events, and there champagne flowed like a river, without passing a glass of Margot.
They say that it was because of alcohol and a hectic lifestyle that Margaret lost her beauty early and died. The last statement is incorrect, since according to official information, the cause of death of the princess was a stroke. However, as for the once brilliant appearance of Margo, there is no need to argue here. This is especially well noticed in the “Crown”. Already in the fourth season, the make-up artists did a great job on the appearance of actress Helena Bonham Carter to show how her blue-blooded heroine begins to change. And already in the fifth season, the “English rose” of the Windsors completely passed.
Photo source: frame from the series “Crown”, Legion-Media, frame from the series “Crown”, Legion-Media