Everyone at the post office is delighted with a new profile man, which they feel to be an elegant reflection of Her Majesty's transition from young woman to...

Old Bet? A mother of four and settled sovereign.

The postmaster general himself commented that the two images, the young and the slightly older queen are almost identical.

Postmaster Bevins is very kind.

He's also a bare-faced liar.

Just the tiniest changes in the hair.

The great many changes.

But there we are.

Age is rarely kind to anyone.

Nothing one can do about it.

One just has to get on with it.

Welcome to the Crown, the official podcast.

My name's Edith Bowman and this is the podcast for the third season of the Netflix original series The Crown.

This podcast will follow the show episode by episode taking you behind the scenes, speaking with many of the talented people involved

and diving deep into the stories.

It's been two years since season two ended. The entire cast has changed and season three will be under

plenty of scrutiny from its highly devoted audience. There's a lot at stake and I spoke to show creator Peter Morgan who is anxiously awaiting the public reactions to season 3.

I can't bear this part. If only we could just make these films and never have to show them. I mean not because the moment where it goes out in the scrutiny and it's nerve-wracking.

Today we're talking about episode one titled Olding. In the 50s the KGB opened an

agent recruitment file on future British Prime Minister Harold Wilson giving

him the code name Old, hence the title.

We'll be discussing events brought up in the episode,

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