Episode 1: Persona Non Grata

The Crown: The Official Podcast

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4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

As Princess Diana and the boys set off for St Tropez for a holiday courtesy of Mohamed Al Fayed, Prince Charles plans a glittering fiftieth birthday party at Highgrove that he hopes the Queen will attend. Fayed, too, is in strategizing mode. Unbeknownst to Diana, he hopes to engineer a romance between the Princess and his son, Dodi. But with a small complication: Dodi himself is already engaged to someone else. In the opening episode of the series, Edith Bowman speaks with Writer and Creator Peter Morgan, Director Alex Gabassi, Head of Research Annie Sulzberger, and talks with the actor portraying the final iteration of Queen Elizabeth, Imelda Staunton. The Crown: The Official Podcast is produced by Netflix and Sony Music Entertainment, in association with Left Bank Pictures. Host: Edith Bowman Guests: Peter Morgan, Alex Gabassi, Annie Sulzberger, Imelda Staunton

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0:00.0	You'll have a house full of other 50 year old youngsters.
0:04.0	Why would you want you decrepit old mother there?
0:07.0	I think you know why.
0:08.0	I'm quite apart from the fact that you improve any occasion with your presence.
0:14.0	Your attendance not only as my mother, but
0:18.0	symbolically as Queen would be transformative for Camilla.
0:21.0	She will never be fully embraced by the public until she has your
0:25.1	approval. But how can I possibly give my approval when I don't approve? It's
0:30.0	nothing personal I'm sure she's very nice. Rather more than that. It's a matter of principle.
0:36.7	Two perfectly good marriages, to perfectly happy families have been broken up by this.
0:42.0	Love, mummy? I don't. broken up by this.
0:45.0	Love, mummy, love? I don't want to debate this any longer.
0:46.0	I'm going to be in Derbyshire.
0:50.0	Now, was there anything else because I think this one could really use my attention.
0:54.0	Thank you.
0:57.0	Welcome to the Crown, the official podcast. I'm Edith Bowman and I'm very
1:08.2	excited to be back once again with a new season of the podcast to follow the sixth season of the Netflix original series
1:15.8	The Crown. We'll follow the show episode by episode taking you behind the scenes of the
1:22.1	final season of this epic drama with the hugely
1:25.6	talented creatives involved with everyone from the directors and the research team to
1:31.0	the dialect and voice coach and of course writer and creator Peter Morgan.
1:37.0	Across this season I'll sit down with cast members from Emmel de Staunton to Dominic West, Elizabeth de Bicke to Salim Dal.
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