Episode 9: Couple 31

The Crown: The Official Podcast

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🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

As a consequence of the Panorama interview, the Queen writes to both Prince Charles and Princess Diana requesting that they divorce as swiftly as possible. The ensuing divorce process becomes quite heated and so the Queen asks the Prime Minister, John Major, to act as an intermediary between the two warring parties. But when Prince Charles employs a young press advisor (Mark Bolland) to help Camilla whose life has become a living hell as a result of Diana's interview, things turn a corner. When the divorce papers are signed, Charles pays Diana a visit where they dissect what went wrong in the marriage but things inevitably turn sour with both parties left in a stalemate once more. In this episode, Edith Bowman meets Executive Producer Suzanne Mackie, Head of Research Annie Sulzberger, Director Christian Schwochow and the actor who plays Camilla Parker-Bowles, Olivia Williams. The Crown: The Official Podcast is produced by Netflix and Somethin’ Else, in association with Left Bank Pictures.

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0:00.0	Dearest Charles, Charles, dearest Diane.
0:10.0	I am writing to let you know that everyone is now of one mind.
0:16.0	The determination of your marriage is not only inevitable, but preferable. When you made your vows to each other on your wedding day,
0:28.0	it was an occasion that warmed millions of hearts around the world.
0:34.0	Fourteen years later, those vows lie shattered all around us. Welcome to the Crown The Official Podcast. I'm Edith Bowman and this is the show that follows the fifth season of the Netflix
0:55.2	series The Crown episode by episode. We'll be taking you behind the scenes
1:00.6	speaking to many of the creatives involved and diving deep into the stories.
1:06.0	Today we'll be talking about episode 9, couple 31.
1:11.0	Queen Elizabeth is devastated as she runs out of options over Charles and Diana's toxic marriage and asks him to divorce.
1:20.0	Hoping the Prime Minister can mediate peace in this painful breakup.
1:25.0	But will the Wilsies and the fractured royal family ever find closure?
1:30.0	And will Camilla ever be accepted by Charles's side?
1:35.0	We'll cover specific events and scenes that feature in this episode,
1:39.0	so if you haven't managed to watch episode 9 yet,
1:42.0	I suggest you do that now or very soon
1:46.3	coming up later we'll hear from Olivia Williams who plays Camilla Parker Bowles on the show
1:52.1	I feel that Camilla's wig is the kind of the pinnacle of
1:56.9	the crown's achievement over six seasons. So he's
2:15.0	tasked with masterminding the introduction of Camilla into public life.
2:20.0	We'll also hear from the director of this episode Christian Shrojo.
2:24.0	So what we did is a whole day we would shoot them cooking together, improvising a lot.
2:32.0	But first I spoke to executive producer on the crown, Suzanne Mackie.
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