The end of The Crown: What did we really learn?
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The final season of the hit Netflix series The Crown comes out today. The show has reanimated events lost to history, and put our fascination with the royals into overdrive, but it has also made liberal use of its creative licence. So what has it taught us? And does it matter if drama plays with the truth of real lives?
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| 1:10.0 | The crown is a symbol of permanence. |
| 1:17.0 | It's something you are, not what you do. |
| 1:21.0 | Some portion of our natural selves is always lost. |
| 1:25.0 | But what about the life I put aside? The Crown is back for a sixth and final series today with all the usual outrage anticipation and excitement surrounding it. |
| 1:47.6 | We've had seven years of this. Royal drama dredged from history and splashed with cash on the screen. It's taken us through the Queen's life and times and the national events around her. |
| 1:59.0 | But has it overdone it on the sometimes very liberal use of creative license. |
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