Netflix reveals premiere date for season five of The Crown

Questions over the future of The Crown has been settled. Netflix today revealed when fans can watch the new season.

Despite questions over whether Netflix would delay the release of the upcoming season of The Crown, the streamer has confirmed the series is coming in six weeks.

The fifth season of The Crown will premiere on November 9, Netflix revealed during its annual Tudum fan event.

Peter Morgan’s glossy royal drama will release all 10 episodes at once, just in time for royal watchers to inhale another instalment of Windsor antics.

The fifth season is set to be one of The Crown’s most eye-popping, set during the early 1990s and focused on the cataclysmic breakdown of Charles and Diana’s tumultuous marriage.

The Crown will debut season five on November 9.

A short video clip released to social media teases some of what to expect, featuring a scene intercut between Charles and Diana as they prepare to give separate high-profile TV interviews.

A voiceover intones, “There’s uproar in Britain after Prince Charles bared his soul to the nation but the Princess of Wales upstaged her husband speaking about her marriage, her life and her future” but it ends on, “This is becoming all-out war”.

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There was some speculation as to whether the upcoming series would be pushed back in the wake of Queen Elizabeth’s death, given it is to cover a turbulent period in the history of the royal family.

The season is to be especially challenging for Charles, resurfacing of the most salacious details of his and Diana’s separation, which was publicly played out for all to read, hear and see. Charles’ image was severely dented by the episode while Camilla was branded as “the other woman”.

The fifth season will feature an all-new cast, following the series’ tradition of ageing up the characters every two seasons.

Imelda Staunton will portray Queen Elizabeth with Elizabeth Debicki to play Diana and Dominic West as Charles. The cast also includes Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip, Olivia Williams as Camilla, Lesley Manville as Margaret, James Murray as Andrew, Emma Laird Craig as Fergie and Jonny Lee Miller as John Major.

The season will run from the early to mid-1990s but will end before Diana’s death, which will be covered in the sixth season.

Dominic West as Prince Charles.

The Crown was adapted from Morgan’s stage production The Audience, which charted the relationships between Elizabeth and UK Prime Ministers.

The series was to end after the fifth season, but Morgan was persuaded to extend it for one more chapter. The sixth season will take it up to the early 2000s, to the deaths of the Queen Mother and Margaret. Both women died in 2002.

The younger generation of royals will feature but it’s unlikely to be prominently. Newcomers Rufus Kampa and Meg Bellamy have been cast as university-age William and Kate.

There’s been no casting news for who will play a young Harry and it’s way too early in the chronology for Meghan to be part of the show.

The Crown paused production on its sixth season when Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8, as part of a long-established plan in the event of her death while the series was filming.

Morgan, who also penned the screenplay for The Queen starring Helen Mirren, wrote after Elizabeth’s death, “The Crown is a love letter to her and I’ve nothing to add for now, just silence and respect.”

The Crown streams in Australia on Netflix.

Originally published as Netflix reveals premiere date for season five of The Crown