The Crown (season 4) Watch on Netflix
| The Crown | |
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| Season 4 | |
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| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Netflix |
| Original release | 15 November 2020 |
| Season chronology | |
Premise[edit]
The Crown traces the life of Queen Elizabeth II from her wedding in 1947 to the present day.[4]
The fourth season covers the time period between 1979 and 1990
and is set during Margaret Thatcher's 11-year run as prime minister. Lady Diana Spencer is introduced early in the series.[5][6] Events depicted include the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer,[7] their 1983 tour of Australia and New Zealand,[8][9] the Falklands War,[10] Michael Fagan's break-in at Buckingham Palace,[11] Lord Mountbatten's funeral,[12] the Princess of Wales's appearance at the Barnardo's Champion Children Awards, and at the end of the series, Thatcher's departure from office, as well as the marital difficulties of Charles and Diana.[11]
Cast[edit]
Main[edit]
- Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II[13]
- Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Elizabeth's husband[14]
- Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret, Elizabeth's younger sister[15]
- Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom[16]
- Josh O'Connor as Prince Charles, Elizabeth, and Philip's eldest child and the heir apparent[17]
- Emma Corrin as Lady Diana Spencer, Charles's fiancée; later, as Diana, Princess of Wales, his wife[18]
- Marion Bailey as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Elizabeth II's mother[19]
- Erin Doherty as Princess Anne, Elizabeth, and Philip's second child and only daughter[20]
- Stephen Boxer as Denis Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher's husband
- Emerald Fennell as Camilla Parker Bowles, Charles's long-time lover[21]
Featured[edit]
- Charles Dance as Lord Mountbatten, Philip's uncle and a father figure to Charles[22]
- Tom Brooke as Michael Fagan, a man who entered Elizabeth's bedroom in Buckingham Palace in 1982[23]
- Richard Roxburgh as Bob Hawke, the prime minister of Australia
- Tom Burke as Dazzle Jennings, a friend, and confidant of Princess Margaret
- Nicholas Farrell as Michael Shea, the Queen's press secretary
- Claire Foy as young Queen Elizabeth, in 1947
Recurring[edit]
- Angus Imrie as Prince Edward, Elizabeth and Philip's youngest child[24]
- Tom Byrne as Prince Andrew, Elizabeth and Philip's third child[19]
- Freddie Fox as Mark Thatcher, son of Margaret Thatcher[19]
- Rebecca Humphries as Carol Thatcher, daughter of Margaret Thatcher[25]
- Charles Edwards as Lord Charteris of Amisfield, Private Secretary to the Queen[26]
- Richard Goulding as Edward Adeane, Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales, and son of former private secretary to the Queen Lord Adeane
- Penny Downie as Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, paternal aunt-by-marriage of Elizabeth and widow of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
- Sam Phillips as the Queen's equerry
- Letty Thomas as Virginia Pitman, one of Diana's flatmates
- Allegra Marland as Carolyn Pride, one of Diana's flatmates
- Flora Higgins as Anne Bolton, one of Diana's flatmates
- Geoffrey Breton as Mark Phillips, Princess Anne's husband
- Kevin McNally as Bernard Ingham, Downing Street Press Secretary
- Paul Jesson as Sir Geoffrey Howe, Chancellor of the Exchequer; later Foreign Secretary, Leader of the House of Commons, and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Nicholas Day as Jim Prior, Secretary of State for Employment
- Richard Syms as Lord Hailsham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
- Peter Pacey as Lord Soames, Leader of the House of Lords (and Sir Winston Churchill's son-in-law)
- Paul Bigley as John Nott, Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy
- Don Gallagher as Willie Whitelaw, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Guy Siner as Francis Pym, Secretary of State for Defence
- Georgie Glen as Ruth, Lady Fermoy, the Queen Mother's lady-in-waiting and Diana's maternal grandmother[27]
- Dugald Bruce-Lockhart as John Moore, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Judith Paris as Wendy Mitchell, Lady Diana's dance teacher
- Dominic Rowan as Charles Powell, Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister
- Andrew Buchan as Andrew Parker Bowles, Camilla's husband[26]
- Tony Jayawardena as Sir Shridath Ramphal, Commonwealth Secretary-General
- Alana Ramsey as Sarah Lindsay, a Buckingham Palace press officer, and wife of Major Hugh Lindsay
- Jessica Aquilina as Sarah Ferguson, fiancée and later wife of Andrew[19]
- Tom Turner as Patrick Jephson, Diana's private secretary
- David Phelan as Dickie Arbiter, Press Secretary to the Queen
- Lucas Barber-Grant as Prince William, Charles and Diana's elder son
- Arran Tinker as Prince Harry, Charles and Diana's younger son
- Daniel Fraser as the Queen's equerry
Notable guests[edit]
- Isobel Eadie as Lady Sarah Spencer / Lady Sarah McCorquodale, Lady Diana's elder sister[28]
- Harriet Benson as Lady Brabourne, daughter of Lord Mountbatten
- Valerie Sarruf as The Dowager Lady Brabourne, Lord Brabourne's mother
- Brandon Whitt as Timothy Knatchbull, Lord Mountbatten's grandson
- Evan Whitt as Nicholas Knatchbull, Lord Mountbatten's grandson
- Mark Carlisle as Lord Brabourne, Lord Mountbatten's son-in-law
- Patrick McBrearty as Francis McGirl
- Mark Brennan as Thomas McMahon
- Roy Sampson as Laurens van der Post
- Billy Mack as Ghillie
- Karina Orr as Anne-Charlotte Verney, French rally driver
- Pierre Philippe as Jean Garnier
- Oscar Foronda as Constantino Davidoff
- Douglas Reith as Admiral Henry Leach, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff
- Leanne Everitt as Christine Fagan, Michael Fagan's wife
- Elliott Hughes and Jasper Hughes as the infant Prince William
- Adam Fitzgerald as Graham Evans
- Naomi Allisstone as Hazel Hawke, Prime Minister Bob Hawke's wife
- Harry Treadaway as Roddy Llewellyn, Princess Margaret's former lover[29]
- Nancy Carroll as Lady Glenconner, Princess Margaret's lady-in-waiting[26]
- Richard Teverson as Lord Glenconner, husband of Lady Glenconner
- Gemma Jones as Penelope Carter, Princess Margaret's therapist[30]
- Trudie Emery as Katherine Bowes-Lyon, Elizabeth and Margaret's first cousin, niece of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and sister of Princess Anne of Denmark
- Pauline Hendrickson as Nerissa Bowes-Lyon, Elizabeth and Margaret's first cousin, niece of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and sister of Princess Anne of Denmark
- Eva Feiler as young Margaret Thatcher
- Tom Espiner as Simon Freeman, a Sunday Times reporter
- Peter Symonds as Hardy Amies, Royal Warrant holder as a designer to the Queen
- Jay Webb as Wayne Sleep
- Daniel Donskoy as James Hewitt, Princess Diana's lover
- Lin Sagovsky as Elspeth Howe, Geoffrey Howe's wife, who is Camilla's aunt
- Annette Badland as Dr. Margaret Heagarty, director of pediatrics at Harlem Hospital
- Nadia Williams as Veronica Middleton-Jeter, a social worker at Henry Street Settlement
- Alema Sousa as Linda Correa, a homeless mother of three
- Nick Wymer as Kenneth Clarke, Secretary of State for Health; later Secretary of State for Education
- Al Barclay as Michael Howard, Secretary of State for Employment
- Keith Chopping as Norman Lamont, Chief Secretary to the Treasury
- Martin Fisher as Peter Lilley, Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy
- Marc Ozall as John Major, Foreign Secretary; later Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Duncan Duff as Cecil Parkinson, Secretary of State for Transport
- Oliver Milburn as Chris Patten, Secretary of State for the Environment
- Michael Mears as Malcolm Rifkind, Secretary of State for Scotland
- Stephen Greif as Bernard Weatherill, Speaker of the House of Commons[31]
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