127 Fun Facts About The Crown

Who created and principally wrote 'The Crown'?

Peter Morgan created and principally wrote The Crown, produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix.

Elstree Studios, where much of the series was shot, is in which English town?

Elstree Studios sits in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire; sets for the palace private quarters and 10 Downing Street were built there for the first season.

In what year did 'The Crown' first premiere on Netflix?

The Crown premiered on Netflix on 4 November 2016; its first two episodes had screened in UK cinemas three days earlier.

Anton Lesser plays which prime minister in season two?

Anton Lesser plays Harold Macmillan, whose 1963 resignation in the wake of the Profumo affair closes season two.

Which actor portrayed Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 'The Crown'?

John Lithgow, an American a foot taller than the real Churchill, won the 2017 Emmy for the episode 'Assassins'.

Who played Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in the first two seasons of 'The Crown'?

Matt Smith plays Philip in the first two seasons, from the 1947 wedding to the 1964 birth of Prince Edward.

Which actress took over as Princess Margaret from Vanessa Kirby for seasons 3 and 4 of The Crown?

Helena Bonham Carter's seasons cover the princess's marriage breakdown and her affair with the much younger Roddy Llewellyn.

Royal biographer Robert Lacey worked on the series in what capacity?

Robert Lacey served as the show's historical consultant and defended its inventions by distinguishing historical truth from 'the larger truth about the past'.

Who was the first actor to play Prince Charles as an adult in The Crown, across seasons 3 and 4?

Josh O'Connor took over for the university and Camilla years and won an Emmy for the part; Dominic West played Charles in seasons 5 and 6.

Which actress won an Emmy as Queen Elizabeth II in the first two seasons of The Crown?

Claire Foy won the 2018 Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her final season as the young Queen.

In what year did Elizabeth marry Philip Mountbatten, shortly after the series opens?

Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten on 20 November 1947 at Westminster Abbey, and the series opens with that wedding.

Which cathedral stood in for Westminster Abbey in the coronation scenes?

Ely Cathedral doubled for Westminster Abbey in the wedding and coronation scenes, its nave standing in for the Abbey's in 'Smoke and Mirrors'.

Who plays King George VI in the first season?

Jared Harris plays King George VI, whose 1951 lung operation and death in February 1952 open the series and hand the throne to Elizabeth.

Which season of 'The Crown' covers the 1992 'Annus Horribilis'?

That season also takes in the Windsor Castle fire, the decommissioning of the royal yacht Britannia and the handover of Hong Kong.

Which actress plays Diana, Princess of Wales, in seasons five and six?

Elizabeth Debicki, the Australian, took the role for the divorce years and the 1997 death in Paris, and won a Golden Globe for it.

Which English city doubled as New York City in the series?

Manchester's streets doubled as New York City for the series' American scenes.

The first season reportedly cost at least how much, making it Netflix's most expensive drama at the time?

The first season reportedly cost at least £100 million, making it Netflix's most expensive drama to that point.

In season one, what event makes Elizabeth Queen while she is on a Commonwealth tour?

She learns the news in Kenya in 1952 and flies home as monarch; the season then follows her coronation and her clashes with Churchill.

Which actress plays Princess Margaret in the first two seasons?

Kirby was in negotiations for the part by May 2015 and later reprised it briefly; the role passed to older actresses every two seasons as the timeline moved on.

In season one, Stephen Dillane plays which artist whose portrait upsets the ageing Churchill?

Stephen Dillane plays Graham Sutherland, whose 1954 portrait Churchill loathed; Clementine had it secretly destroyed, a fate the episode 'Assassins' dramatises.

Which actress took over the role of Queen Elizabeth II for seasons three and four of The Crown?

Colman was cast in October 2017 and covers the Queen from the mid-1960s to 1990, winning an Emmy for the role.

Who portrayed Prince Philip in seasons three and four of the series?

Tobias Menzies was cast in March 2018 and plays Philip from the mid-1960s to 1990 in seasons three and four.

Which international crisis brings down the prime minister in season two?

The Suez Crisis of 1956 ended in humiliation for Britain and destroyed Anthony Eden, whose collapse season two charts in detail.

Which actress portrayed Camilla Parker Bowles in seasons three and four?

Emerald Fennell, who wrote and directed Promising Young Woman, plays the young Camilla Shand from her 1970s courtship with Charles through the Diana years.

Which actress took on the role of Queen Elizabeth II for the final seasons, five and six, of The Crown?

Staunton was announced in January 2020, and her seasons run from 1991 to 2005, taking in the annus horribilis and the death of Diana.

Who was cast as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, for seasons five and six of The Crown?

Pryce was cast in August 2020 and plays the duke into his eighties, including his friendship with Penny Knatchbull.

Which Prime Minister was portrayed by Gillian Anderson in season four?

Gillian Anderson plays Margaret Thatcher in season four, winning a Golden Globe and an Emmy for the role; their weekly audiences chart the two women's mutual incomprehension.

Which actor played Lord Mountbatten in seasons three and four of The Crown?

Greg Wise played the younger Mountbatten in the first two seasons; Dance took over as the ageing uncle who acts as a father figure to Charles.

Who portrayed Prime Minister John Major in season five of The Crown?

Jonny Lee Miller plays John Major, prime minister for the whole of season five's 1991-97 span, last seen handing over to Blair after the 1997 election.

Which actor played Prime Minister Tony Blair in seasons five and six of the series?

Bertie Carvel plays Tony Blair, whose 1997 landslide closes season five and who remains prime minister throughout season six.

Jeremy Northam plays which prime minister, the Queen's second, in the first two seasons?

Jeremy Northam plays Anthony Eden, whose premiership lasted under two years and ended in ill health and disgrace after the 1956 Suez debacle.

Which Welsh village's 1966 coal-tip school disaster draws the Queen's slow, criticised response in season three?

Aberfan's coal-tip collapse killed 116 children and 28 adults on 21 October 1966; the real Queen waited eight days before visiting the village.

Which American President visits Queen Elizabeth II in season two of The Crown?

John F. Kennedy, played by Dexter star Michael C. Hall, visits with Jackie in 'Dear Mrs. Kennedy', where Jackie's reported barbs needle the Queen into her 1961 trip to Ghana.

The final season ends with which 2005 event?

The series closes with the April 2005 wedding of Charles and Camilla at Windsor; the final episodes also take in the Golden Jubilee and the deaths of Margaret and the Queen Mother.

Diana's 1995 Martin Bashir interview, dramatised in season five, aired on which BBC programme?

The interview aired on BBC's Panorama on 20 November 1995; the 2021 Dyson inquiry found Bashir had used forged bank statements to secure it.

Which actress plays Princess Margaret in the final two seasons?

Manville was announced in July 2020 and plays the princess through her declining health and death, which the sixth season covers.

Which journalist's article critical of the monarchy leads to a meeting with the Queen in season two?

John Heffernan plays Lord Altrincham, whose 1957 article in the National and English Review called the Queen's speeches 'a pain in the neck'; no record shows the private meeting happened.

Which actress played Princess Diana in season four of The Crown?

Corrin won a Golden Globe for the role, which runs from the teenage Diana meeting Charles through the collapsing marriage of the late 1980s.

Which group planted the bomb that killed Lord Mountbatten on his boat in 1979, the event that opens The Crown's fourth season?

The Provisional IRA bombed the boat at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, and the attack devastates Charles, who had lost his closest mentor.

Which royal residence was Princess Margaret's London home and the hub of her famously starry social life?

Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon remodelled Apartment 1A at Kensington Palace after their 1960 wedding, and it remained her London base until her death in 2002.

Which global event sends Prince Philip into a mid-life crisis in season three?

In 'Moondust' Philip fixates on the 1969 Moon landing, then finds the Apollo 11 astronauts ordinary men with head colds and turns instead to the Dean of Windsor's clergy group.

Newcomer Meg Bellamy joined the sixth season as which future royal?

The final episodes follow William and Catherine meeting at St Andrews, with Eve Best playing her mother Carole.

In season five, which actor portrayed the elder Prince Charles (later King Charles III)?

Dominic West's casting as Charles was confirmed in April 2021; he plays the prince from the 1991 marriage breakdown through the 2005 wedding.

Which actress plays Prince Philip's mother, the nun Princess Alice, in season three?

Jane Lapotaire plays Princess Alice in 'Bubbikins', where a journalist expecting scandal instead finds a chain-smoking nun who had given away her jewels.

Who broke into Queen Elizabeth II's Buckingham Palace bedroom in 1982, as depicted in The Crown season four?

Tom Brooke plays the intruder. The real Fagan has said his chat with the Queen was "short, polite and non-controversial" and never touched on politics as the show suggests.

Which prime minister, portrayed by Jason Watkins in The Crown's third season, served two non-consecutive terms in office?

Harold Wilson served from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976, and the Queen comes to regard the Labour leader as one of her favourite prime ministers.

In season one, which divorced Group Captain did Princess Margaret wish to marry, causing a constitutional crisis?

Peter Townsend, a divorced RAF Group Captain and her late father's equerry, was the man Margaret wished to marry; she publicly renounced him in October 1955.

Which episode on Philip's Gordonstoun days won Stephen Daldry a 2018 directing Emmy?

'Paterfamilias' intercuts Philip's own Gordonstoun schooldays with his decision to send a miserable Charles there; Stephen Daldry won the 2018 Emmy for directing it.

Charles and Diana's 1983 royal tour, dramatised in season four, takes them to which countries?

The 1983 tour of Australia and New Zealand is dramatised in 'Terra Nullius', where the Australian prime minister watches Diana's popularity eclipse both her husband and the republican cause.

From which two earlier works did Peter Morgan develop The Crown?

The Crown grew out of Morgan's 2006 film The Queen and his 2013 stage play The Audience, in both of which Helen Mirren played Elizabeth II.

Which two companies produced The Crown for Netflix?

Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television produced The Crown for Netflix; Left Bank had earlier made Wallander and Outlander.

On what date was the sixth season's second part released?

Part two of the sixth season was released on 14 December 2023, four weeks after part one arrived on 16 November 2023.

Which political scandal features in season two alongside the Suez Crisis?

The 1963 Profumo affair, dramatised in 'Mystery Man', helps end Macmillan's premiership; the season also covers the births of Princes Andrew and Edward.

Which royal celebration closes season three of The Crown?

Season three closes with the 1977 Silver Jubilee, 25 years into the reign, having opened with Harold Wilson's 1964 election win.

What name did the press give the Charles-Diana media battle of season five?

'The War of the Waleses' was the press name for the Charles-Diana briefing war of 1992-95, which season five dramatises alongside the rise of the Al-Fayed family.

How many of season six's ten episodes cover the death of Diana?

Part one's first four episodes run up to Diana's death and funeral in 1997; the final six cover William at Eton and St Andrews, the Golden Jubilee and the 2005 wedding.

Which actress played Elizabeth's grandmother, the widow of George V, in season one?

Eileen Atkins plays Queen Mary, George V's widow, whose 1953 death falls in season one; Victoria Hamilton plays the Queen Mother in the first two seasons.

Which two actors played the Duke of Windsor, the former Edward VIII?

Alex Jennings played the Duke of Windsor in the first two seasons and Derek Jacobi in season three; Lia Williams and Geraldine Chaplin played Wallis Simpson.

Which two actors played Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon?

Goode appeared in season two and Daniels in season three.

Which two actresses played Princess Anne across the series?

Erin Doherty played Princess Anne in seasons three and four and Claudia Harrison in seasons five and six; Doherty later won a 2025 Emmy for Adolescence.

Who played Denis Thatcher in season four?

Stephen Boxer plays Denis Thatcher opposite Gillian Anderson's Margaret in season four, including the Thatchers' awkward Balmoral weekend in 'The Balmoral Test'.

Which actress played Camilla Parker Bowles in seasons five and six?

Olivia Williams plays Camilla in seasons five and six, from the Camillagate tapes to the 2005 wedding; Emerald Fennell had played the younger Camilla.

Which actress played Penny Knatchbull, Lady Romsey, in season five?

Natascha McElhone plays Penny Knatchbull, whose carriage-driving friendship with Philip after her daughter's death is the subject of season five's 'The System'.

Which actor played Mohamed Al-Fayed in the final two seasons?

Salim Daw plays Mohamed Al-Fayed, whose rise from Alexandria to owning Harrods is told in 'Mou Mou'; Khalid Abdalla plays his son Dodi.

Which actor played Prince Harry in the sixth season?

Luther Ford plays Prince Harry in season six; he was a film student with no professional credits when cast through an open call.

Which actress played the secretary who types up Lord Altrincham's editorial?

Gemma Whelan, Game of Thrones' Yara Greyjoy, plays Altrincham's secretary in 'Marionettes'; John Heffernan plays Altrincham himself.

Which American preacher, played by Paul Sparks, does the Queen consult in season two?

Billy Graham, played by Paul Sparks, preaches at Windsor and counsels the Queen on forgiveness in 'Vergangenheit', the episode about the Duke of Windsor's Nazi ties.

Which actress played Jacqueline Kennedy in season two?

Jodi Balfour plays Jackie Kennedy in 'Dear Mrs. Kennedy', where Jackie's reported barbs about Buckingham Palace sting the Queen; Michael C. Hall plays JFK.

Which actor played Kurt Hahn, founder of Gordonstoun, in season two?

Both Philip and Charles attended the Scottish school.

Which US president, played by Clancy Brown, features in season three?

Lyndon B. Johnson, played by Clancy Brown, is charmed by Princess Margaret at a 1965 White House dinner in 'Margaretology', which dramatises her US tour.

Who played Prince Charles's Welsh language tutor Edward Millward in season three?

Welsh actor Mark Lewis Jones plays Tedi Millward, the nationalist academic who tutors Charles at Aberystwyth before his 1969 investiture in 'Tywysog Cymru'.

Which actor played Edward Heath in season three?

Michael Maloney plays Edward Heath, prime minister from 1970 to 1974, in season three; Jason Watkins plays his rival Harold Wilson.

Which actor played Roddy Llewellyn, Princess Margaret's younger boyfriend?

Harry Treadaway plays Roddy Llewellyn, the gardener 17 years Margaret's junior whose affair with her, shown in 'The Hereditary Principle', precedes her 1978 divorce from Snowdon.

Which actor played Michael Fagan, the Buckingham Palace intruder, in season four?

Tom Brooke plays Michael Fagan in the episode 'Fagan', which imagines the unemployed decorator airing his grievances about Thatcher's Britain to the Queen in July 1982.

Which Australian prime minister, played by Richard Roxburgh, appears in season four?

Bob Hawke, played by Richard Roxburgh, had become prime minister only days before the March 1983 tour dramatised in 'Terra Nullius'.

Which actor played Derek 'Dazzle' Jennings, Princess Margaret's civil-servant friend?

Tom Burke plays Derek 'Dazzle' Jennings, the civil servant who leaves Margaret's circle to become a Catholic priest in 'The Hereditary Principle'; Nicholas Farrell plays press secretary Michael Shea.

Which actor played Martin Bashir in season five?

Prasanna Puwanarajah, a former NHS doctor turned actor, plays Martin Bashir in 'Gunpowder', season five's episode on securing the 1995 Panorama interview.

Which actress played Carole Middleton, Kate's mother, in season six?

Eve Best plays Carole Middleton, shown steering Kate toward St Andrews in season six; Meg Bellamy made her professional debut as Kate.

Which four directors handled the first season?

Stephen Daldry, Philip Martin, Julian Jarrold and Benjamin Caron directed the ten first-season episodes, with Daldry, also an executive producer, taking the first two.

How many episodes did The Crown run across its six seasons?

The Crown ran 60 episodes, ten per season; a January 2020 plan to stop after five seasons was reversed that July.

What was The Crown's estimated total production budget as of 2020?

By 2020 the whole production was estimated at $260 million, making The Crown one of the most expensive television series ever made.

For a cameo in which season-four episode did Claire Foy win an Emmy?

Foy won the 2021 guest-actress Emmy for '48:1', in which she delivers the 21st-birthday speech of 1947; she also cameoed as the young Queen in seasons five and six.

Which actor dropped out of playing the Queen's husband in season three?

Paul Bettany was in talks to play Philip but withdrew over the time commitment in early 2018; Tobias Menzies took the role instead.

Which actor was cast as Dr Hasnat Khan in January 2022?

Pakistani star Humayun Saeed was cast in January 2022 as Hasnat Khan, the heart surgeon Diana dated from 1995 to 1997, for season five.

Which real-life relative of the season-five Charles actor played young Prince William?

Rufus Kampa and Ed McVey took over for season six.

Why was Matt Smith reportedly paid more than Claire Foy for the first two seasons?

Producers said Matt Smith's Doctor Who fame explained his higher fee; Left Bank later pledged that no actor would out-earn the actress playing the Queen.

Roughly what share of season one was filmed at Elstree Studios?

The whole season took 152 days to shoot.

Which nation doubled as Kenya for the season one scenes of Elizabeth's accession?

Ely and Winchester cathedrals stood in for Westminster Abbey.

Which three stately homes doubled as Buckingham Palace?

Lancaster House, Wrotham Park and Wilton House all stood in for Buckingham Palace's state rooms, while sets for the private quarters were built at Elstree.

Which Spanish cities stood in for Sydney and other Australian settings?

Málaga and Almería stood in for Sydney and other stops on Charles and Diana's 1983 tour, while Atlanterra near Cádiz doubled as Mustique.

Roughly how much were the props stolen from production vehicles worth in February 2022?

About £150,000 of antiques and props were taken from production vehicles parked near Mexborough, South Yorkshire, in February 2022; most had limited resale value.

Which Act would have required the monarch's permission for Margaret to marry Townsend?

The Royal Marriages Act 1772 required the sovereign's consent for royal marriages; in 1955 Eden's government drafted an amendment to let Margaret marry Townsend while leaving the succession.

Season three was criticised for omitting which colony's 1965 breakaway from Britain?

Rhodesia's 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence under Ian Smith goes unmentioned in season three; historian Hugo Vickers also questioned the Anthony Blunt storyline.

Which Guardian columnist called season four 'fake history'?

Simon Jenkins wrote in the Guardian that season four's 'fake history is as corrosive as fake news'; Judi Dench later wrote to the Times asking Netflix for a fiction disclaimer.

Which culture secretary suggested The Crown carry a fiction warning?

Culture secretary Oliver Dowden said in November 2020 that Netflix should make clear the show is fiction; Netflix added a 'fictional dramatisation' line to the season-five trailer in October 2022.

Which two former prime ministers criticised season five's abdication-plot storyline?

John Major called a scene of Charles lobbying him over abdication 'a barrel-load of malicious nonsense', and Tony Blair's spokesman dismissed a similar scene as 'complete and utter rubbish'.

Which royal told James Corden he was comfortable with The Crown's portrayal?

He called it 'not strictly accurate' but a 'rough idea' of royal pressures.

Which season was the only one to win the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series?

It swept all major drama categories at the 73rd Emmys.

Which other Netflix series' costumes joined The Crown's in a Brooklyn Museum exhibition?

Costumes from The Queen's Gambit joined The Crown's in the Brooklyn Museum's 2020 virtual exhibition 'The Queen and the Crown'.

Which auction house sold costumes and props from The Crown in February 2024?

Bonhams staged The Crown Auction in February 2024, with lots including a replica of the Gold State Coach; items were exhibited at its Mayfair saleroom beforehand.

Reports in 2023 said a Crown prequel would open with which event?

Reports said the prequel would begin with Queen Victoria's death in 1901 and run to around Elizabeth's 1947 wedding.

Which Soviet spy is unmasked in season three's opening episode?

Anthony Blunt, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, is unmasked in 'Olding'; critics noted the real Blunt confessed in 1964 but was only publicly exposed in 1979.

How many Emmys did season four win at the 73rd ceremony?

Season four took eleven Emmys in 2021, seven at the main ceremony and four at the Creative Arts awards, becoming the first drama to sweep every major category.

Which war features in season four alongside the Fagan break-in?

The 1982 Falklands War runs through season four's 'Fagan', which sets Thatcher's wartime triumph against Michael Fagan's July 1982 palace break-in.

Whose DNA is used to identify the Romanov remains in a season five storyline?

Prince Philip's DNA identifies the Romanov bones in 'Ipatiev House'; his grandmother Victoria of Hesse was the Tsarina's sister, making him a maternal-line relative.

Which actress played Monique Ritz in season five?

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Emily in Paris's Sylvie, plays Monique Ritz, from whom Mohamed Al-Fayed buys the Paris Ritz in 'Mou Mou'.

Which friend of Diana quit as a season five consultant over how her final years were told?

Jemima Khan, a friend of Diana's, said in October 2021 she had withdrawn from consulting on season five after deciding Diana's final years were not being told respectfully enough.

Which two young actresses played teenage Elizabeth and Margaret in season six flashbacks?

Viola Prettejohn and Beau Gadsdon play the teenage Elizabeth and Margaret slipping out to celebrate VE Day in 1945 in 'Ritz', season six's Margaret episode.

On what date did filming of the sixth season wrap?

Season six wrapped on 21 April 2023, the date that would have been Elizabeth II's 97th birthday.

Reports about season six sparked controversy over Diana appearing as what?

Reports in October 2023 that Diana would appear as a ghost to Charles and the Queen after her death drew a backlash; the episodes present her as an imagined presence.

Which season-four episode depicts Charles and Diana's 1981 engagement and wedding?

'Fairytale', directed by Benjamin Caron, follows Diana from the February 1981 engagement through her lonely weeks at Buckingham Palace to the July wedding.

Which three prime ministers are omitted from Morgan's play The Audience?

The Audience skips Macmillan, Douglas-Home and Heath; Blair, also absent from the 2013 London run, was added when the play moved to Broadway in 2015.

Which director made Peter Morgan's 2006 film The Queen?

Stephen Frears directed The Queen, the 2006 film about the week after Diana's death that won Helen Mirren the Best Actress Oscar.

Who composed The Crown's main title theme?

Hans Zimmer composed the main title theme, while Rupert Gregson-Williams scored seasons one and two and Martin Phipps seasons three to six.

Who plays Group Captain Peter Townsend in the first two seasons?

Ben Miles plays Group Captain Peter Townsend, the late King's equerry whose romance with Margaret runs through the first two seasons.

Who plays Churchill's wife Clementine in season one?

Harriet Walter plays Clementine Churchill, who has the hated Sutherland portrait burned in 'Assassins'.

Who plays the Queen Mother in seasons three and four?

Marion Bailey plays the Queen Mother in seasons three and four, between Victoria Hamilton's seasons one and two and Marcia Warren's five and six.

Which 1952 disaster paralyses London in season one's 'Act of God'?

The Great Smog of December 1952, which killed thousands, drives 'Act of God', with Churchill dismissing it as an act of God until its toll reaches his own office.

Who plays the private secretary Tommy Lascelles in the first two seasons?

Pip Torrens plays Tommy Lascelles, the formidable private secretary who blocks Margaret's hopes of marrying Townsend in season one.

Who plays the private secretary Martin Charteris in seasons three and four?

Charles Edwards plays Martin Charteris in seasons three and four; the real Charteris served as the Queen's private secretary from 1972 to 1977.

Which Swiss resort's 1988 avalanche is dramatised in season four's 'Avalanche'?

'Avalanche' dramatises the March 1988 Klosters avalanche that killed Charles's equerry Major Hugh Lindsay and nearly killed the prince himself.

What issue divides the Queen and Thatcher in season four's '48:1'?

'48:1' is the Commonwealth split over sanctions against apartheid South Africa, 48 nations to Britain alone; the episode dramatises the 1986 Sunday Times report of the Queen's 'dismay' at Thatcher.

Which episode title was the real code phrase for George VI's death?

'Hyde Park Corner' was the pre-arranged code phrase signalling the King's death on 6 February 1952, and the episode of that name dramatises it.

Which episode opens The Crown?

'Wolferton Splash' opens the series with the 1947 wedding and George VI's lung operation; Wolferton is a village beside the Sandringham estate.

Who plays Prince Andrew in seasons five and six?

James Murray plays Prince Andrew in seasons five and six, after Tom Byrne's season-four Andrew; Sam Woolf plays Prince Edward in the same seasons.

With which African leader does the Queen dance in 'Dear Mrs. Kennedy'?

The Queen's 1961 foxtrot with Ghana's president Kwame Nkrumah in Accra caps 'Dear Mrs. Kennedy' as her answer to Jackie Kennedy's glamour.

Which 1969 documentary is shown being filmed in season three?

The 1969 fly-on-the-wall documentary Royal Family, later withdrawn from circulation by the Palace, is filmed during 'Bubbikins', where Princess Alice upstages it.