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Hollywood has revelled in tales of royal exploits

For millions, Her Majesty’s features were as familiar as their own mothers’, writes John Walsh

From ‘The Crown’ to ‘The Queen’

Marv Studios has worked with Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Helen Mirren, Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert de Niro

“I could see she was a good card to have in my hand,” director Stephen Frears told me when I interviewed him about The Queen, his 2006 film starring Helen Mirren as the monarch, adjusting to the aftermath of Princess Diana’s death. Yet neither he nor the movie’s writer Peter…

Wise, witty, patient, crisp, faintly martyred or skydiving with James Bond … our film critic looks at how cinema portrayed the monarch – and recalls the night she put him on the spot at Windsor Castle

Film and TV depictions of her reign tapped into our collective urge to peek behind the royal curtain, but the popularity of multiple Emmy winner The Crown did something more.

We list the best-known television shows and movies featuring The Queen with the stars who played her - including The Crown's Claire Foy, and Oscar-winners Dame Helen Mirren and Olivia Colman

Be it her iconic speech in lockdown, or her landmark decision to televise her coronation – against Churchill’s advice – the Queen embraced TV in a way that helped her connect to her subjects

From Beaton to Warhol, from the Sex Pistols to the coins in our pockets, the Queen’s face has been everywhere

The death of Queen Elizabeth II has put many things on a brief pause, including production on the Netflix series "The Crown."