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A new cast is playing the royal family for this season of the hit Netflix show

The Crown returned to Netflix last week for its penultimate series

The eagerly-awaited fifth series of The Crown has finally dropped on Netflix charting the lives of the royals in the early 90s - and here we take a look at some of the season’s most controversial moments

The pair could not marry due to the 1772 Royal Marriages Act

Covering the phone tapping scandal, Charles and Diana's divorce and the Camilla affair, it was thought this season was going to make the new king look awful. But it could have been worse.

“The senior royals seem dangerously deluded and out of touch … and the Prince of Wales impatient for a great role in public life, not realizing his great asset is his wife,” says Prime Minister John Major (Jonny Lee Miller) in the first episode of the new season of "The…

A new cast is playing the royal family for this season of the hit Netflix show

Lesley Manville has stepped into the role previously held by Vanessa Kirby and Helena Bonham Carter for The Crown season five

A fundamental principle at the heart of the UK constitution is that the crown never dies. On the death of one monarch, the heir to the throne immediately accedes. This smooth transition ensures that the government (which is carried on in the name of the crown) continues largely unaffected.