The Crown: Season 4

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About The Crown: Season 4

All of the biggest political dramas of the Thatcher years will be covered, including the scaling up of IRA attacks; the Falklands War; and Britain’s tense relationship with South Africa, then still under apartheid rule. The friction between Downing Street and Buckingham Palace following Thatcher’s landslide victory in 1979 is also chronicled in minute detail – culminating in her ousting by her own Cabinet in 1990. In the 1980s, Elizabeth clashes with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher while Prince Charles enters a tumultuous marriage with Lady Diana Spencer. Within The Firm, Prince Charles’s courtship of Lady Diana Spencer, their 1981 wedding, and the subsequent deterioration of their marriage is also central to the series – as is the future King’s ongoing devotion to Camilla Parker Bowles. Both the royal couple’s 1983 tour of Australia and Diana, Princess of Wales’s solo 1989 tour of New York City will be given screen time. In terms of the minor royals, Princess Margaret’s ongoing battle with her mental health is depicted, as is the decline of Princess Anne’s first marriage to Captain Mark Phillips – with both Princesses feeling overshadowed by Diana at various points in the series. Enjoy it!