After years of seething about the show, the royals may appreciate one of the positive upshots of the sixth and final season of The Crown ending in 2005. It’s the year of then-Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles’ wedding.
“People are always asking Peter (Morgan, the show’s creator and writer) if he’s going to write a sequel,” a source linked to the show told the Telegraph. “He doesn’t need to because those last five or six episodes bring you right up to the present day. You’re actually watching this rehabilitated Queen Camilla figure.”
The upcoming final season will be split into two parts—Princess Diana’s death, and the tumultuous events around it, and then what happened in its aftermath, including the mission to oversee Camilla’s public image rehabilitation (including the moment she and Charles were first photographed as a couple together outside the Ritz in 1999), and Queen Elizabeth’s longtime refusal to meet her.
However, The Crown shows the queen ultimately toasting the couple at their wedding in 2005 in terms of top British horse race the Grand National, saying, “They have come through and I’m very proud and wish them well. My son is home and dry with the woman he loves.”
Prince William, Prince Harry, and Kate Middleton are central to the final season’s drama too, Morgan has said. “In season 6, just the arrival of William and Kate and Harry is, so… It just blows the doors off, as it were, and you just wanna see them,” he said.
“In the read-through when we were reading, you could just see everyone was just looking up and looking at each other across the room. And every time William spoke it was like, ‘Oh my God, this is just riveting.’”
A source told the paper: “Carole and Michael are incredibly popular. Everyone is horrified by these posters.
It’s unfair to do this in their home village, just yards from where they live. “Their son James lives nearby and so does Pippa who has moved around there recently with her family so they all have to be confronted by this. They are doing their best to make things right and don’t deserve this kind of abuse.”