Netflix has began teasing the sixth and remaining season of The Crown with the primary take a look at the actors enjoying a younger Prince William and Kate Middleton.
The brand new pictures characteristic a photograph of a loved-up, fictionalized Prince William and Middleton holding fingers on the College of St Andrews in Scotland, the place the real-life couple first started their romance.
Two close-up pictures of the actors in costume had been additionally launched. Middleton, who’s showing as a personality for the primary time in The Crown, might be performed by Meg Bellamy.
Meg Bellamy as a younger Kate Middleton in Season 6 of ‘The Crown.’.
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Prince William might be performed by newcomer Ed McVey, who was photographed in what seems to be a lavish-looking front room in one of many royal abodes.
Ed McVey as a university-aged Prince William in ‘The Crown.’.
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Netflix even included a cheeky behind-the-scenes snap of the actors posing exterior the well-known Northpoint Cafe the place Middleton and Prince William met in 2001.
Ed McVey and Meg Bellamy stand exterior the Northpoint Cafe the place Prince Harry and Kate Middleton met.
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Buzz in regards to the casting for Prince William and Middleton has been circling on-line for a lot of weeks now, starting when the actors had been first seen filming on location on the College of St Andrews. Many social media customers shared footage of the manufacturing on-line.
The Crown follows the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September 2022 on the age of 96, having served 70 years on the throne. The brand new season, which is rapidly creeping up on the period of the modern-day monarchy, will partly observe Prince William as he makes an attempt to mix in at college — and start a romance together with his one-day-wife, Middleton.
The Crown, particularly in recent times, isn’t with out its critics. Because the dramatized royal story pushes nearer and nearer to fashionable occasions, some have complained the manufacturing is just too sensationalized.
In an open letter to The Occasions UK final yr, Oscar-winning actor Judi Dench wrote that The Crown presents “an inaccurate and hurtful account of historical past.”
“Certainly, the nearer the drama involves our current occasions, the extra freely it appears keen to blur the strains between historic accuracy and crude sensationalism,” wrote Dench.
She anxious audiences, notably abroad, could take The Crown as reality.
On the time, Netflix responded and claimed The Crown “is a fictional dramatisation, imagining what may have occurred behind closed doorways throughout a big decade for the Royal Household – one which has already been scrutinised and well-documented by journalists, biographers and historians.”
The Crown will air on Netflix later this yr.
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