HWD Daily – Crown Season Three: Prepare to Reunite with the Queen

by Jacqueline A. O'Neill · Published November 20, 2019 · Updated March 5, 2024

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The Crown Season Three: Prepare to Reunite With the Queen

In a break with the streamer’s tradition of Friday releases, Netflix is dropping the third season of The Crown on Sunday—which gives you just two more days to bone up on all the royal knowledge you’ll need before rejoining Elizabeth, Philip, Margaret, and all the rest in the thick of the swinging ’60s. Vanity Fair royal expert Julie Miller will be publishing many guides to the events of the coming season starting Sunday and Monday, from an inside look at Princess Margaret’s trip to LBJ’s White House to a guide to the complicated romance of Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla. In the meantime, catch up on what we learned about in previous seasons: Margaret and Lord Snowdon’s doomed romance; the queen’s meeting with another American political figure, JFK; Prince Philip’s rumored affair with a Russian ballerina; and the scandal in another marriage that rocked Philip and Elizabeth. For a look at the season ahead, you can also catch up with Sonia Saraiya’s review, in which she writes of a “less sexy, more studied viewing experience.”

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