The Crown’s final trailer introduces Prince William’s heartthrob years
The final episodes of The Crown debut on Netflix on December 14
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The Crown is (nearly) dead; long live The Crown. The final trailer for Netflix’s hit series, which follows the reign of Queen Elizabeth II from her first days on the throne all the way up to, uh, the early 2000s for some reason, debuted on Friday, and it’s a nostalgic ride. The latest Elizabeth (Imelda Staunton) is having her Barbie moment—i.e., wondering “What was I made for?” and also, maybe, “What was this whole institution made for?”
These are good questions for a fictional show about a monarchy to ask, but that’s not what brings us here today. No, what brings us here is Prince William’s brief but beautiful heartthrob era, with the spot-on casting of Ed McVey as the young future monarch. In the new trailer, Will is a little overwhelmed by the glare of the spotlight and the looming obligation to someday assume the crown himself. But he’s also falling in love, and isn’t that cute? It’s like The Prince And Me!
“Still coming to terms with his mother’s death, Prince William heads back to Eton amidst an increase in attention from young female fans touched by his plight. The struggle to re-adjust leads to tensions with his family, as they try to support another young heir to find his way in the system and the world,” reads a synopsis from Netflix. “Later, as Prince William takes up his place at St Andrew’s University, the omnipresent conflict of life as a public servant continues as he tries to balance the traditional undergraduate rites of passage with the constraints of his position and constant presence of personal protection officers. His perseverance is tested when he develops a crush on one of the most desired students on campus: a woman by the name of Kate Middleton.”
Part two of the sixth season will see the Queen looking back on her own legacy, though it’ll come up short around her Golden Jubilee. As we all know, she continued ruling for another 20 years after that, and there was some real drama in those 20 years. (We all want to see the fictionalized version of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Oprah interview!) But according to creator Peter Morgan on The Crown podcast (via The Telegraph), he always wanted to end the show “as close to 20 years away from present day” as he could, so that there would be “distance and so that it would feel historical rather than journalistic.” And so the series will conclude with nostalgic Elizabeth, hot William, and a second marriage for Prince Charles (Dominic West). For the rest, you’ll just have to hit the history books.
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I haven’t started watching this season yet, but by the looks of it they nailed the casting for Prince William!
They nailed it even more casting Elizabeth Debicki as Diana. When I saw the scene in episode 4 of the first part of this season, right before Diana and Dodi leave the Ritz, it was like a punch in the stomach. Seeing her in that outfit, remembering what happened that night. No matter what anyone thinks of this series, she deserves an Emmy for her portrayal of Diana.
I think that young William and Harry were cast with uncanny accuracy.
It seems like they’ll end with the Golden Jubilee in 2002. That would mean we’ll get the deaths of both Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother. I would also expect the show to address Prince Andrew, since the previous episode about Queen Elizabeth’s favorite favorite child seemed to be setting up that storyline (Virginia Giuffre allegedly had sex with Prince Andrew in 2001). We’ll probably also see September 11 addressed, and bread crumbs for the way Blair’s close ties to the U.S. eventually sank his seemingly invincible popularity.
“from young female fans touched by his plight”Nah, we were “touched” by his boy-band face and the fact that he was insanely rich, ma’am.
I’m having a moment because I always thought of him as being unattractive. But money… sigh…
He’s not attractive now, bless, but we were teenagers at the same time and back in the day he was thought to be. He did have his mother’s pretty face.
It can’t just be the loss of hair that’s made his good looks go away, can it? They have gone away though. Don’t have kids! I guess.
The loss of hair didn’t help, but I don’t think that was the main thing. His teeth got huge also. I’m not saying he’s the worst looking man in the world, but he’s not as attractive as he once was. But, who is, really. Jennifer Connelly and Angela Bassett. Plus the bloom is off the rose with the royals in general.
Let’s be honest. It is rare that a good-looking man loses his looks when he loses his hair – it can be so much sexier that way!- but Price William fell into the rare camp. But it takes more than that, and it was the lack of sparkle in his eyes – the sort of deadening of natural charm that I guess comes with thousands of years of responsibility being thrust on one’s head combined with an increasing inability to hide it? – that made him not age as “quite as well” as his counterparts – including his brother.
Aaaaah, the happy memories of flocks of vapid Yankee basics trying to get into the University of St. Andrews with the hilariously fuckwitted notion that they – and only they – could hope to snare the affections of William. Stay in your lane, sweeties.
He aged out of it and his brother aged into it.
And then his brother aged out of it as well.
It does seem weird to call the Golden Jubilee “the end of an era” that lasted enough twenty years.
Wait do people find William attractive? Whenever I see a pic of Harry, William, and their wives my first thought is always that they married for money because of how much more attractive those two women are than those two men.
William was very good looking younger and still is ok. Megan is very average looking so I don’t really understand what you mean.