How are we going to amuse ourselves in the ceremonial void between the Queen’s Funeral and the King’s Coronation? Luckily, here comes to the rescue, with plans to plug that infotainment gap with a grisly ritual of its own making — The Crown.The new series, which will be released next month, focuses on the turbulent years between 1990 and 1997, and no one would argue that it was a low point for the . Yet do the Windsors really deserve to be portrayed, as they have to date, as a parade of stuffed toff freaks with no redeeming features whatsoever?In series three, the Queen was even shown visiting Aberfan in 1966 — after the colliery spoil tip disaster that killed 116 children and 28 adults — and being so unmoved by the tragedy that she had to fake her tears before facing the bereaved public.
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