‘The Crown’ Season 5: The Release Date & Everything Else We Know So Far

The communicative of the royal household is acold from over. Just arsenic Queen Elizabeth II was laid to rest, The Crown is traveling backmost successful clip to 1 of the astir fraught times for the royal family. The Crown play 5 volition marque its highly-anticipated debut connected November 9.

The cardinal creation for ‘The Crown’ play 5 merchandise date. (Netflix)

Season 5 volition beryllium akin to play 3 erstwhile it comes to the cast. The roles of the notable royal figures person been recast arsenic the amusement moves guardant into the 1990s. HollywoodLife has everything you request to cognize astir play 5, including your questions astir the cast, timeline, and more.

The Crown Season 5 Cast

Imelda Staunton volition play Queen Elizabeth II. (Netflix/Shutterstock)

The Crown volition beryllium getting a full caller formed for play 5. Imelda Staunton volition beryllium playing Queen Elizabeth II, taking implicit from Olivia Colman.  “I’m pursuing 2 bonzer actresses, but I’m besides pursuing 1 bonzer quality being, which is the Queen. Because she’s truthful overmuch successful a batch of our lives and we cognize however she looks and however she sounds,” Imelda told This Morning. “Of course, I person to beryllium similar her arsenic overmuch arsenic I can, but besides I person to archer a communicative and a communicative of the day, immoderate that is. Peter Morgan’s occupation is to bash her backstage life, if you similar – that’s wherever his penning comes in, and it’s truthful extraordinary.”

A connection from Imelda Staunton, our caller Queen Elizabeth. Season 5, coming November 2022. pic.twitter.com/OfpgrPGOXx

— The Crown (@TheCrownNetflix) September 25, 2021

In September 2021, The Crown’s authoritative Twitter relationship posted a video from the acceptable of the Netflix series. “Hopefully, I look calm, collected, and capable. My stomach, meanwhile, is doing somersaults,” Imelda said successful the video. “On behalf of the formed and crew, we look guardant to bringing you the adjacent play of The Crown successful November 2022.”

Elizabeth Debicki volition beryllium replacing Emma Corrin arsenic Princess Diana. “It’s a imagination role,” Elizabeth told The Mirror. “She is specified a singular quality being and she truly does inactive unrecorded successful the hearts of truthful galore people. I’m overwhelmed, I’m terrified and I’m excited. I can’t hold to start.”

When she was formed successful 2019, Elizabeth told Netflix, “Princess Diana’s spirit, her words, and her actions unrecorded successful the hearts of truthful many. It is my existent privilege and honour to beryllium joining this masterful series, which has had maine perfectly hooked from occurrence one.”

Elizabeth Debicki volition play Princess Diana. (Netflix/Shutterstock)

The Affair histrion Dominic West volition play Prince Charles, who is present King Charles III successful the contiguous day, successful The Crown. Dominic’s son, Senan West, volition marque his acting debut as Prince William successful play 5.

Lesley Manville volition play Princess Margaret, portion Jonathan Pryce volition play Prince Philip. Olivia Williams volition play Camilla Parker Bowles, taking implicit from Emerald Fennell. Jonny Lee Miller volition play Sir John Major, who was elected British premier curate successful 1990. Khalid Abdalla volition play Diana’s fellow Dodi Fayed, who died alongside her successful 1997, according to Variety. Salim Daw volition play Dodi’s father.

Dominic West volition play Prince Charles successful the last 2 seasons. (Netflix/Shutterstock)

James Murray is expected to play Prince Andrew aft rumors of the bid having trouble successful casting the role. “There is perfectly nary conflict to formed immoderate relation for play 5 of The Crown and it is mean signifier for productions to advertise in Spotlight,” a typical of The Crown told The Wrap in April 2021.

The Crown Season 5 Premiere Date

The Crown play 5 volition premiere connected November 9, 2022. The play is expected to person 10 episodes conscionable similar the erstwhile 4 seasons.

The archetypal play premiered connected November 4, 2016. Season 2 followed successful December 2017. There was a two-year spread betwixt play 2 and play 3, which is erstwhile Claire Foy passed the Queen Elizabeth II relation to Olivia. Season 3 premiered connected November 17, 2019, with play 4 premiering connected November 15, 2020. There’s been astir a two-year spread betwixt seasons 4 and 5, akin to seasons 2 and 3.

What’s The Timeline For Season 5?

The nonstop timeline for play 5 has not been revealed yet. Season 4 ends successful 1990. With Elizabeth playing the Princess of Wales for seasons 5 and 6, that would astir apt mean play 5 would extremity earlier Diana’s tragic decease successful August 1997.

Princess Diana volition proceed to play a large relation successful play 5. (Netflix)

The aboriginal 1990s were an incredibly tumultuous clip for the royals. Princess Diana and Prince Charles separated and yet divorced, Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson divorced, Princess Anne divorced Mark Phillips, and Windsor Castle was severely damaged by fire. Queen Elizabeth II notably called the twelvemonth 1992 an “annus horribilis,” which is the Latin word for “horrible year.”

The exclusive teaser that was revealed during the TUDUM lawsuit connected September 24 teased that the amusement volition screen each the tense back-and-forth warfare betwixt Diana and Charles starring up to their divorce. It appears that Princess Diana’s infamous BBC Panorama interrogation successful 1995 volition beryllium portion of the storyline.

Will There Be The Crown Season 6?

Yes, determination volition beryllium a play 6! There’s been immoderate bounce backmost betwixt whether oregon not the amusement would extremity with play 5 oregon play 6, but Netflix confirmed erstwhile and for each successful July 2020 that play 6 would beryllium the last season.

News from the palace: we tin corroborate determination volition beryllium a sixth (and final) play of @TheCrownNetflix, successful summation to the antecedently announced five!

— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) July 9, 2020

“News from the palace: we tin corroborate determination volition beryllium a sixth (and final) play of @TheCrownNetflix, successful summation to the antecedently announced five!” the announcement read.

“As we started to sermon the storylines for bid 5, it soon became wide that successful bid to bash justness to the richness and complexity of the communicative we should spell backmost to the archetypal program and bash six seasons,” creator Peter Morgan said successful a statement. “To beryllium clear, bid 6 volition not bring america immoderate person to present-day — it volition simply alteration america to screen the aforesaid play successful greater detail.”

Season 6 is presently filming. The play volition screen the precocious 1990s and aboriginal 2000s. Prince William and Prince Harry volition instrumentality halfway stage. Prince William volition beryllium played by 16-year-old Rufus Kampa and 21-year-old Ed McVey successful play 6. Newcomer Meg Bellamy volition play Kate Middleton.