“The Crown” has launched its fifth season and this new installment of the Netflix series, like the previous one, focuses above all on the life of King Carlos III and his marriage to Lady Di. The historical drama series about the reign of the Queen isabel IIhas been a success thanks to the great work reflecting the monarch’s years on the throne, and has generated a new trend of interest in the ins and outs of British royalty.
In his first seasonThe Crown” unfolds the period from the marriage of Queen Elizabeth II to Prince Philip in 1947, to the end of her sister Princess Margaret’s engagement to Captain Peter Townsend in 1955. The following season supports the period between the crisis of Suez in 1956 and the retirement of the Prime Minister and the birth of Prince Edward in 1964. As for the third season of “The Crown” This one develops the period between the years 1964 and 1977. From the first chapter the viewers expected to reach the nineties and delve into the relationship of the then Prince Carlostoday King Charles IIIand Lady Di.
The fourth season of “The Crow“finally goes a little deeper into Lady Di’s marriage to him King Charles III, since it covers from 1977 to 1990 and includes Margaret Thatcher’s term as Prime Minister. Finally we reach the fifth season in which not only the difficulties of the current king’s first marriage are portrayed but also some precariousness of the Queen isabel II.
In the first episode of the new season of “The Crown” refers to a phrase that appears in a survey published in the “Sunday Times” about the mandate of the mother of the King Charles III and mother-in-law of Lady Di. This was about the Queen isabel II and there it is mentioned that the late monarch would have suffered from “Queen Victoria Syndrome”.
This “Queen Victoria Syndrome” that would have suffered the Queen isabel IIand that is mentioned in “The Crown“, refers to the number of years he spent on the throne since Queen Victoria of England reigned from 1837 to 1901, a large number of years, as did the mother of the King Charles III. In the newspaper’s survey, citizens were asked what they thought of the Queen who already had 40 years in the reign. The results showed that almost 50% of the population saw the monarch as “Irrelevant and old” and that due to her age and she does not represent the thought and ideals of the people. On the other hand, it is mentioned that the survey was orchestrated by the current King Charles III to make his mother finally resign from the position although this did not work.