![]() ![]() Series 3 of The Crown focuses on the years between 19, with the drama built on sex, socialism and sibling rivalry. In the next few years, the country Churchill had led to victory against Hitler would be immeasurably changed. ![]() Now it is January 30, 1965, and there is something more than just sadness on the monarch’s face. It was Churchill who had advised and emboldened her when, as a 25-year-old princess, she was made head of state following the premature death of her father in 1952. As his coffin, draped in the Union flag, processes down the nave, Colman’s face flickers with contained grief. ![]() In the gloom of St Paul’s Cathedral, its candles no match for a dreary January day, a sombre Queen, played by Olivia Colman, watches her first Prime Minister being laid to rest. “If there is one moment in the forthcoming series of The Crown that shows how the past has become fractured from the present, it is the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. Ahead of the publication of The Crown: The Official Companion – Volume 2, Robert Lacey writes for the Daily Mail: ![]()
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