The Crown: Prince Philip’s Relationship With Penelope Knatchbull

The Crown creator Peter Morgan has long been fascinated by the 73-year marriage between Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip, devoting story lines in the series’ first four seasons to the unique power dynamic—dramatizing, for example, Philip’s struggle sacrificing his naval career to support his wife just five years into their marriage, when she suddenly became queen. Morgan imagined what it was like to be the young queen in the 1950s, when she was routinely confronted with reports of her husband’s alleged infidelity. And now, in the series’ fifth season, the first installment to air after Prince Philip’s and… Read Full Article