‘The Crown’: Remembering Queen Elizabeth’s Floating Palace

The Crown’s long-awaited fifth season opens with a surprise flashback to Queen Elizabeth, played by Claire Foy, christening the Royal Yacht Britannia to cheers of jubilation in 1954, the year after she was coronated at the age of 27. The season premiere, “Queen Victoria Syndrome,” then jumps forward almost four decades to introduce the franchise’s latest iteration of the aging monarch, played by Imelda Staunton, shortly after she was called “irrelevant, old, expensive, and out-of-touch” by her once-adoring constituents in 1991. How far the crown has fallen in favorability. Facing her advancing years, her nation’s yearning for modernity, and a… Read Full Article