Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth

Netflix has launched the primary take a look at Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II within the upcoming Season 5 of “The Crown.”

The brand new season will chronicle the Queen within the later years of her life. Staunton, 65, is the third actress to play the monarch, following Olivia Colman’s Seasons 3 and 4 portrayal and Claire Foy in Seasons 1 and a pair of.

The fifth season will choose up the place the fourth season left off — the early Nineteen Nineties. According to Variety, it’s anticipated to doc the Queen’s “annus horribilis” 12 months in 1992, when the royal household confronted quite a few scandals, together with the separation of Prince Charles and Diana; the report of an affair between Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles; the publication of topless sunbathing pictures of Sarah Ferguson; and a catastrophic fireplace at Windsor Fortress.

Producers have but to substantiate or deny whether or not the upcoming season will incorporate Princess Diana’s dying in 1997. Nonetheless, Staunton will reportedly keep for 2 seasons, portraying the Queen into the early 2000s throughout the sixth and supposedly final season.

In January, Staunton revealed among the nuances and difficulties of her upcoming portrayal.

“I believe my type of further problem, as if I wanted it, is that I’m now doing the Queen that we’re a bit extra acquainted with. With Claire Foy, it was virtually historical past and now I’m taking part in one that folks might say ‘She doesn’t do this,’ ‘She’s not like that,’ and that’s my private bête noire,” Staunton instructed Individuals journal.

The Season 5 forged additionally consists of Jonathan Pryce (“Game of Thrones”) as Prince Philip, Lesley Manville (“Phantom Thread”) as Princess Margaret, Elizabeth Debicki (“Tenet”) as Diana, Princess of Wales, and, most lately introduced, Jonny Lee Miller (“Elementary”) as former Prime Minister John Major.

Earlier this month, the fourth season of “The Crown” was nominated for twenty-four Emmy Awards, together with Excellent Drama Sequence; Greatest Actress in a Drama for each Colman and Corrin; Greatest Actor in a Drama for Josh O’Conner; Greatest Supporting Actor in a Drama for Tobias Menzies; and Greatest Supporting Actress for Emerald Fennell, Gillian Anderson and Helena Bonham Carter.

Netflix has not but revealed a Season 5 premiere date.