The Crown‘s fifth season set sail on Wednesday with a whole new cast and a premiere full of creaky-old-boat metaphors.
The premiere opens with a flashback to young Elizabeth (hi, Claire Foy!) christening the royal ocean liner Britannia. Now in 1991, a graying Elizabeth (now played by Imelda Staunton) is in her mid-60s, and a new poll is calling her “irrelevant” and “out of touch” while her son Charles (now played by Dominic West) is seen as “young” and “modern.” Half of those polled even support Charles taking over for Elizabeth early. Charles knows full well that the public likes him because of their love for Diana, so he dubs his upcoming family trip to Italy a “second honeymoon”… even as Camilla is blowing kisses to him through a window.
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Of course the trip is hardly a honeymoon: Diana (now played by Elizabeth Debicki, and the resemblance is striking) complains that she wants to go to the beach and go shopping with William and Harry while Charles prefers historical walking tours. While Diana and her sons sail off to the tune of Mariah Carey, Charles slips and refers to her and himself as “bride and gloom.” Meanwhile, Elizabeth’s husband Philip (now played by Jonathan Pryce) hears a clanking while aboard the Britannia and tells Elizabeth her beloved ship is on its last legs: “She’s a creature of another age… in many ways, she’s obsolete.” (Catch that metaphor, didja?) Oh, and that damning poll hits the British tabloids, and Elizabeth’s staff do everything in their power to keep her from seeing it.
Philip learns that repairing the Britannia would cost 14 million pounds while Charles, buoyed by that poll, arranges a one-on-one meeting with new Prime Minister John Major (Jonny Lee Miller). Diana is furious when Charles says he has to leave their trip early, and they bicker in front of everyone.
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