5 shocking moments concering the Royal family as shown in 'The Crown'

The month of September saw the Royal family taking over world news with the demise of Queen Elizabeth II She reigned as Queen for 70 years the longest in the history of the British monarchy Weeks after her demise the makers of The Crown dropped the trailer of season 5 of the muchtalkedabout and loved Netflix showThe trailer begins with actor Imelda Staunton who plays Queen Elizabeth II saying ldquoIn light of the events of the last 12 months perhaps I have more to reflect on than most The time is the 1990s The season will focus on the events that happened in the Royal family in that time period and the biggest among them was the failing marriage between Prince Charles and Princess Diana While Princess Diana rose to popularity among the people she was also dealing with a dying marriageWhile the central characters in the series are reallife people the situations in the series are a fictional dramatization inspired by true eventsAhead of season 5 we look back at 5 moments from The Crown that shook usThe Queen breaks protocol and unveils her political sideFormer Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was the first woman to enter a private audience with the Queen since Queen Elizabeth II took over the crown As shown in season 4 the PM was unwilling to support sanctions in apartheidrattled South Africa Adding to this Thatcher was not a fan of the commonwealth while the Queen loved them According to the British constitution the Queen is not allowed to express political opinions as it would be looked at as an attack on the government and an attempt to sway the public In the show we see the queen breaking the protocol The rift eventually becomes a national headline and the Royal family takes measures for damage controlThe life of Princess AliceThe life of Prince Philipss mother Princess Alice who was born with congenital deafness diagnosed with schizophrenia and helped rescue Jews from Nazis was featured on The Crown Season 3 focuses on the trauma and insecurities that Philip harboured and his complicated relationship with his mother According to the show Princess Alice moves into a small attic room at Buckingham Palace where she shared cigarettes and secrets with her granddaughter Princess Anne Princess Ann secretly gets a journalist to interview her grandmother Princess Alice While the journalist uncovers shocking secrets about her past they only feature the tip of the iceberg However the interview is a fictional part of the series and never happened in real life Historians believe she was a private person and even burned all her letters before her demiseAlso ReadNetflix clarifies The Crown is a fictional dramatizationBuckingham Palace has a spyThe first episode of season three introduces us to the Surveyor of the Queens Pictures Sir Anthony Blunt He held the position for 27 years For the first 19 years of his term he worked as a spy for the Soviet Union and went undetected After serious suspicion and multiple interrogations he confessed in exchange for immunity from prosecution However he got much more than the prosecution and remained and kept his role for another 8 years The Crown shows how the royal family kept Blunt in his role despite his confession It was implied that this was to protect the reputation of Britains intelligence forces We also see Blunt blackmail Prince Philip with a portrait of him done by Osteopath Stephen Ward This was in reference to the scandal that rocked the royal marriage in season 2 However the larger reason seemed to be the protection of the royal honor that made them not reveal Blunts truth HHowever when Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979 she publicly outed him in the House of Commons in November of that year and a media storm followed Following this the Queen stripped Anthony Blunt of his knighthood and though he remained in London Blunt lived as a recluse until he died of a heart attack in 1983 at age 75Royal CousinsIn an episode that puts the spotlight on mental health Princess Margaret sister of Queen Elizabeth II discovers that five of her cousins whom she thought to be dead were alive and living in a mental hospital in 1941 Princess Margaret who faces her own mental health issues in the episode confronts the Queen Mother She is horrified by her mothers justification of the familys decision to erase the memory of the pair from public knowledge She blamed it on the 1936 abdication that thrust her husband onto the throne and suddenly made the purity of her familys bloodline a subject of international interest Their professionally diagnosed idiocy and imbecility would make people question the integrity of the bloodlinehellipcan you imagine the headlines if it were to get out What people would sayrdquo she said on the showWhen an intruder broke into the Queens chamberIn what can be called one of the biggest security scandals in British history a man entered the royal residence through an unlocked window The 31yearold Michael Fagan scaled the walls of the palace and entered the Queens chamber while she slept on the morning of July 9 1982 He broke into the palace after a night of heavy drinking and he was an unemployed decorator back then When the Queen woke up to find him she used the phone at her bedside to call security but when nobody got back she got out of bed and went to fetch the guard However it was not his first breakin in the palace I walked straight in he said during his trial about the first incident in which he claimed to have tried out several thrones I was surprised I wasnt captured straight away I could have been a rapist or something I knew I could break the security system because it was so weak Fagan saidOn The Crown we see the Queen arranging a private meeting with him to listen to his problems But Fagan was also informed to never mention his private audience with the QueenSeason 5 of The Crown will start streaming on Netflix from November 9