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The Crown

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Thanks to a £100 million budget and nearly half a million viewers during the opening weekend only, Netflix produced another great success with the original TV series "The Crown". They used the fascinating story of the Royal Family, that is able to charm and entertain not only the British, but also the rest of Europe and the American audiences (as the success of the drama Downtown Abbey has shown).  It's quite surprising that they made a biopic about a living monarch, and even more astonishing the fact that they showed private problems such as the crisis between Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, or the scandalous relationship between Princess Margaret and the Group Captain Peter Townsend. The TV series covers a period of time that goes from 1947, year of the wedding between Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, up to 1955, with Anthony Eden as Prime Minister. I particularly enjoyed the way they portrayed Elizabeth as Queen. We can witness the development of her