Season 1 • Episode 5
LatestThe final film shows the Queen (played by Diana Quick) confronting one last personal and constitutional challenge: Prince Charles' desire to marry Camilla Parker Bowles.
The Queen was a 2009 British drama-documentary showing Queen Elizabeth II at different points during her life. Broadcast on Channel 4 over five consecutive nights from 29 November 2009, the Queen was portrayed by a different actress in each episode. The Queen was portrayed by Emilia Fox, Samantha Bond, Susan Jameson, Barbara Flynn and Diana Quick. Katie McGrath played Princess Margaret in the first episode and Lesley Manville played Margaret Thatcher in the third episode. The series was co-funded by the American Broadcasting Company, the network which aired the series in the US. This reunited Emilia Fox and Katie McGrath who had played sisters in BBC One's Merlin.
Acting
Five radically different interpretations of the same woman
Production
Channel 4's prestige docudrama budget showing off
Costume
Five decades of royal fashion meticulously recreated
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Emilia Fox and Katie McGrath's first reunion since playing Morgana and Morgause in Merlin — basically witch sisters to royal sisters.
Channel 4's co-production with ABC was a rare transatlantic prestige play, airing just before The Crown made royal dramas Netflix's territory.
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