The Crown is going out in a blaze of camp glory

Say what you like about Netflix and Peter Morgan, the producers and creator of The Crown respectively, but they’ve certainly gone out in a blaze of either glory or outrage. The final six episodes of the sixth season were released separately to the first four, and it isn’t hard to see why. Taken cumulatively, their daring blend of fantasy, heavily fictionalised historical events and mischievous provocation amount to nothing less than the send-off that this always divisive and perennially popular show has merited since it began in 2016.

It would take too long to detail all the divergences from the truth that the final episodes offer. Some of the most jaw-dropping moments, though, include a scene where Prince William outright asks Prince Charles whether he was involved in Princess Diana’s death and the suggestion that the Queen came close to abdicating in favour of her son around the time of his wedding to Camilla in April 2005.