An unexpected thing happens in the series finale of The Crown, which Netflix released today: Queen Elizabeth is the main character. This would seem to be the most predictable thing in the world, right? The Crown began with Elizabeth’s unexpected ascension to the British throne at the age of 25, …
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The Crown is back. The sixth and final season of Netflix’s royal drama begins with some Big D Energy: It’s all about Diana and Dodi, the young lovers whose whirlwind romance ended tragically in the Paris car crash that became the “Where were you?” moment for a generation. The first …
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The 2006 film The Queen, written by Peter Morgan, dramatizes the immediate aftermath of the death of Princess Diana. Much of the conflict comes from Queen Elizabeth’s reluctance to publicly address the grief of her subjects, with British Prime Minister Tony Blair pleading with her to speak. In the fourth …
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Queen Elizabeth II and the Windsors will return for one last go-around in the loosely fictionalized ringer, with the sixth and final season of The Crown premiering next month on Netflix. The show’s final 10 episodes will be split into two parts. Part one will largely take place in 1997, …
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The second season of the FX soccer docuseries Welcome to Wrexham poses an implicit question: Can a formerly floundering team recently purchased by two showbiz stars, a team that has made legions of new fans through a breakout TV hit, still be considered a group of scrappy, lovable underdogs? The …
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Sometimes you can just feel it when a celebrity is entering a flop era. I vividly remember watching Katy Perry using drag queens as props on Saturday Night Live in 2017, accompanied by a rapper who had recently used a homophobic slur, dressed in a hideous Beetlejuice-style striped jacket, and …
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As a British person, I’ve spent a lot of my adult life despairing about the direction of my country. From Brexit, to our disastrous Conservative government ushering in an era of inequality, corruption and division, it’s been a steady drip-feed of bad things happening. Truthfully, I’ve now become accustomed to …
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When I heard that there was going to be a Coronation Concert at Windsor Palace to celebrate the crowning of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, my first thought was: “Wow, who would voluntarily perform at that?” Some international viewers might have expected the biggest stars the U.K. has to …
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Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, Take That, and Nicole Scherzinger were among the artists to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III at a star-studded concert Sunday at Windsor Castle. Perry — performing on arguably her biggest stage since the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show — delivered a rendition of “Roar” …
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Andrew Lloyd Webber has shared the official version of “Make a Joyful Noise,” the specially commissioned anthem he composed and premiered during Saturday’s Coronation of Their MajestiesKing Charles III&Queen Camilla. The studio version was performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Choir of Westminster Abbey, the Fanfare Trumpeters of the …
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