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favorite Imelda Staunton will play The Queen in her later years in season five; and, in addition, that season five will be the show's last.from the very start. As an actor it was a joy to see how both Claire Foy and Olivia Colman brought something special and unique to Peter Morgan’s scripts. I am genuinely honoured to be joining such an exceptional creative team and to be taking The Crown to its conclusion.
Morgan added that he'd come to the decision that the fifth season had to be the show's last."At the outset I had imaginedrunning for six seasons but now that we have begun work on the stories for season five it has become clear to me that this is the perfect time and place to stop," he said in a statement.
Staunton's casting is not a huge surprise; rumors of her new role have swirled for a while, and her husband, Jim Carter, recently let the news slip to
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