FANS OF The Crown, Netflix’s widely acclaimed series, can now go behind the scenes of the historical drama.
Secrets, interviews and historical details behind the first season are featured in The Crown: The Official Companion by the series’ historical consultant Robert Lacey.
Lacey reveals what was fact and fiction in the biographical story of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, played by Claire Foy.
This official companion book to the first episodes, which covered 1947 to 1955, documents Elizabeth’s journey from 25-year-old wife and mother to monarch.
With a mix of original photographs and stills from the TV series, Lacey adds in-depth details – from Elizabeth’s marriage to Philip and the death of her father King George VI to her being crowned at 25 – painting an intimate portrait of life inside Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street.
- The Crown: The Inside History by Robert Lacey (Allen & Unwin) RRP $39.99.
