The Crown season three sees the Netflix series jump forward a number of years with a new cast playing the lead roles. The third series will also introduce Prince Charles (played by Josh O’Connor) and Camilla (Emerald Fennell) as major characters in the plot. Ahead of its release, screenwriter Peter Morgan has hinted at the storyline, speaking of how Prince Charles was ‘forced’ to marry Princess Diana.
The Crown season three has been officially announced to return to Netflix in November 2019.
Starring Olivia Colman in the lead role of Elizabeth II, the series will also star Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret and Tobias Menzies as Prince Phillip.
The series is written by showrunner and screenwriter Peter Morgan, who also wrote The Queen back in 2006 and the first two seasons of the show.
In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Morgan revealed more about the series, including its inclusion of adult versions of the Queen’s children Charles and Anne (Erin Doherty).
He revealed that season three will examine Charles’ early relationship with Camilla when they first met in the 1970s.
This follows the period before he met and married Diana Spencer (Emma Corrin), Morgan revealed to the publication.
He said of the relationships: “People always assume Charles cheated on Diana with Camilla.
“It’s absolutely the wrong way round. He was deeply in love with Camilla and forced to marry Diana.”
Although Diana has been cast, she will not appear in the series until the fourth season of the show, which is likely to launch in 2020.
Prince Charles reportedly began his relationship with Camilla Shand back in 1971 but it ended when he went abroad with the Royal Navy in 1973.
Many royal biographers have speculated that the relationship ended as it was deemed that Camilla was unsuitable to become a member of the royal family.
This was corroborated in Gyles Brandreth’s book Charles and Camilla: Portrait of a Love Affair in 2007.
In the book, he attributed Charles’s cousin and godmother Patricia Mountbatten saying: “With hindsight, you can say that Charles should have married Camilla when he first had the chance.
“They were ideally suited, we know that now. But it wasn’t possible.”
Prince Charles married Diana on July 29, 1981, and the pair shared two children, Prince William and Prince Harry.
However, Prince Charles rekindled his relationship with Camilla when the marriage began to break down.
The pair were divorced in December 1992 when then Prime Minister John Major announced it to the House of Commons.
Diana tragically died on August 31, 1997, in a car crash in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris.
Prince Charles went on to marry Camilla in a civil marriage at Windsor Guildhall in 2005.
The new series of The Crown is likely to start addressing this moment in royal history when it returns.
The show has also cast Ben Daniels as Margaret’s husband Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Charles Dance as Lord Mountbatten and Marion Bailey as the Queen Mother as it continues the story of the royal family.
Given the timeframe of the new season, it is also likely that it will deal with the fallout between Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon and their subsequent divorce.
Express.co.uk will update this article as soon as more information is revealed about the plot.
The Crown season 3 will be released on Netflix on November 17.
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