The Crown: 5 episodes to (re) discover the story of Prince Philip

Traveling the reign of Elisabeth II, The Crown highlights the traditions of the Crown.Although remaining a fiction, the series allows us to better understand the different personalities of the British royal family.Among them, the Duke of Edinburgh, rather discreet in appearance, but whose fairly important role we were able to discover that he had with his wife.Back on a few episodes of the Netflix series which thus allow you to learn more about Prince Philip, who died at 99 years on April 9.

Season 1, Episode 1: Wedding

The Crown begins a few years before the coronation of the current Queen of England.The series opens with another striking fact in the life of Elisabeth, while it was still his father, King George VI who reigned over the United Kingdom: his marriage to Philip.And the least documented on the history of the British royal family were able to discover the origins of her husband.Born Prince of Greece and Denmark, he must indeed give up his titles, but also to his religion (Orthodox) and his nationality in order to marry the heiress of the English throne.As a member of the Royal Navy since 1939, and in view of the thorny past of his family, he does not seem to see a real constraint there.Adopting also the name of Mountbatten, which he holds from his British maternal grandparents, he received in exchange the title of Duke of Edinburgh on his wedding, in 1947.

Season 1, episode 5: the coronation

Five years later, Philip Mountbatten became the United Kingdom Prince Consort, when Élisabeth becomes Queen.Coming only half the first season of The Crown, the episode of the coronation shows both the influence exerted by her husband on the course of the ceremony, or the few concessions to which he had to bend.This is how we discover, on the one hand, that it was he who wanted the coronation to be filmed by British television, in an attempt to bring together the monarchy with the people ... and on the other handleaves, when it was when Élisabeth II rose to the throne that he had to give up what was probably the most dear to him, his military career, Philip seems to have trouble acceptingPut entirely at the service of his wife ... It is thus backward, in the series in any case, that he ends up agreeing to kneel before her during the coronation.And his adventures (literally, as figuratively?) Weighing only his discomfort of being both relegated to the background and both forced to act at the good will of the monarchy.

Season 2, episode 9: the boarding school

The following season, when Prince Philip is still embodied by Matt Smith, we discover more about his childhood, somewhat hectic ... Through flashbacks, the ninth episode of season 2 of The Crown returns to the chaotic courseof the one who was still only a young prince of Greece, left to himself when his family is close to Nazism, and who will eventually follow the Jewish leader of a German school, forced to flee, untilScotland.It is because he fulfilled himself at the Gordonstoun boarding school, after having lived hell, that he insists that his son Charles was in turn sent there.Except that not having the same nature as his father, the young heir hated this experience based on camaraderie and physical effort.Relations between father and son seem already complicated ...

Season 3, episode 7: Sluting

While the third season makes a radical casting change, all the actors in the series that gave the torch to others to respect the years that pass, it is Tobias Menzies that we therefore find in the skin of the princePhilip.Although present throughout the season again, still working in the shadows, it is an episode particularly centered on his Highness, where we discover his admiration for the Apollo 11 mission.Do you know, the one who saw the first man walk on the moon in 1969?Well passionate about the subject, Prince Consort wishes to meet the incredible crew, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.But his interview with the three astronauts disappoints him, finding before him men ultimately ordinary.What animated him above all was the idea of exploration, when he tends to abandon his responsibilities as Prince Consort ... He then realizes that he must find a meaning in his life.

Season 4, episode 2: her relationship with Diana

You will not have escaped it, the last season of The Crown made a lot of talk about it when it was released at the end of last year.For good reason: this season 4 explores the time when Diana Spencer entered the royal family, at the very late 1970s.We discover an affectionate, almost paternal relationship between the young woman and Prince Philip, who was born from the Balmoral test in the second episode.An episode certainly largely made up of fictitious scenes, the idea that the future princess of Wales (and Margaret Thatcher) was subjected to such a series of tests having in any case been refuted.The fact remains that Prince Consort has certainly been enchanted by that which we will call Lady Di, since we know that they will then maintain a tender epistolary correspondence, the Duke of Edinburgh signing all his letters from a "withAll my love, pa ".

Find the entire Crown on Netflix.A streaming platform offered as an option at SFR, at only 7.99 euros per month for a screen, 11.99 euros per month for two screens, and 15.99 euros per month for four screens.Without obligation offers.

Sources: Allociné, Vanity Fair, Slate, Madame Figaro

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