Here, the Queen (played by Olivia Colman) visits the Welsh mining village of Aberfan following a disaster. I know that Princess Anne's kidnapping was considered as an obvious thing to dramatize. There's one episode allotted to Bubbikins,' he says. There's one episode allotted to Lord Mountbatten's coup. 'You give one whole episode to the tragedy of Aberfan, and the last two episodes are allotted to Charles and Camilla. 'Maybe Peter Morgan just needed time to figure out how he can make Anne's kidnapping all about Philip's feelings.'īut according to Lacey, there simply wasn't time to include the attack on the Queen's daughter.

'I still think it's illustrative of a very disjointed storytelling approach and one that favors Man Pain,' she wrote of the exclusion of the attempted kidnapping. In a now-deleted Twitter thread, Heather Cocks of the Pop Culture blog Go Fug Yourself suggested that despite the show ostensibly being about the Queen, Morgan is partial to storylines that center male emotions. Neither of those events appear on screen. And in 1974, there was an attempted kidnapping of the Queen's only daughter, arguably the most dramatic royal event which could have been covered. Notably Princess Anne married her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips in 1973, squarely within the timeline of The Crown's season three.

The events he chooses to leave out of the plot are, perhaps, just as telling as what he includes. Morgan is painting a version of history, and he's picking and choosing which moments best highlight his point of view. It's also fairly critical of the Queen, going so far as to suggest that she had to feign her grief when visiting the families who lost children at Aberfan. This season is undeniably sympathetic to Prince Charles and his position within the royal family, essentially waiting for his mother to die to fully realize his role. Erin Doherty as Princess Anne in season three of The Crown.

The crown by robert lacey