Synopsis
The Crown Season 3 (2019) — watch all 10 episodes online on iFILM, now set in the 1960s and '70s with a new cast: Olivia Colman takes over as Elizabeth, Tobias Menzies as Philip, Helena Bonham Carter as Margaret.
Harold Wilson arrives at Downing Street and the Palace receives him with barely concealed suspicion. A coal tip collapses onto a primary school in Aberfan, killing 116 children; Elizabeth's slow response to visit becomes the season's moral reckoning. Charles is sent to Wales to learn the language ahead of his investiture as Prince of Wales — where he finds himself unexpectedly sympathetic to the nationalists — and falls for Camilla Shand against everyone's wishes. Philip watches the moon landing and feels the specific smallness of a life he never chose. Margaret's marriage to Lord Snowdon comes apart quietly, then all at once.
The Aberfan episode is the one that stays with you: forty minutes of near-silence that hit harder than most disaster films. Stream The Crown Season 3 online on iFILM.
10 episodes
S3·E1Olding
The royal family mourns the passing of Winston Churchill. The United Kingdom ushers in a new prime minister, the Labour Party's Harold Wilson whom Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth hear might be a Soviet spy.
S3·E2Margaretology
While Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon visit the USA, the queen, at the bidding of Harold Wilson, asks them to make a side trip to Washington, D.C. to ask President Johnson for financial assistance for the United Kingdom.
S3·E3Aberfan
A horrible disaster in the Welsh town of Aberfan leaves scores of children dead, but when the Queen takes a week to decide to visit the town to offer solace to its people, she must confront her reasons for postponing the trip.
S3·E4Bubbikins
Left without a home by a political coup in Athens, Philip's eccentric mother, Princess Alice of Greece, is invited to live in Buckingham Palace by the Queen.
S3·E5Coup
While the Queen travels abroad to learn about horse training, unhappiness among the British elite with the devaluation of the pound involves Lord Mountbatten in a plan to oust Harold Wilson.
S3·E6Tywysog Cymru
Prince Charles is sent to Aberystwyth to learn Welsh from an ardent nationalist in preparation for the ceremony for his investiture as Prince of Wales.
S3·E7Moondust
The 1969 moon landing occasions a mid-life crisis in Prince Philip, who thinks of the adventures he has missed as the Queen's consort.
S3·E8Dangling Man
Charles visits the exiled Duke of Windsor in his Paris chateau, only to find him very ill. But will the Queen make peace with her uncle before he dies?
S3·E9Imbroglio
While Princess Anne dates her elder brother's polo rival Andrew Parker Bowles, Prince Charles falls deeply in love with Camilla Shand causing the Queen Mother and Lord Mountbatten to interfere.
S3·E10Cri de Coeur
As her marriage falls apart, Princess Margaret finds solace in the arms of a much younger landscape gardener. The Queen and the nation celebrate Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee.
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