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Netflix’s The Crown has been renewed for a sixth and final season!

The royal series which was set to end after the fifth season (expected in 2021), has been renewed for another 10 episodes at Netflix taking the series into six seasons altogether!

Creator Peter Morgan confirmed the news, telling Variety,

“As we started to discuss the storylines for Series 5, it soon became clear that in order to do justice to the richness and complexity of the story we should go back to the original plan and do six seasons. To be clear, Series 6 will not bring us any closer to present-day — it will simply enable us to cover the same period in greater detail.”.

The sixth and final season is expected to follow the Royal Family’s life during the early 2000s (so there’s definitely no sign of Harry and Meghan portrayals) but Imelda Staunton will be reigning as Queen Elizabeth from season 5, through to the end!

Season 4 is scheduled to stream later this year with Gillian Anderson starring as Margaret Thatcher and Emma Corrin joining the cast as Princess Diana.