The Princess of Wales is at the center of the new season of "The Crown", which Netflix is putting online this Sunday, November 15 and which we were able to see in preview.
Margaret Thatcher is also omnipresent in this particularly anticipated fourth round of ten episodes.
Here are five good reasons to spend Sunday on your noble sofa in front of this series which confirms its excellence, both in substance and in form.
1. Diana's misfortunes
In this family where we wear both the crown and the mask, it is indeed the only character to move us.
This decade 80, it is obviously that of the arrival of Diana Spencer, present from the first to the last episode.
We see Lady Di's fairy tale immediately turn into a nightmare.
From the day after the engagement, where Charles pronounces the famous phrase “Everything depends on what we call being in love”, Diana is disillusioned.
Her husband Prince leaves for six weeks without her, leaving her locked in his golden prison with no one to talk to.
Apart from her rival Camilla Parker Bowles, in a lunch scene that will become cult.
In ten episodes, Diana goes from a frail and smiling young woman, who impresses the entire royal family, to a bruised and angry wife.
"The Crown" insists on the eating disorders of the princess in sequences which will make speak ... Her loneliness upsets as well as the happy parentheses where she tries to believe again in her marriage, as during this official trip to Australia in 1983. But Charles loves another.
And his family is never alarmed, convinced that everything will be fine if the two spouses take it upon themselves.
The blunders or mistakes of taste of this too popular princess who does not hesitate to rollerblade on the carpets of Buckingham Palace or to dance on stage for her husband end up marginalizing her.
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In this difficult role, the beginner actress Emma Corrin, 25, shines.
His resemblance is obvious.
His misfortune stirs the guts.
It steals the show from all the other actors installed for a season.
Kind of like Diana did back then in the hearts of the British.
2. Gillian Anderson, stunning Iron Lady
"The Crown" tailor-made for Margaret Thatcher!
The Prime Minister arrives at 10 Downing Street at the start of the season.
It therefore begins in May 1979 and lasts precisely 11 years and 6 months since Thatcher is packing in the last episode.
It is the American actress Gillian Anderson, unforgettable agent Scully in "X-Files" who has the heavy task of playing the Iron Lady.
All in excess, obviously, but how else to embody such a cold, authoritarian and mannered woman?
Gillian Anderson, however, is not as cartoonish as Meryl Streep who played the character in 2011 in the cinema.
To get older, the pretty American doesn't skimp on makeup and prostheses and sports a voluminous wig.
However, at 52 years old, Gillian Anderson is almost the same age as Thatcher when she took the head of the British government ...
Gillian Anderson plays (all in excess) Margaret Thatcher.
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But of its policy, it is ultimately little question.
The clashes in Northern Ireland are quickly mentioned during a shock episode.
The war in the Falklands is another's common thread.
And the miners' strikes, yet the most defining moment of his mandate, and already told in many English films (“Billy Elliot”, “The Full Monty”), are simply skipped.
Because no misunderstanding: "The Crown" speaks only of the royal family.
The Prime Minister is only there to recount his sometimes tumultuous relations with the Queen.
It is because of her that the sovereign left for the first time her right of reserve to force her Prime Minister to condemn the apartheid regime in South Africa.
The writers constantly have fun confronting two coldnesses, especially during a delightful stay, with a hunting party, at Balmoral, the summer residence of the royal family or to dissect their relationships with their children in a tasty fourth episode.
3. The little story at the service of the big
His Majesty's subjects will doubtless learn nothing.
But the average person will go from surprise to surprise.
Each episode is built around a little story that illustrates the big one.
Of this Paris-Dakar 1982 where Mark Thatcher, Margaret's son, disappears, which puts the whole English state in panic.
From the death in an attack of Louis Mountbatten, Prince Philip's uncle, to the equally tragic fate of the queen's cousins, locked in an asylum ... or to this stranger who broke into Buckingham Palace and surprised Elisabeth II waking up.
We never cease to be amazed by all these anecdotes which made the headlines and which we had forgotten.
And we constantly wonder about the part of fiction and reality.
From this point of view, season 4 of "The Crown" is most successful.
4. The last salute of a royal casting
Margaret Thatcher and Diana Spencer may make a shattering appearance: the star of "The Crown" remains Elisabeth II.
In the role, Olivia Colman is imperial and much more assertive than Claire Foy who played the queen in the first two seasons and who makes an appearance as a wink.
Helena Bonham Carter also capsizes our hearts as a drifting princess, which sinks every time she loses a rank in protocol order.
And of course all the children, of which just like the Queen we do not know which is our favorite.
Even Josh O'Connor, is perfect in that, ungrateful of a torn and cheeky Prince Charles.
All bring their stone to portray this toxic clan without realizing it.
Olivia Colman (Elizabeth II) and Josh O'Connor (Prince Charles).
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But unfortunately the actors are starting to be too young for their role… This season is a curtsy for them.
Without a farewell, they will also give way to a new generation of comedians for a fifth season which should take place in the 1990s.
5. London as you've never seen it
Masterful sets, both in London, Scotland, Australia and New York.
Impeccable dresses and tuxedos, even Balmoral's hunting outfits are perfect.
"The Crown", once again dazzles.
And for good reason, with its budget of 100 million pounds, or 111 million euros, it is one of the most expensive series ever made in Great Britain.
For the Queen, "The Crown" is in splendor.
To the delight of viewers, who are already asking for more, quickly!