What is the connection between the Romanovs and the Windsors?
The sixth episode of season five opens in World War I–era Britain, when King George V (Richard Dillane) receives a letter from the British prime minister suggesting that the government was willing to send a ship to Russia to save their Russian relatives, the Romanovs, who had recently been overthrown in the Russian Revolution.
Later, the imprisoned Tsar Nicholas II (a.k.a. Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov) is awoken by a soldier who informs him that he and his wife Tsarnia Alexandra (a.k.a. Alexandra Feodorovna are being moved, which causes Nicholas to exclaim. “It’s cousin George!”
Their hopes were unfounded, however, as just minutes later, their entire family is murdered—thus revealing that the royal family refused to help.
In the next episode, Queen Elizabeth II prepares for a meeting. Boris Yeltsin, the president of the Russian Federation. Philip decides to investigate the matter, as it is discovered that Elizabeth and Prince Philip were related to the Romanovs.
What is the interplay between these families?
Maria Feodorovna, the sister of Queen Elizabeth’s great-grandmother Queen AlexandraMarriedCzar Alexander of Russia. Maria’s eldest son, the aforementioned Nicholas, was the last ruler of Russia—and also the first cousin of King George V, Elizabeth’s grandfather.
As The CrownIt appears that George, despite having a strong relationship with Nicholas, refused to save Nicholas.
After her explosive performance, did Diana notify Queen Elizabeth? Panorama interview?
It’s not.
Season five spotlights Diana’s famous 1995 interview with the BBC.Martin Bashir (Prasanna Puwanarajah) on the BBC documentary series PanoramaIn this interview, she discussed her divorce from Prince Charles.
It shows Diana, Queen Elizabeth giving a heads-up about the explosive interview. However, that is not what happened.
“It’s hard to beat the scenes depicting Diana allegedly summoning up her courage and dropping on the Queen the bombshell news that she had secretly recorded an interview with Martin Bashir for Panorama,”Diana’s former private secretaryPatrick Jephson Submitted The Telegraph Nov. 8. “This part of the story was made up, and therefore might reasonably earn the ire of The Crown‘s scholarly-exact detractors.”
How is he able to be so certain?
“I know it was made up because I was there,”He stated, “and I can tell you that the Princess absolutely failed to summon up the necessary courage and delegated the job to me.”