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IF you haven’t already binged all four seasons of the Netflix series The Crown, you really should look at the choices you’re making. The historical drama portrays the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth ll from 1947. The first season was released in 2016 but only came to South African Netflix in 2020. (Side note: South Africa was an important filming location for The Crown – scenes in the Amazon, Tonga and Australia were all filmed here!) We’ve been obsessed ever since, particularly with the marvellous Claire Foy’s portrayal of the younger queen in the first two seasons. Through her masterful performance we’re given a glimpse of what it might have been like for the young Elizabeth trying to balance her roles as mother and sovereign leader of the Commonwealth.

‘I was never playing the queen; I was playing Elizabeth Mountbatten,’ Claire says, ‘and so, in