Arthur's banter with Merlin comes from a place of friendship, but there's little justification for Queen Annis to turn on Merlin ("giving his other failings, he must have some talents") so it seems a bit harsh.
His growing confidence is shown, though, in his quick comebacks to Arthur - and it's telling that despite Arthur's disparaging remarks, Merlin still gets to ride a horse in his entourage while many of the royal guard have to walk. If anything, Merlin has changed the least since we last saw him, because his personal objectives and his place in the court are unchanged. This growth in character is subtle but significant and gives the story a more grown-up, responsible tone. Arthur is even more dedicated to his knights than before and the sense that it's a brotherhood with attendant moral obligations is often repeated meanwhile Gwen has become a true stateswoman who's prepared to rule the court in Arthur's absence, dispensing tactical counsel, friendly advice and ruthless judgement in equal measure. Nonetheless it's obvious things have changed in the three years since Arthur and Gwen were married, most noticeably the royal couple's acceptance of their leadership role. A quiet, personal moment at the start gives way to a striking first shot of the main hall with its Round Table, but we actually spend very little time inside Camelot during the episode.
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The Regency house also provides many of the interiors of Windsor Castle throughout the drama – with filming taking place in the Elizabeth Saloon and the Regent's Gallery.VERDICT This series opener wastes no time getting back to the action, even if it is clearly setting up the pieces for bigger confrontation next week. The distinctive garden of Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire can be seen in season three's "Margaretology", with its carefully-clipped shrubbery. Located near Inverness, it has classic Scottish baronial architecture and plenty of turrets just like the real thing. In previous seasons it's also been the site of the much-ridiculed barbecue from that 1969 documentary Royal Family.Īrdverikie House in the Scottish Highlands has proved the perfect stand-in for external shots of Balmoral throughout every season of The Crown. The Royals have a summer residence in Aberdeenshire, Balmoral Castle – the location of many a royal getaway, and notably the key location for The Crown season four episode 'The Balmoral Test', when both British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Lady Diana Spencer (the future Princess Diana) meet the extended royal family for the first time, and are supposedly subjected to a series of 'tests'.
Glynhafod Junior School in the Cynon Valley was used as a stand-in for Pantglas to film the scenes in the lead-up to the collapse, and a local street was transformed into a 1960s terrace of miners' houses – with a machine brought in to recreate the torrential rain, according to Wales Online. The children of Aberfan attended Pantglas Junior School, and this is where the majority of the 144 victims died. Cwmaman is located a handful of miles away from the site of the coal waste tip which – one morning in 1966 – catastrophically collapsed and sent a deluge of slurry down the mountain slope onto the village of Aberfan. Where was the Aberfan episode filmed?īecause of the sensitivity of the subject matter, episode three of The Crown's third season – which covers the Aberfan disaster – was actually shot at Cwmaman in Wales's Cynon Valley.
This Grade II-listed neo-classical villa is owned and operated by Chelmsford City Council it used to host the annual music festival, V Festival, and is often hired out for weddings and private events. Instead, they filmed scenes as The Hylands House in Essex, which looks strikingly similar to the northern facade of the US President's HQ.
Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones may have travelled to Washington DC to meet with President Lyndon B Johnson, but actors Helena Bonham Carter and Ben Daniels didn't get to make the trip for season three.
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