How are Windsors and Romanovs really connected?
The sixth episode of the fifth season opens in World War I England, when King George WU (Richard Dillane) received a letter from the British prime minister suggesting that the government was willing to send a ship to Russia to save its pro-Russian relatives, the Romanovs, who had recently been deposed during the Russian Revolution.
Then a prisoner Tsar Nicholas II (aka Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov) was awakened by a soldier to announce that he and his wife Tsarnia Alexandra (aka Alexandra Feodorovna) is emotional, prompting Nicholas to exclaim, “That’s cousin George!”
However, their hopes were unfounded, and just minutes later, their entire family was murdered — thus revealing that the royal family had refused to help.
The episode then shows Queen Elizabeth II preparing for a meeting with Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation. It was revealed that Elizabeth and Prince Philip were related to the Romanov family, which prompted Philip to do some digging.
So how do families stick together?
Maria Feodorovnasister of Queen Elizabeth’s great-grandmother Queen Alexandramarry Tsar 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.
Like Crown describes, in fact, George refused to help save Nicholas, despite the two having a strong bond.
Did Diana notify Queen Elizabeth after her explosion Overview interview?
Incorrect.
Season five illuminates Diana’s infamous 1995 interview with Martin Bashir (Prasanna Puwanarajah) in the BBC documentary series Overviewin which she discusses the breakdown of her marriage to then-Prince Charles.
The series shows Diana herself informing Queen Elizabeth of the explosive interview, but that’s not at all what happened.
“It’s hard to beat the scenes depicting Diana supposedly summoning her courage and sending the Queen bombshell news she secretly taped an interview with Martin Bashir. OverviewDiana’s former personal secretary Patrick Jephson told walkie talkie November 8 “This part of the story has been made up, and is therefore reasonably obtainable Crown‘ academically correct detractors.”
How can he be so sure?
“I know it was made up because I was there,” he said, “and I can tell you the Princess didn’t quite muster up the courage she needed and gave me the job.”
