The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are about to hit television screens with Netflix’s hit show The Crown announcing who will play the royal couple in its sixth and final season.
For the final season of The Crown, William will be played by two actors at different points in his life. A teenage William will be played by Rufus Kampa while a young adult William will be played by Ed McVey.
Kate, meanwhile, will be played by Meg Bellamy. For Kampa, McVey and Bellamy, this will be their first high-profile acting jobs.
Details of what will be covered by The Crown is always kept under wraps, but the confirmation that Kate is included means that their university romance at the University of St. Andrew’s in Scotland from 2002 to 2005 will feature in the show.
The fact that two actors have been cast to play William could indicate that the aftermath of Diana, Princess of Wales’s death will be a lingering storyline into the final season. Australian actress Elizabeth Debecki has been cast as the late Diana for the upcoming fifth season.
One thing is clear though, for the sixth and final season, and it comes straight from The Crown creator Peter Morgan himself: the last season will not bring the show into present-day. It will end sometime in the 2000s, though Morgan did not offer up where that marker would be.
The Crown premiered on Netflix in 2015 and has chronicled The Queen’s reign a decade at a time in every season. In the first two seasons, Her Majesty was portrayed as a young woman by Claire Foy. In the third and fourth seasons, Olivia Coleman played The Queen into middle age. In the upcoming fifth and sixth seasons, which follows The Queen through the ‘90s and 2000s, the Monarch will be played by Imelda Staunton.
The fifth season of The Crown is expected to premiere this autumn on Netflix and will touch upon the tumultuous ‘90s: the Wars of the Waleses between Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales and the infamous Panorama BBC interview are both expected to be plot points.
