So what number of of those real-life areas will you see in The Crown?
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It’s been praised for its meticulous analysis, however there was solely to this point the makers of The Crown may go when filming the drama.
It was by no means very possible that the royal palaces would throw open their doorways to the cameramen.
Instead, the producers for the Netflix sequence scoured the nation for look-alike venues together with a disused airbase, an East London Park and Rochester High Street.
However inauthentic – and unbelievable in some instances – they actually made up for it with environment, as viewers of the newly launched sixth and remaining sequence of The Crown can see for themselves.
How many of those unlikely British backdrops will you see smuggled into the motion?
Reeds School, Surrey
Reeds is an unbiased boys boarding faculty in Cobham, Surrey. Although the mock Tudor buildings appears a shocking match, it doubles for medieval Eton College within the remaining sequence of The Crown
Eton College exhibiting the grounds, buildings and the fifteenth century chapel
Princess Diana of Wales , Prince Charles , and Prince Harry accompany Prince William on his first day at Eton College alongside his Housemaster Dr Andrew Gailey in 1995
Elizabeth Debicki and Dominic West are the Prince and Princess of Wales within the display screen model
RAF Upper Hayford, Oxfordshire
The website of RAF Upper Heyford stands just a few miles outdoors Bicester. It was utilized by Bomber Command within the Second World War and later by the United States Airforce. Today the grounds stand empty – however they had been superb for the makers of The Crown once they needed to stage a recreation of Diana’s 1997 funeral
The producers used a ‘inexperienced display screen’ backdrop, which allowed the movie so as to add a extra convincing background at a later date
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince William, Earl Spencer, Prince Harry and Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales comply with the coffin of Diana, Princess of Wales in September 1997
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Prince Harry, Charles Spencer, ninth Earl Spencer, Prince William, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh watch as Guardsmen of the Prince of Wales Company of the Welsh Guards carry the coffin of Diana
Royal Holloway, Surrey
Royal Holloway on the Thames at Egham is a part of the University of London. According to structure historian Pevsner, it’s the ‘most ebullient Victorian constructing within the Home Counties’. The flamboyant type is actually a great distance from the restrained look of St Andrews University on the Scottish coast, the place William and Kate studied. Nonetheless, Royal Holloways’ Founders Building was used for William’s room and the St Andrews library
St Andrews is the oldest college within the English talking world. Pictured are the garden and quadrangle at St Salvators school, the place Prince William studied geography
Prince William’s jumper and stance spring to mind by by Ed Mcvey in The Crown
Oundle, Northamptonshire
The fairly Northamptonshire market city of Oundle – residence to a well-known public faculty – was used for scenes set close to Balmoral. In specific a go to to a fictional images store, D Muir
The Netflix drama recreates a well-known photoshoot with Charles and the boys and devises a plotline to clarify it
Prince Charles in a kilt together with his two sons in the summertime of 1997, the yr their mom died
Rochester, Kent
Rochester High Street grew to become Windsor – and its Guildhall grew to become the setting for the 2005 marriage ceremony of Charles and Camilla
The Rochester Guildhall, now a museum, was constructed within the seventeenth century
Prince Charles and Camilla after leaving the chapel service at Windsor Castle in 2005
Dominic West and Olivia Williams protray Prince Charles and Camilla on their marriage ceremony day
Canary Wharf, Docklands
No 1 Canada Square, centre, dominates the skyline at Canary wharf. The location was used to recommend the the Canadian metropolis of Vancouver
A younger Prince William is greeted by crowds of women at Canada Place on a go to to Vancouver in 1998
Victoria Park, Hackney
Thanks to its title, Victoria Park in London will all the time have a royal affiliation, however is never mistaken for The Mall – the lengthy drive resulting in Buckingham Palace
Beau Gadsdon and Viola Prettejohn play Margaret and Elizabeth. In this scene, the princesses stroll down The Mall the morning following VE Day May 8 1945. The actual location is Victoria Park in east London
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
The Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich, designed by Sir Christopher Wren. It was used to movie scenes celebrating the late Queen fiftieth marriage ceremony anniversary in 1997
The Naval College doubled as Westminster Abbey for The Crown
Imelda Staunton pictured as Queen Elizabeth II on the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh pictured at Westminster Abbey on the day of their fiftieth marriage ceremony anniversary
