Commonwealth international locations love to look at The Crown

THE members of the Royal Family insist they don’t watch The Crown – however their Commonwealth topics actually do.

Streaming service Netflix, which is notoriously secretive about its viewing figures, has by no means printed a worldwide viewers breakdown for the present, which completed final month.

But listening figures from the Mail’s Crown-based podcast – which delved into each episode of the ultimate sequence – have thrown up an intriguing account of the place the TV drama is more likely to have proved the largest hit.

Meg Bellamy stars as Kate Middleton within the pupil vogue present at which it’s stated Prince William actually observed his future spouse. The closing sequence of The Crown lined the interval from the demise of Diana to Prince William’s time at St Andrews University

Prince William, as performed by Ed McVey. The Crown seems to have made a robust displaying in Commonwealth Countries

The first kiss between Kate and William as dramatised within the Netflix sequence

Courtiers have stated that members of the Royal Family don’t watch The Crown – in contrast to their followers in Commonwealth international locations

While the United Kingdom got here out high for tuning into the Crown: Fact or Fiction with some 40 per cent of viewers share, Commonwealth nations made an unexpectedly robust displaying. 

Australia, for instance, accounted for practically 17 per cent of listeners.

The King, who’s head of state, is because of go to in October. Perhaps not coincidentally, this month Australia’s authorities delayed controversial plans to carry a referendum on changing King Charles as head of state.

Just over 4 per cent of downloads had been in Canada and three.6 per cent in New Zealand, the place Charles can also be head of state.

The different two international locations that made the highest six for downloads had been the United States, with 20.37 per, and Ireland, with 4.65 per cent.

Courtiers have repeatedly stated that members of the Royal Family don’t watch The Crown – apart from Prince Harry, who revealed in an interview final yr that he does his personal truth checks whereas watching it.

Released within the autumn, the ultimate sequence recreated the years between Diana’s tragic demise and the college romance of William and Kate.

Separate chart figures present an analogous image, with the podcast primary within the Apple Podcasts TV and Film listings in six Commonwealth international locations: Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Malta and Mauritius.

Other Commonwealth international locations tuning in embody Tanzania and Singapore, the place the podcast reached place two and three in the identical chart respectively.

These stats don’t reveal the ages of the listeners, however the newest Ofcom report confirmed that podcasts are principally favoured by youthful folks, with a rising viewers amongst listeners aged 25 to 44 – a key viewers for the monarchy.

Outside of the Commonwealth, the podcast has been standard in some sudden locations. 

The award-winning Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana in The Crown

The three Queens  seem in a ghostly scene from the ultimate sequence of the drama. From the left, Olivia Coleman, Imelda Staunton and Claire Foy

Charles and Camilla are performed by Olivia Williams and Dominic West 

It has topped the Apple Podcast TV and Film chart within the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the place the King visited for Cop28 in Dubai in November, in addition to in Estonia and Honduras.

It additionally reached quantity two within the Apple Podcast TV and Film chart in Iceland, Luxembourg, Nepal and Romania; quantity three in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Lithuania; quantity 4 in Greece, Slovakia and Norway and quantity 5 in Qatar and Indonesia.

Meanwhile, it has additionally been within the high ten of the identical chart in Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Austria, the Czech Republic and Switzerland.