Another of my favourite scenes from ‘The Crown’. So much history to unpack in these scenes, as Churchill announces the Accession of Queen Elizabeth II. From the link to previous queens such as Elizabeth I and the dawn of a new reign, to Princess Margaret being told to wait as her sister is now Queen, to the foreboding figure of Queen Mary, the grandmother Elizabeth had always curtsied to, now curtsying to her, having just written to her pointing out that while the new queen mourned her father, s