According to The Hollywood Reporter, the final six episodes of The Crown have officially been unveiled on Netflix. The show began in 2016, being written and created by Peter Morgan. The series told the tale of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign over the United Kingdom, which lasted 70 years. It indulged audiences in her marriage to Duke of Edinburgh; Phillip, and led all the way to Prince Charles’ wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles. 

The Hollywood Reporter claimed that Suzanne Mackie, a producer for The Crown, stated that, “It felt like a beautifully intended tribute to say goodbye, goodbye to our show, goodbye to our story, and goodbye to [Queen Elizabeth],” she continued by saying, “Peter knew right at the beginning, 10 years ago, that it would be 2005. He always said, ‘I want to end around the time when Camilla and Charles got married.’”

Mackie also told The Hollywood Reporter that as the sun sets on the complicated love stories featured in The Crown, the series is also only in the beginning stages of telling the story of Prince William and Kathrine Middleton. Mackie said, “In a way, what we were trying to do by reconciling Kate and William at the end of episode nine, was then have the final reconciliation, if you like, between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, in that they would finally be allowed to marry.” 

However, while Morgan knew when he wanted the show to end, audiences were anxious to see just how far The Crown would follow the royals into the future, especially with the death of Queen Elizabeth on September 8th, 2022. When explaining the show’s ending to The Hollywood Reporter, Mackie said that it “That felt like a profound note to end on, that there was something very simple and dignified and gracious, not least because, of course, in the time of Peter writing it, we didn’t know that the Queen would die, and of course she did.”