«The Crown,» available in all its splendor Friday, qualifies as the epic masterwork from creator / writer
Peter Morgan, who has come at the modern Elizabethan era a couple
of ways now, most notably with the 2006 film «The Queen,» an intimate rumination on the burdens
of royalty in the scandal - driven infotainment era, when an aging Elizabeth (Helen Mirren, in an Oscar - winning performance) fought to comprehend the national grief and dismaying shift in protocol that followed the
tragic 1997
death of her ex-daughter-in-law, Diana.
These changes come in the wake
of poorly trained and disruptive animals, bites, and even
tragic pet deaths occurring on flights.