By focusing on the King's mortality, the show creates immediate empathy for a family usually seen as distant and untouchable.
With a reported budget of £100 million for the season, the production design and cinematography (especially the Malta and Sandringham sequences) are cinematic in scale. "The Crown" Wolferton Splash(2016)
The episode opens in 1947 with renouncing his foreign titles to marry Princess Elizabeth . As the years progress, the couple moves to Malta, where they enjoy a relatively normal life while Philip serves in the Royal Navy. By focusing on the King's mortality, the show
King George VI did have a lung removed in a makeshift operating room at Buckingham Palace in 1951. The Malta Years As the years progress, the couple moves to
The emotional heart of the episode. Harris depicts a man burdened by a crown he never wanted and a body that is failing him.