Tom Cruise and Queen Elizabeth ‘really hit it off’ over tea

The Crown chronicles Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign on the Netflix series, but some of the late monarch’s loved ones are not fans of the fictionalized drama.

Looking the part! Queen Consort Camilla sparkled at King Charles III’s first state banquet — donning the late Queen Elizabeth II’s bejeweled Belgian Sapphire Tiara for the big event.

Still missing Her Majesty. Queen Consort Camilla honored the late Queen Elizabeth II while speaking with guests during a royal reception two months after her death.

with a touching nod to .On November 12, joined at Royal Albert Hall in London for the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance wearing a Self-Portrait chiffon blazer dress with a red poppy pin to honor fallen military members. She also took the opportunity to pay homage to her late grandmother-in-law by dipping into Queen Elizabeth's expansive jewelry collection.Middleton wore a sentimental pair of pearl drop earrings that were gifted to then Princess Elizabeth on her 1947 wedding day by Hakim of Bahrain.

Continuing tradition. King Charles III attended the Royal British Legion’s Festival of Remembrance in London on Saturday, November 12, for the first time since Queen Elizabeth II died.

Moving forward, the public holiday will be called the King’s Birthday in honour of King Charles III, who is now the head of the British Monarchy.

UK former premier Tony Blair has added his voice to those saying The Crown is using the fifth season to present events in the 1990s on screen as real, when in fact they have been invented. 

Lesley Manville "always thought" she was going to play Queen Elizabeth on 'The Crown. ' The 66-year-old star is the latest actress to take on the role of the late monarch's sister Princess Margaret - who died in 2002 at the age of 71 - in the Netflix biographical series but thought when she was asked to meet with creator Peter Morgan that she would be playing the Queen herself before the part went to Imelda Staunton. She said: "It’s funny.

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of the fifth season of The Crown, which debuts all 10-episodes on Netflix on November 9

Royal growing pains? King Charles III didn’t always have a “warm and fuzzy” relationship with late mother Queen Elizabeth II, according to royal expert Christopher Andersen.

Nigel Lythgoe, a 12-time Emmy nominee and co-creator and executive producer of So You Think You Can Dance, has signed with A3 Artists Agency for representation. Lythgoe also served as executive producer of Pop Idol and TV juggernaut, American Idol.

Dame Judi Dench is accusing ‘The Crown’ of being “cruelly unjust” to the Royal Family. The Oscar winner, 87, who was made a Companion of Honour in 2005 and played Queen Victoria in the films ‘Mrs Brown’ and ‘Victoria and Abdul’, also accused the Netflix show of “sensationalism” and said it should open with a warning it is “fictionalised drama” and not historical fact. She said in a letter to The Times newspaper on Wednesday (19.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has called her husband Prince Harry's late grandmother Queen Elizabeth II the "most shining example" of female leadership. The British monarch passed away aged 96 at her Balmoral Castle estate in Scotland on 8 September while Meghan and Harry, who live in California, were visiting the U. K.

Judi Dench wrote in an open letter published Wednesday in of London that  ought to have a «fictionalised drama» disclaimer before the start of every episode as the series inches closer «to our present times.»The 87-year-old actress said that «no one is a greater believer in artistic freedom» than her but «this cannot go unchallenged.» She insists that «the closer the drama comes to our present times, the more freely it seems willing to blur the lines between historical accuracy and crude sensationalism.»Dench — who portrayed Queen Victoria in the 1997 film and 2017's, as well as Queen Elizabeth in 1998's — also wrote that «while many will recognise for the brilliant but fictionalized account of events that it is, I fear that a significant number of viewers, particularly overseas, may take its version of history as being wholly true.»She added that the «sensationalism» — that King Charles «plotted for his mother to abdicate, for example, or once suggested his mother’s parenting was so deficient that she might have deserved a jail sentence» -- is «cruelly unjust to the individuals and damaging to the institution they represent.» Dench was referring to former U.K. Prime Minister John Major (1990-1997), who responded over the weekend to rumors in the U.K. media that one of the plotlines in season 5 includes Prince Charles suggesting in 1991 he wanted Major's support to dethrone his mother.

and are embarking on non-fiction project, but that doesn't mean the production is drama free.    will be the primary subjects of a docuseries directed by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus.

Meghan Markle has shared her working from home life with husband Prince Harry, as she revealed the pair often get through tasks side-by-side in their home office.The Duchess of Sussex, 41, has opened up on her life in a new interview with US magazine Variety, speaking about everything from Queen Elizabeth's death to her and 38 year old Harry's favourite fast food restaurant and their home life. She said that working from home allows her and Harry to share "significant time" with their two children, Archie, three, and Lilibet, 16 months, and she even gave an insight into Harry's "24-hour time zone." Meghan, Harry and their children live in sprawling £12.5million ($14m) mansion in Montecito, California, where they moved following their 2020 departure from official royal life. She said: "We share an office.