id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Olivia Colman

Netflix I'm a republican (in the not-so-keen-on-monarchies-as-government sense). Coming from Spain, a country with a royal family to endure, I've never been one for romanticizing the institution. So I first approached The Crown, the Netflix drama about the British Queen Elizabeth II and her family, with hesitation. I quickly became a loyal subject.

It's been two long years since season 2 of this historical soap opera was released. And with season 3, a few things have changed. Instead of opting for aging technology or prosthetics, The Crown's main stars have been brilliantly recast to look older. Olivia Colman, co-star of Fleabag and winner of an Oscar for The Favourite, replaces Claire Foy as an older version of Queen Elizabeth II. Tobias Menzies (Outlander) takes over from Matt Smith as her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. And Helena Bonham Carter sets her inner diva free as Princess Margaret. 

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