They don't know about the Aberfan mining disaster, in which 116 children and 28 adults died, and they haven't heard of Princess Alice, Prince Philip's mother, a chain-smoking Greek nun. Most Americans watching The Crown aren't familiar with Harold Wilson, the Queen's first Prime Minister from the Labour party, who is played by Jason Watkins in season three. If you're looking for details about a specific historic event or a person in a previous season, or the upcoming one, check out all our Crown coverage here.
We report extensively on the TV series, often fact-checking episodes.
To mark the final epiosdes of The Crown, T&C is republishing this story about the show's accuracy, and how asking if it's true or not is much more complicated than rigorously checking the facts.
