The actors who will play Prince William and Kate Middleton in the sixth season of The Crown have been confirmed

The creators of the hit Netflix series The crown They have announced the new performers who will join the sixth season of the story about the British royal family. Prince William and Kate Middleton will be part of last season’s episodes.

Two actors were chosen to play the prince, the eldest son of Lady Di and Prince Carlos, and also heir to the crown: Rufus Kampa, 16Y Ed McVey, 21. Meanwhile, Meg Bellamy will be the actress who plays his wife Kate.

It opens in November

As production progresses into the last season, the fifth will be released on the platform in November and features an all-new cast that includes Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth.

Also, Jonathan Pryce plays Prince Philip, Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret, Dominic West as Prince Charles, Elizabeth Debicki as Diana Princess of Wales and Olivia Williams as Camilla Parker Bowles. Jonny Lee Miller will also appear as Prime Minister John Major.

He will also play West’s son, Senan West, as young Prince William (around 11), while Teddy Hawley and Will Powell will play his younger brother, Prince Harry, at different ages.

The 90s

Although the producers keep a secret as to which moments in the lives of British royalty they will focus on the new chapters, it is known that much of the plot will be centered around the 1990s, including the events before and possibly after Diana’s death. in 1997.

As revealed VarietyDiana’s boyfriend Dodi Al Fayedwho died alongside her in the car accident in Paris, she will be played by Khalid Abdalla, while her father, former owner of the famous Harrod’s store, Mohamed Al-Fayed, will be played by Salim Daw.

With the overwhelming success of the previous four seasons of The crownnow all expectations are placed on the fifth and sixth season, which is out. But for Kate Middleton’s screen debut we will have to wait until the sixth season.

These chapters will begin production before the end of the year and will focus on the late 1990s and early 2000s. Prince William was 15 in August 1997 when his mother died.

In 2008, William took a gap year before enrolling at the University of St Andrew in Scotland in 2001, and it was there that he met his then colleague, Kate, his future wife. They continued dating for ten years and eventually got married in 2011 and today they have three children: George, Charlotte and Louis.

The 1990s and early 2000s were a tumultuous time for the royal family. The royal’s popularity plummeted to an all-time low after Diana’s death in the park, shaken by numerous scandals.

Princes William and Harry became famous for frequenting nightclubs as teenagers. For his part, his uncle, Prince Andrew, was in the midst of his friendship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and allegedly abused his accuser Virginia Guiffre several times.

Prince Charlesmeanwhile, he was trying to recover his image while integrating his former lover, Camilla Parker Bowles, in public life. Conspiracy theories surrounding Diana’s death spread with all sorts of conjectures, some even claiming that Prince Philip was responsible.

There have also been numerous legal entanglements since Diana’s death, including a high-profile criminal trial involving her former butler, Paul Burrell, after he was arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of items belonging to the princess.

The cast changes

The series changes cast every two seasons to portray royalty over several decades. In the first two, Elizabeth II was played by Claire Foy and in the next two by Olivia Coleman.

Kampa, on the other hand, who will be William, has extensive experience in the theater, leading the cast of several shows, some musicals, in the prestigious circuit of the West End of London.

McVey, the other actor who plays William, graduated from Drama Center London last year and has appeared in major theaters, including The Old Vic and also Hammersmith Riverside Studios.

Bellamy, who will play Kate Middleton on the series, has less experience, although she has done amateur theater and films and now this high-profile series that is sure to mark her career. Kampa and Bellamy were selected after passing several auditions which they arrived summoned by a casting of the social networks.

As happened with Emma Corrin, who played a young Princess Diana in the fourth season, and Josh O’Connor, who played the role of Prince Charles in the third and fourth season, became famous for these roles, the new protagonists will surely go to the the same way, given the impact that the series has.

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