Vote for your Favorite Characters from The Crown this December!

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S3: 1 & 2: “Olding” & “Margaretology” 3: “Aberfan” 4: “Bubbikins, 5: “Coup” 6: “Tywysog Cymru” 7: “Moondust" 8: “Dangling Man” 9: “Imbroglio” 10: “Cri de Coeur”
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In addition to my blog posts, I've decided to continue The Crown love over on my Facebook page with a voting bracket to determine my friends and fans' favorite characters! This form of bracket is limited to 32 characters, so alas, I cannot include every character that's ever appeared on the show. Here's my tentative list so far. I'll have to figure out seeding, but I think it's likely that I'll put characters that were cast anew for S3-4 against each other in the first round. I do have a few characters on here combining the two actors into one, as the characters are important, but the actors' characterizations weren't different enough to really justify them having separate slots.

Here's my tentative list of bracket characters so far.

1. S1-S2 Queen Elizabeth II (Claire Foy)
2. S3-S4 Queen Elizabeth II (Olivia Colman)
3. S1-S2 Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (Matt Smith)
4. S3-S4 Prince Philip (Tobias Menzies)
5. S1-S2 Princess Margaret (Vanessa Kirby)
6. S3-S4 Princess Margaret (Helena Bonham Carter)
7. S1-S2 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (Victoria Hamilton)
8. S3-S4 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (Marion Bailey)
9. Group Captain Peter Townsend (Ben Miles)
10. S1-S2 Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma “Dickie” (Greg Wise)
11. S3-S4 Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma “Dickie” (Charles Dance)
12. Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (Alex Jennings/Derek Jacobi)
13. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (Lia Williams/Geraldine Chaplin)
14. Winston Churchill (John Lithgow)
15. Anthony Eden (Jeremy Northam)
16. Harold Macmillan (Anton Lesser)
17. Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon (Matthew Goode/Ben Daniels)
18. Harold Wilson (Jason Watkins)
19. Princess Anne (Erin Doherty)
20. Charles, Prince of Wales (Josh O’Connor)
21. Diana, Princess of Wales (Emma Corrin)
22. Camilla Shand, later Parker-Bowles (Emerald Fennell)
23. Margaret Thatcher (Gillian Anderson)

I’m also hosting a poll to determine the wild-card contenders for the last 8 slots! You can go vote for your favorite 3 characters from that list until 7:30 PM EST Monday over here.

The voting options are:

  • Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth II’s grandmother (Eileen Atkins) 

  • King George VI, Queen Elizabeth II’s father (Jared Harris)

  • Edward Heath, prime minister from 1970-1974 (Michael Maloney)

  • Tommy Lascelles, private secretary to both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II (Pip Torrens)

  • Michael Adeane, private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (Will Keen/David Rintoul)

  • Martin Charteris, private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (Harry Hadden-Paton/Charles Edwards)

  • Graham Sutherland (Stephen Dillane) a noted artist who paints a portrait of the ageing Churchill Lord Altrincham (John Heffernan) a writer who penned a scathing criticism of the Queen

  • Patricia Campbell (Gemma Whelan) a secretary who works with Lord Altrincham and types up his editorial

  • Billy Graham (Paul Sparks) a prominent American preacher whom Elizabeth consults

  • John F. Kennedy (Michael C. Hall), the 35th President of the United States who visits the Queen

  • Jacqueline Kennedy (Jodi Balfour), the First Lady of the United States 

  • Dr Kurt Hahn (Burghart Klaußner) the founder of Gordonstoun, where Philip and Charles went to school

  • school-aged Prince Philip (Finn Elliot)

  • school-aged Prince Charles (Julian Baring)

  • Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (Clancy Brown)

  • Edward Millward, Prince Charles's Welsh language tutor (Mark Lewis Jones)

  • Princess Alice, Philip’s mother (Jane Lapotaire)

  • Robin Woods, Dean of Windsor from 1962 to 1970 (Tim McMullan)

  • Roddy Llewellyn, Princess Margaret's boyfriend (Harry Treadaway)

  • Denis Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher’s husband (Stephen Boxer)

  • Michael Fagan, a man who enters the Queen's bedroom in 1982 (Tom Brooke)

  • Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (Richard Roxburgh)

  • Derek 'Dazzle' Jennings, a civil servant and friend of Princess Margaret (Tom Burke)

  • Michael Shea, the Queen's Press Secretary from 1978 to 1987 (Nicholas Farrell)

  • Prince Edward (Angus Imrie)

  • Prince Andrew (Tom Byrne)