After endless teases, The Crown has unveiled a proper first look at season three, including all the main cast in action.

Alongside Olivia Colman's Queen Elizabeth, we also get to see and hear Prince Philip (Tobias Menzies), Princess Margaret (Helena Bonham Carter) and Prince Charles (Josh O'Connor) for the first time.

Also shown are W1A's Jason Watkins as former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Game of Thrones' Charles Dance as Lord Louis Mountbatten and Call the Midwife's Emerald Fennell as Camilla Parker-Bowles.

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Much of the trailer focuses on the changing times as well as tensions within the Royal Family.

"This country was great when I came to the throne," Colman's Queen declares. "All that's happened on my watch is the place has fallen apart."

While the third season is almost upon us, filming on season four is well under way, and we recently got first glimpses of Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher and Emma Corrin as Princess Diana.

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As the new cast takes over for the third outing, Colman recently revealed how predecessor Claire Foy inspired her own take on the Queen.

"When Claire Foy handed over the mantle she was incredibly encouraging," she said. "She did the most exquisite job... For the first couple of weeks I copied everything she did and I tried to imagine how she'd do it, because I was such a fan."

The Crown returns on Sunday, November 17 on Netflix.


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