The Crown in Vogue: Vogue's 'special royal salute' to Queen Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor

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This is a beautiful book, with wonderful photos and illustrations that go back to the earliest days of Vogue (1890s) up through the present (well, to the time of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's engagement).

Of course, season four of The Crown will also see the introduction of Diana, Princess of Wales – played by relative newcomer Emma Corrin, who outlined her preparation for the life-changing role in British Vogue’s October 2020 issue.

Recent photos from the set show Debicki as Diana, wading in the sea in a green swimsuit and white shorts, waving from a yacht wearing a power-shouldered floral dress and walking through the Spanish countryside in a khaki-colored two-piece.

On 29 October, Netflix dropped another trailer, this one offering a tantalising glimpse of Gillian Anderson’s portrayal of Margaret Thatcher – and of the Iron Lady’s first audience with Her Majesty the Queen. As Queen Mary greets her newly acceded granddaughter, curtseying deeply to her for the first time, the audible creak of ageing knees makes you wince.

Vogue, like the royal family, has been through many evolutions of its own, and to view Her Majesty's life through the record of our pages is truly a document of history. More recently, in her British Vogue December 2022 cover interview, she spoke about the pressure she initially felt when taking on the part. In fact, before Eileen Atkins – who here plays Queen Mary – went to a reception at Buckingham Palace, she had a “take-it-or-leave-it approach to the monarchy”, she confesses. The clip appears to show Diana getting ready for her controversial Panorama interview with the now-disgraced Martin Bashir in 1995, which is believed to take up a full episode in the series. Ed McVey, a Drama Centre London graduate who most recently served as an understudy in Camp Siegfried at the Old Vic.