The Crown
Tywysog Cymru
TV Flash files “Tywysog Cymru” as hour 26 of 60 in the TV Flash guide — The Crown (2016–2023) on Netflix, season 3, episode 6, aired 2019-11-17, 56 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E06: listed hour 26 of 60 in the The Crown guide, hour 6 of 10 in season 3. It aired 2019-11-17 (56 min). The listed hour before it is “Coup” (S03E05). Next is “Moondust” (S03E07).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Amid rising Welsh nationalism in the run-up to his investiture as Prince of Wales, Charles is sent to spend a semester there and learn the language.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Tywysog Cymru sit in the The Crown guide?
S03E06 is listed hour 26 of 60 — hour 6 of 10 in season 3, season 3 episode 6.
When did The Crown S03E06 air?
Tywysog Cymru aired 2019-11-17 and is listed at 56 minutes.
Do I need to start at season one, or can I jump to Diana?
Start at Wolferton Splash if you want the assignment to make sense. The Diana block is the loud look; Foy's seasons teach you the house rules the later actresses are wearing.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch it as a six-season fitting: three actresses wearing one job, Diana as a silhouette the cameras already thought they owned, and palace image-management as the actual plot. The jewels are punctuation. The posture is the sentence.
The first image is not a crown. It is a young woman in a coat that already knows more than the men in the room. Claire Foy's Elizabeth arrives like a held breath in wool: posture as policy, pearls as punctuation, a face that understands cameras because the cameras invented her job. Netflix did not drop a history lesson in November 2016. It dropped a fitting. Six seasons later the fabric changes, the actress changes, the century changes. The assignment does not.
Filed against
- Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II (seasons 1–2)
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- Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II (seasons 3–4)
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- Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II (seasons 5–6)
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- Matt Smith as Prince Philip (seasons 1–2)
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- Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip (seasons 3–4)
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- Josh O'Connor as Prince Charles (seasons 3–4)
Josh O’Connor’s Prince Charles — The Crown seasons 3 and 4 — is Peter Morgan’s middle heir in the Diana years the carpet still treats as a live wire. Netflix royal serial as wardrobe argument; two-season reincarnations. On TV Flash he is…