Who plays Camilla Parker Bowles in The Crown?
THE Crown is about to make an explosive return to Netflix for season five of the period drama.
Camilla Parker Bowles featured heavily in seasons three and four, with the fifth series set to be no different.
Who plays Camilla Parker Bowles in The Crown?
The Crown season five sees a new cast taking over the royal residence.
Actress Olivia Williams plays the role of Camilla for the last two seasons of the Netflix series.
According to reports, Williams actually met Camilla at the Man Booker Prize in 2017, and they had a brief chat.
The British actress has had a successful career spanning theatre, film and television, with roles in the 1996 TV film adaptation of Emma, as well as The Sixth Sense, An Education and The Ghost Writer.
She married actor and playwright Rhashan Stone in 2003 and they share two daughters together.
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Who else has played Camilla Parker Bowles in The Crown?
The character of Camilla is introduced in season three of The Crown.
Actress Emerald Fennell played the much-maligned figure for seasons three and four.
When she bagged the role, Fennell said that she was absolutely over the moon, and completely terrified, to be joining so many hugely talented people on The Crown.
She said: "I absolutely love Camilla, and am very grateful that my teenage years have well prepared me for playing a chain-smoking serial snogger with a pudding-bowl haircut.”
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What are the main storylines about Camilla Parker Bowles' in The Crown?
Charles and Camilla's early romance
Season three explores the early days of Charles' relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles.
The love triangle between Charles, Camilla and her eventual first husband Andrew Parker Bowles is made clear.
But Charles is unable to commit to Camilla, and he tells her as much.
He tells his future wife that his life is “not so much an existence as a predicament”
Talking about the Queen, he tells Camilla: “Until she dies I cannot be fully alive.”
Princess Anne also has an affair with Andrew Parker-Bowles in the meantime.
Camilla's lunch meeting with Diana
Diana Spencer is about to about to marry Charles but is lonely and isolated after moving into the palace.
Charles, who is frequently absent on trips abroad, tells Diana she should reach out to Camilla Parker-Bowles, the ex-girlfriend he's still in love with.
Camilla takes Diana out for lunch, and under the pretence of friendship, undermines her by stressing how well she knows Charles.
Diana finds designs for a “Fred and Gladys” bracelet, Charles and Camilla's nicknames for one another, ahead of her royal wedding.
Camilla tells Charles to 'be realistic'
Charles visits Camilla to ask about her marriage to Andrew.
Although Camilla admits that she feels more strongly towards Charles, but tells him they need to remain "realistic".
She says: “What we both want and what we can actually do are not the same thing,
“It’s important we remain realistic.”
Charles and Camilla’s affair
Season five will be showing an "all-out war" between Charles and Diana.
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In 1992, Charles and Diana separated, which was followed by Diana's sensational portrayal in Andrew Morton's biography Diana: Her True Story In Her Own Words.
Camilla becomes known as the famous "third person" in their marriage.