The Crown's Olivia Williams reveals the production team used the same orchestra King Charles and Queen Camilla hired for their real wedding for the series.
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Olivia Williams, 55, has revealed why she thinks the Royal Family don't 'totally disapprove' of The Crown.
The actress has played Queen Camilla in series five and six of The Crown, depicting the time after Princess Diana and King Charles' split and the introduction of Camilla into the Royal Family.
Speaking to Heart, Olivia revealed how she feels about the hit Netflix drama coming to an end, how they filmed Camilla and Charles' wedding and why she thinks the Royals aren't completely against the series as a whole.
You can read our full interview with Olivia Williams here.
What should we expect for the finale of The Crown and how does it come to an close?
The most important thing for me is I get to get married - which isn't a spoiler because I [Camilla] did!
The wedding is beautifully done, it's a slightly farcical situation where they had to get married in a registry office in Windsor and we shot it in Rochester in Kent at the beautiful old Guildhall. And then they had a blessing in St George's Chapel in Windsor, which we reconstructed in York Minster so I got to marry Dominic West in York Minister with a orchestra playing Handel's Water Music and a choir and 400 people bowing to me - so it was fabulous!
The series comes to a close very much with the focus going back very brilliantly on to Elizabeth at the end. Draws the series to a close on thoughts about the crown and what happens to the monarchy and where it is going to go next.
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Do you get nervous knowing that members of the Royal Family could be watching the series?
I do feel very conscious of it, but I also feel that the work we did and the work we did was very respectful and not intended to cause harm and not intended to offend.
We had a tiny inclining that maybe we weren't entirely disapproved of because the orchestra who performed for us was the same orchestra that played for Charles and Camilla at their real wedding. So I think they probably wouldn't have been given permission to do that if there was a large amount of royal disapproval for what we were doing. I like to think, to but I don't know, that's conjecture.
