To many viewers' disappointment, Claire Foy has said her goodbyes to The Crown this year. Show-runner Peter Morgan is famously recasting the series after season two, and Broadchurch actress Olivia Colman is already confirmed to step into Foy's shoes.

"I feel that when we reach 1963-64 we've gone as far as we can go with Claire Foy without having to do silly things in terms of makeup to make her look older," Morgan said. "She can't help the fact she's as young as she is."



But here's why I think we'll see Foy play Queen Elizabeth II on the show once again: Peter Morgan's dramatization of the second Elizabethan age has never been strictly chronological. He makes liberal use of flashbacks to provide historical context for the plot.

In season one, for example, we see young Elizabeth and young Margaret speak with their father during the abdication crisis of 1936, a conversation which clarifies both the sisters' relationship and that of the King and his brother.

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And season two brought the surprising return of Jared Harris as King George VI and John Lithgow as Winston Churchill in an episode about the Duke of Windsor's relationship with Nazi Germany.

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These scenes are short, a few minutes at best, but they give me hope that Foy isn't completely finished with her queenly duties just yet.

Caroline Hallemann Senior Digital News Editor As the senior digital news editor for Town & Country, Caroline Hallemann covers everything from the British royal family to the latest episodes of Outlander, Killing Eve, and The Crown.

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