On The Crown, when Beaton turns up to shoot a portrait, he does so while unspooling lines from Wordsworth, Tennyson or Shakespeare to set his subjects in a properly glorious frame of mind. Beaton’s official portraits made her an icon throughout the Commonwealth. In the final scene from Season One, the Queen posed for official coronation portraits shot by Cecil Beaton (1904 – 1980) who manages to transform her majesty from a handsome, if uninteresting woman, into the glorious and resolute Queen Elizabeth II. Equal part historical saga and soap opera, it indulges our seemingly endless curiosity about the British Royal Family. Peter Morgan‘s scintillating series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II is a lavish, luxuriant, taffeta-wrapped, jewel-dripping drama that looks as if every penny of its $13-million per episode budget is money well spent. There are so many wonderful things to appreciate about the Netflix‘s The Crown. “ The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.”
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