‘The Crown’: What is Queen Victoria syndrome in the Netflix series?

With only a few days in the Netflix catalog, the fifth season of “The Crown” has become a success for this platform, because they already occupy the first places within the audience peaks of this service, seen by millions of fans of this story, who during the first chapters of this new installment have heard a term on which many have raised doubts: “Queen Victoria Syndrome”.

It is important to remember that even the title of the first episode of the fifth season of ‘The crown’ on Netflix it’s called “Queen Victoria Syndrome”, a term that has been used in the UK to describe when people begin to perceive that the Queen, or King, has been on the throne of England for a long time, which happened in the early 1990s 90 with Queen Elizabeth II.

It should not be forgotten that the Queen Victoria, great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth IIlasted 66 years on the British throne, and in the early 1990s the mother of the current King Charles III began projecting one of the longest reigns in the history of the United Kingdom, so the aforementioned syndrome was a term that was used in the aforementioned years in a Sunday Times publication that covered Elizabeth II.

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As we know, Queen Elizabeth II eventually became the longest serving monarch in the United Kingdom, surpassing her great-grandmother Queen Victoria to rule England for 70 years, witnessing some of the most important events in the world, as well as major controversies in the royal family, and some of the most scandalous occurred in the 90s, the decade that faces precisely the fifth season of ‘The crown’.

The Crown and the 90s

The exact reason season 5 of ‘The Crown’ became, even before its premiere, the most controversial of this Netflix seriesit’s because it deals with the events of the 1990s in the history of the royal family, the decade that is remembered as the most turbulent in Elizabeth II’s long reign.

It was in the 1990s when the Queen’s children separated, the most scandalous of which was the divorce of the Prince of Wales and Princess Diana, likewise, this decade was when Lady Di gave her famous BBC interview, in which he underlined the reality that he lived within the British royalty, and it cannot be forgotten that in 1997 the tragic accident of Diana Spencer took place.

What is certain is that “The Crown” and its season 5 are one of the most interesting premieres of Netflix in 2022, a production that has returned to this platform with 10 new episodes and, above all, it is not the definitive end of this series , as this title has a sixth confirmed installment.