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127 free The Crown trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
50 free The Crown trivia questions with answers. Think you're a true fan of The Crown? Put your knowledge of the Netflix hit series to the test with our engaging trivia quiz. From dramatic palace intrigue to pivotal historical moments, this quiz covers everything you need to know about the royals. See how well you really know the show!
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Q 01The Crown's exiled Duke of Windsor gave up the throne in 1936 to marry which American divorcée?
Wallis Simpson
Wallis Simpson was the woman Edward VIII chose over the crown in December 1936; his abdication put his younger brother on the throne and made ten-year-old Elizabeth the heir.
Q 02Elstree Studios, where much of The Crown was shot, is in which English town?
Borehamwood
Borehamwood, not the neighbouring village of Elstree, is where Elstree Studios stands; The Crown built its palace private quarters and its Downing Street exterior there.
Q 03After a magazine attack on her speeches in season two of The Crown, the Queen agrees to televise which annual broadcast?
The Christmas message
The Christmas message first went out on television in 1957, months after a magazine article mocked the Queen's speaking style as 'a pain in the neck'.
Q 04Anton Lesser plays which prime minister in season two of The Crown?
Harold Macmillan
Harold Macmillan, played by Anton Lesser, resigned in October 1963 on grounds of ill health, yet lived until 1986, long enough to enter the Lords as Earl of Stockton.
Q 05Which actor portrayed Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 'The Crown'?
John Lithgow
John Lithgow, an American, plays Churchill in his second spell in power, from 1951 to 1955, fending off colleagues who want the ailing premier to retire; the performance won a 2017 Emmy.
Q 06Who played Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in the first two seasons of 'The Crown'?
Matt Smith
Matt Smith's Philip pushes for his children to bear the name Mountbatten and loses; the real duke complained that he was the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his children.
Q 07Which actress played Princess Margaret in seasons three and four of The Crown?
Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter plays Margaret as her marriage to Lord Snowdon falls apart; 1976 photographs of the princess with Roddy Llewellyn, 17 years her junior, brought the split into the open.
Q 08Which royal biographer served as The Crown's historical consultant?
Robert Lacey
Robert Lacey defended the show's inventions by distinguishing historical truth from 'the larger truth about the past'.
Q 09Who was the first actor to play Prince Charles as an adult in The Crown, across seasons 3 and 4?
Josh O'Connor
Josh O'Connor had to be persuaded to audition, and was won over by a scene in which Charles likens himself to a man waiting to be drafted so that his life can begin; the role won him an Emmy.
Q 10Which actress won an Emmy as Queen Elizabeth II in the first two seasons of The Crown?
Claire Foy
Claire Foy won the 2018 lead-actress Emmy; that year producers admitted she had been paid less than her on-screen husband and promised that in future nobody would out-earn the Queen.
Q 11In The Crown's first episode, Philip gives up his title as a prince of which two countries to marry Elizabeth?
Greece and Denmark
Greece and Denmark both counted Philip a prince until 1947, when he dropped the titles, became a British subject and took the surname Mountbatten, his mother's family name.
Q 12Which cathedral stood in for Westminster Abbey in The Crown's coronation scenes?
Ely Cathedral
Ely Cathedral stood in for Westminster Abbey at the 1953 coronation, the first British coronation service shown on television; the show has Philip, put in charge of the planning, insist on the cameras.
Q 13Who plays King George VI in the first season of The Crown?
Jared Harris
Q 21Which actress took over the role of Queen Elizabeth II for seasons three and four of The Crown?
Olivia Colman
Olivia Colman won an Emmy for the role and returned in the 2023 finale, appearing to her older self as an apparition while the Queen weighs whether to abdicate.
Q 22Who portrayed Prince Philip in seasons three and four of The Crown?
Tobias Menzies
Tobias Menzies landed the part in March 2018 after another actor in talks for it dropped out; he went on to win an Emmy for it.
Q 23Which international crisis brings down the prime minister in season two of The Crown?
The Suez Crisis
Jared Harris plays George VI, who took the throne in 1936 only because his elder brother abdicated; in the opening episode a lung operation leaves him quietly preparing Philip to support the next sovereign.
Q 14In season five of The Crown, the ageing Queen asks the prime minister to fund repairs to which royal possession?
The yacht Britannia
The yacht Britannia, launched in 1953, is season five's emblem of the ageing Queen: her request for a publicly funded refit opens the season, and the yacht is retired without a replacement in 1997.
Q 15Which actress plays Diana, Princess of Wales, in seasons five and six of The Crown?
Elizabeth Debicki
Elizabeth Debicki's Diana, newly divorced, asks Tony Blair for an official role, an idea the Queen rejects; the performance won Debicki a Golden Globe.
Q 16Which English city doubled as New York City in The Crown?
Manchester
Manchester's Northern Quarter became 1980s New York for Diana's solo trip in the season-four finale; one square, redressed between scenes, played both Manhattan's 23rd Street and the Bronx.
Q 17In season five of The Crown, Diana secretly helps which journalist write a tell-all biography of her?
Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton never interviewed Diana face to face: a mutual friend carried his questions to her and brought back her answers, and her part in the book was admitted only after her death.
Q 18In season one of The Crown, what makes Elizabeth Queen while she is on a Commonwealth tour?
Her father's death
Her father's death on 6 February 1952 found Elizabeth in Kenya, where she had just spent the night in a treetop game lodge; it was Philip who broke the news to her.
Q 19Which actress plays Princess Margaret in the first two seasons of The Crown?
Vanessa Kirby
Vanessa Kirby plays Margaret through her romance with the divorced Peter Townsend, which ends in 1955 with a public statement that she has decided not to marry him.
Q 20In season one, Stephen Dillane plays which artist whose portrait upsets the ageing Churchill?
Graham Sutherland
Graham Sutherland's portrait, Parliament's gift for Churchill's 80th birthday, so offended its sitter that it was secretly burned; Stephen Dillane plays the painter in 'Assassins'.
The Suez Crisis of 1956 saw Britain, France and Israel invade Egypt after it nationalised the canal, only for American censure to force a retreat; the prime minister resigned in January 1957.
Q 24Which actress portrayed Camilla Parker Bowles in seasons three and four of The Crown?
Emerald Fennell
Emerald Fennell plays Camilla Shand, who marries Andrew Parker Bowles in 1973 while Charles is overseas with the Navy; the show has Mountbatten and the Queen Mother engineer the separation.
Q 25Which actress took on the role of Queen Elizabeth II for the final seasons, five and six, of The Crown?
Imelda Staunton
Imelda Staunton was filming the final season when Elizabeth II died in September 2022; production was suspended the next day as a mark of respect, and again on the day of the funeral.
Q 26Who was cast as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, for seasons five and six of The Crown?
Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce's Philip teaches a grieving family friend carriage driving, the sport the real duke took up in 1971 after giving up polo and whose early rule book he helped to draft.
Q 27Which actress plays Margaret Thatcher in season four of The Crown?
Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the role; her finale scene, begging the Queen to dissolve Parliament to save her job, was dismissed by Thatcher's biographer as nonsense.
Q 28Which actor played Lord Mountbatten in seasons three and four of The Crown?
Charles Dance
Charles Dance's Mountbatten is approached in 'Coup' by press baron Cecil King, who wants him to head a government replacing the elected one; the real King floated the idea at a 1968 meeting.
Q 29Who portrayed Prime Minister John Major in season five of The Crown?
Jonny Lee Miller
Jonny Lee Miller's John Major is pulled into the royal marriage: the real Major announced Charles and Diana's separation to the Commons in 1992, and the show has the Queen use him as go-between in their divorce.
Q 30Which actor played Prime Minister Tony Blair in seasons five and six of The Crown?
Bertie Carvel
Bertie Carvel's Blair, riding high in the polls, urges a purge of the royal household's antique offices; the Queen interviews the holders one by one and decides to keep them.