--- description: Netflix has released the first trailer for The Crown, its mammoth series about the British royal family under the reign of Queen Elizabeth title: See the Trailer for Netflix's Series About Queen Elizabeth image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch the First Trailer for Netflix's Series About Queen Elizabeth by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 7, 2016 2:52 AM CUT by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 7, 2016 2:52 AM CUT Netflix has released the first trailer for _The Crown,_ its mammoth series about the British royal family under the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. The series — on which Netflix [spent](http://time.com/4004437/netflix-queen-elizabeth/ "undefined") an unprecedented $156 million — will comprise six 10-episode seasons, each spanning a decade of Elizabeth’s rule. The first, teased in the four-minute trailer released on Wednesday, will treat the tumultuous politics of the years following the end World War II. Claire Foy, who was Anne Boleyn in the BBC miniseries _Wolf Hall,_ will play the young queen; John Lithgow will play Prime Minister Winston Churchill. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4170607/queen-elizabeth-netflix-the-crown-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4170607/queen-elizabeth-netflix-the-crown-trailer/"},"headline":"Watch the First Trailer for Netflix's Series About Queen Elizabeth","datePublished":"2016-01-07T02:52:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:50:59.895Z","description":"The Crown, which will span six decades, is Netflix's most expensive series yet","url":"https://time.com/4170607/queen-elizabeth-netflix-the-crown-trailer/","keywords":["Television","Netflix","United Kingdom","Winston Churchill","queen elizabeth","british royal family"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4170607/queen-elizabeth-netflix-the-crown-trailer/","name":"Watch the First Trailer for Netflix's Series About Queen Elizabeth"}}]}] ```