Then came The Crown . Claire Foy and Olivia Colman (and later Imelda Staunton) offered a generation-spanning look at a woman trapped by duty. The show’s brilliance lies in its refusal to sanitize Elizabeth’s aging. The stoicism of youth transforms into the brittle wisdom of age.
Moving past clichés to show the physical and emotional reality of growing older.
Three primary forces have dismantled the old structure.