The Crown: Season Four drops on Netflix this Sunday

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"The sheer audaciousness of the script continues to thrill: how could anyone know what the Queen and Princess Anne talked about, seated on a picnic blanket in the middle of nowhere?" - Suzy Feay, Financial Times (5/5)

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"Together, Thatcher and Diana give The Crown an energy and a sense of direction it lacked in the third season, and a feeling of verve the show has arguably never approached before." - Kathryn VanArendonk, New York Magazine/Vulture

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"Much of series three felt like a warm up act, a prelude to bigger, better drama. With the arrival of some new blood in the form of Gillian Anderson's Thatcher and Emma Corrin's Princess Diana, round four provides just that." - Katie Rosseinsky, London Evening Standard (4/5)

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"I remember in detail almost every event here that I found it so entertaining. Yes, there is a shaky start and the odd historical inaccuracy, but it is in my view Morgan's best series yet and, overall, five-star television." - Carol Midgley, Times (UK) (5/5)

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"The stillness at the centre of this storm is Colman. She is quietly riveting as the plot wends its way to a predictable conclusion." - Ed Power, Independent (UK) (4/5)

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"The Crown has successfully sold itself as one of TV's most serious dramas. The fourth season, in all its shameless glory, may be its most successful yet even as it puts that prestigious perception to bed." - Caroline Framke, Variety

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"What makes Corrin a good Diana is that she too possesses an inherent charm and appeal. She remains sympathetic throughout, even in scenes with O'Connor when the two are shouting at one another as their marriage collapses." - Kelly Lawler, USA Today (3.5/4)

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"All of this is familiar. Very painfully, infuriatingly familiar. But as "The Crown" in this season shows, with a steel spine and ice in its veins, the Monarchy was built to withstand whatever onslaught comes its way." - Ann Donahue, indieWire (A)

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"O'Connor is uncannily skilled at portraying the prince's chimeric moods - the arrogance and entitlement, the hangdog malaise, the insecurity and yearning." - Kristen Baldwin, Entertainment Weekly (A-)

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