The three sauciest storylines that are going to play out in the new season of The Crown.

Season three of The Crown will be bestowed upon us this weekend and thanks to a few early cast interviews, we know it’s going to feature quite a few scandalous royal storylines, ripped straight from the history books.

A whole new cast of actors will be stepping into the character’s shoes on The Crown next season with Olivia Colman starring as Queen Elizabeth II, Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip, Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret and Josh O’Connor as Prince Charles.

Here are the three sauciest storylines we know will appear in The Crown season three.

Watch Olivia Colman in the season three trailer of The Crown. Post continues after video. 

Princess Margaret begins quite the racy affair with Roddy Llewellyn.

Season three of The Crown is set to be just as interesting and drama-filled for our favourite princess as it was for her the first two times around.

In season three Princess Margaret (previously played by Vanessa Kirby) is known as the Countess of Snowdon, following her marriage to Anthony Armstrong-Jones (now played by Ben Daniels).  While the marriage started out as a happy and passionate one, in season three the relationship will begin to fracture and ultimately implode.

In the midst of these events, Princess Margaret will begin quite the scandalous affair with gardener Roddy Llewellyn (Harry Treadway). In fact, actress Helena Bonham Carter has already been photographed on the set of the series embracing Harry Treadway.

Listen to The Crown actress Vanessa Kirby tell Mamamia Entertainment Editor Laura Brodnik all the behind-the-scenes secrets from the show. 

Prince Charles meets his future wife, Camilla Parker Bowles.

Thanks to a bit of casting information from the set of The Crown season three, we know that Call the Midwife star Esther Fennell will join the series as Camilla Shand, who would later become Camilla Parker Bowles, Prince Charles’ second wife and the now appointed Duchess of Cornwall.

This is the season of The Crown we’ll see Charles meet the woman who would go on to become the love of his life, and Lady Diana Spencer who would go on to be his first wife. Thus setting up one of the most famous love triangles in history.

The many scandalous escapades of Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon.

While Princess Margaret will have an intense storyline in the third season of the hit Netflix show, her husband, the Earl of Snowdon, will also be taking on a starring role.

The Crown’s historian Robert Lacey told Town & Country “In season three, without giving anything away – it’s on the record, it’s history – we’ll see the breakup of this extraordinary marriage between Margaret and Snowdon… you see how it starts, and what a strange character, a brilliant character Snowdon was.”

Now, that sounds like a storyline we need to see played out on screen.

Season three of The Crown will premiere on Netflix on November 17, 2019. Seasons one and two are available to watch on the streaming service now.

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• We finally know what roles Prince Charles, Princess Diana and Camilla will play in The Crown.
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