Netflix's historical drama The Crown is one of its buzziest, most awards-nabbing hits, but there's at least one person who hasn't sat down to binge it yet: Prince William.
Olivia Colman — who plays Queen Elizabeth in Season 3 of The Crown — bumped into the real Queen Elizabeth's grandson, Prince William, at a dinner, she said on The Graham Norton Show on Friday. But as she put it, "It didn't go very well."
"I was so excited and asked, 'Have you watched it?'" Colman says. "His answer was a firm, 'No.'" And as cold as that might sound, to be fair: How excited would you be if Netflix was making a show about your grandma? Read more at ET Online.
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