Netflix Original TV Shows Based on True Stories
Learn More About the Incredible True Stories Behind These 12 Netflix Original Shows
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Beginning just before Queen Elizabeth II took the throne, The Crown is based on the real — and complicated — lives of the British royal family and the people around them. Spanning decades (complete with cast resets), the show is not a beat-by-beat depiction of history, but combines what we know from history with some imagination about what goes on behind the most famous front doors in the world.