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- Sex & Nudity (13)
- Violence & Gore (3)
- Profanity (7)
- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (4)
- Frightening & Intense Scenes (4)
- Spoilers (2)
Certification
Sex & Nudity
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- Only really 1 sex scene throughout all 40 episodes. A Room is dark, but female breasts and male buttocks seen. After they get up, explicit male genital nudity is seen.
- Almost every episodes contains no sexual content other than buttocks. The occasional breast is seen but not sexually and always brief..
- Out of the 4 seasons, there are only a few episodes that have moderate sex/nudity. Most of the episodes have none-mild
- Infrequent explicit male full frontal nudity. Brief female topless nudity.
- S2, A man is completely nude, as he is walking to shower in a men's room. Only his butt can be seen for about 5 seconds.
- S2, A man and woman view a photograph of a nude and topless woman surrounded by men, her breasts are visible.
- A later episode in season 2 contains a sex scene with explicit male nudity. Other than this sex scene, no other episodes in the entire show are sexually explicit.
- Other than the one scene in the later episode, not much sex or nudity.
- Some episodes feature strong innuendo, implied intercourse. One episode in season two features a lengthy sex scene (without explicit nudity). Another episode features someone sexually dancing and posing for a camera. Occasional nudity includes bare breasts, buttocks. Storylines explore Princess Margaret's various romantic interests, and the extramarital affairs of other royals. Childbirth scenes with nothing private or bloody visible.
- S5 contains themes of infidelity/affairs throughout, but the most sensitive scenes are limited to lewd sexual conversations. Other than that there's kissing and implied sex between a couple, plus exotic dancers on a wedding, and a woman's back when she bathes (no nudity)
- A man sleeps in the nude, and his bare buttocks are seen for an extended period.
- When an audience gathers in Kenya, bare-breasted women are shown.
- A group of people witness horses mating.
Violence & Gore
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- Infrequent acts of violence include some scenes of war experience that involve shooting (S2; no graphic detail) an avalanche that kills several people offscreen, an explosion on a boat, and other implied deaths. Strong arguments also occur frequently, as well as implications of violence.
- S5 contains a disturbing violent scene which depicts the execution of the Romanov family. Several people are excecuted (shot, beaten and/or stabbed to death) in a war context (including several civilians and children) Dead bodies are shown in a pile.
- An ill man coughs up blood. Blood splatters are shown in a toilet bowl and on his handkerchiefs. There is a closeup shot of an operation being performed inside of a man, one of his lungs is shown being removed.
Profanity
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- Season 2: multiple F-words (at least 5) are used particularly by the characters Tony Armstrong-Jones and Princess Margaret.
- Season 4: very few mild cuss words scattered throughout the episodes, with a few notable exceptions. Michael Fagan (and characters he associates with) frequently use the f-word. A variant of the c-word is used.
- Season 4: practically none, with the exception of episode 5, which is a constant stream of "fucks" from start to finish.
- Audible words include "Christ's sakes," "bloody hell" and other British slang, "f--k," "s--t," and "c--t."
- S5 contains an f-word and other profanities in foreign language; besides that there's a use of sh*t, plus h*ll, bloody, a**, and God as an exclamation.
- "Christ" is said many times, as is "Jesus." Infrequent crass words are also scattered throughout, for example: "bugger," and "bastards."
- A couple of bawdy limericks are recited one contains the word "c---."
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Characters frequently smoke cigars and cigarettes (one character notably suffers from lung cancer); social drinking. One character engages in obvious drunken behavior.
- A man snorts cocaine in the last ep of season 5.
- Occasional drinking and smoking throughout series.
- A man is injected with strong pain-relieving drugs and passes out.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The depiction of the execution of the Romanov family in season 5 is very intense, as it shows innocent women and children murdered.
- If the crown was made into a film it would be PG-13 for strong thematic material throughout including some violent content and bloody images, language, some drug use and sensuality.
- A grieving relative sees a dead body with tubes attached to it as part of the embalming processes.
- A pedestrian is struck down by a bus.
Spoilers
Sex & Nudity
- Season 3: love affairs among younger characters, sex scene between Charles and Camilla, and it is implied that Camilla and Andrew are sleeping together
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
- Margaret and her husband are seen very drunk in one series and having a blazing row. Various items in the room end up being smashed as a result.
