Find out how The Crown season five almost launched a murder investigation during filming for the Netflix drama…
November 08, 2022 - 09:55 GMT Nicky Morris The Crown's production designer Alison Harvey has revealed that a murder investigation was almost launched during filming for season five. In February this year, it was reported that thieves had stolen £150,000 worth of antique props contained in three vans on set.
"I think the most amusing bit was the police were treating it as a murder enquiry because one of the dummies, the prosthetics, was floating face down in the river next to where the theft had been, so they immediately thought 'We’ve got a murder,' but actually it was just a rubber body," she said."That took a bit of time to work out."
Production designer Martin Childs added that finding the antiques"was not their priority because they [thought they] had a murder to investigate".MORE: Sarah Ferguson forced to deny collaboration with The Crown producers Alison also explained that the dummy corpse, which was worth £13,000, looked exactly like a real dead body."It was absolutely identical to a naked [dead] person," she said."It was probably quite alarming for the police actually when they fished it out."Most of the props stolen from set related to episode six of the upcoming season, which looks at the relations between the British royals and Soviet Russia.
Alison said it was"a shame" because"it was some of the loveliest antiques that we could actually get our hands on because we were trying to recreate the Russian Imperial family and the wealth of ancient Russia".Like this story? Sign up to our What to Watch newsletter to get other stories like this delivered straight to your inbox.
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