The casting switches continue as The Crown moves forward in time for the third series. Ben Daniels will join the cast to play the new version of Antony Armstrong-Jones.
Daniels inherits the role from Matthew Goode and will appear alongside Helena Bonham Carter's Princess Margaret to play her photographer and royal husband, who was also known as Lord Snowden.
With the cameras ready to roll next month so the show can return in 2019, the latest season will kick off in 1963 and follows the changing fortunes of the world and another evolution of culture. The Armstrong-Jones/Windsor marriage was a passionate but turbulent one, which produced two children but eventually began to collapse thanks to the couple's hard-partying ways.
"After being glued to the first two seasons of The Crown I am beyond thrilled to be joining the cast of this incredible piece of television," Daniels says in a statement. "Snowdon was such a dynamic and complex man, I’m really looking forward to playing him." He joins the likes of Olivia Colman as the Queen and Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip. Seen in the TV version of The Exorcist, he has sci-fi thriller Captive State due on screens next year.
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