Episode 7: Alma Mater

DEC 21, 202351 MIN
The Crown: The Official Podcast

Episode 7: Alma Mater

DEC 21, 202351 MIN

Description

As Prince William takes up his place at St Andrews University to study art history, after a gap year in Africa and South and Central America, he struggles to balance the traditional undergraduate rites of passage with the constraints of his position and constant presence of personal protection officers. His perseverance is tested when he develops a crush on one of the most desired students on campus: a woman by the name of Kate Middleton.

 

Edith Bowman speaks with co-writer Jonanthan Wilson and director May El-Toukhy about creating William’s university world and introducing Kate Middleton. Dialect coach William Conacher looks back at his work across six seasons of The Crown and Edith meets the actors behind Kate and William – Meg Belamy and Ed McVey.


The Crown: The Official Podcast is produced by Netflix and Sony Music Entertainment, in association with Left Bank Pictures. 

 

Host: Edith Bowman 

Guests: Jonathan Wilson, May El-Toukhy, William Conacher, Ed McVey, Meg Belamy.