Queen Elizabeth II Dead astatine 96: Relive Her Extraordinary Royal Life

The Crown is paying their respects its titular character. 

The Netflix drama's showrunner Peter Morgan said contiguous that the bid would intermission filming play six owed to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. 8. The show follows the ups and downs of her reign, opening with her ascent to the throne successful 1952. 

"The Crown is simply a emotion missive to her and I've thing to adhd for now, conscionable soundlessness and respect," he noted successful an email connection to Deadline. "I expect we volition halt filming retired of respect too."

Season six of the Emmy-winning bid was acceptable to statesman accumulation this fall and would absorption connected the play betwixt the precocious 1990s and aboriginal 2000s.

Producers of the bid person reportedly had their ain "Operation London Bridge"—a.k.a. the authoritative codename for the protocol that details what volition hap erstwhile the Queen dies—for immoderate time. 

"We person our ain mentation of Operation London Bridge," an insider adjacent to accumulation told The New York Post Sept. 8. "This is peculiarly pertinent for if we are filming. Filming volition unopen down instantly if we are successful production, for astatine slightest a week. There would besides beryllium tons of treatment astir erstwhile to restart."