Robert Sterne spoke exclusively with RadioTimes.com about casting the young Royals for The Crown season 6 part 2. <\/p>
As we approach the final episodes of The Crown<\/a>, which are set to release on Netflix<\/a> on 14th December, the show\u2019s casting director Robert Sterne, who has worked on the series since its beginning, spoke exclusively with RadioTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Looking ahead to season 6 part 2, Sterne spoke about casting the show\u2019s university-age Prince William, as played by Ed McVey<\/a>, explaining why the young star was right for the role.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cWell, I suppose it\u2019s quite a complicated character. The character was coming out of that kind of tragedy, but looking forward. And he is a golden boy who\u2019s going find his own autonomy. And it\u2019s a difficult transition for him from university into entering the limelight as the heir.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd Ed just had an immediate connection with it. We saw a lot of people for it. We did a big old search for that for many months. And we did chemistry reads with him and his brother, and him and Kate. And so it\u2019s kind of quite a process. But it was very clear very early on that Ed was our guy.\u201d<\/p> Sterne also spoke about casting Meg Bellamy<\/a> as Kate, saying that the character has to deal with \u201cvarious pressures\u201d with \u201cgrace and a presence of mind\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that Peter Morgan\u2019s version of the character was very much a person who was having to deal with a lot of pressure with a lot of grace, and a real presence of mind.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re early days \u2013 we see her as a teen and then we see them going to university and we see their kind of relationship starting and the various pressures that she has on her life at that time.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cDealing with that with a grace and a presence of mind, that\u2019s what Meg was brilliant at.\u201d<\/p>\n This final season of The Crown is expected to end around the time of Charles and Camilla\u2019s marriage in 2005, with Camilla star Olivia Williams<\/a> teasing a \u201ctremendous moment, in the very last episode, in the very last moments of the last episode, when the Queen finally accepts Camilla and is warm and complimentary to her.\u201d<\/p> \n