Series five of The Crown will be released in November 2022, Netflix have announced.
Imelda Staunton, 65, who will take over the role of Queen Elizabeth II from Olivia Colman, 47, revealed the exciting news at the streaming platform's global fan event Tudum on Saturday.
Greeting fans from the set of the Emmy Award winning drama, Imelda admitted her 'stomach has been doing somersaults' at the prospect of playing the royal in the series which covers the 1990s, but hopes she will look 'calm, collected and capable'.
Regal: Filming began for the hotly-anticipated fifth series of The Crown in July and Netflix has now revealed the season premiere date - November 2022 - with Imelda Staunton, 65, being unveiled as her version of Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday
Imelda said in the video: 'I'm currently at the set of The Crown where we have just plugged filming season five. I'm delighted to be here, inheriting the role of Queen Elizabeth from two outstanding actresses.
'Most recently the wonderful Olivia Colman and who could forget the actress who originated the part Claire Foy. I will do my utmost to maintain the very high standard they set.
'Hopefully I look calm, collected and capable. My stomach meanwhile has been doing somersaults. From the cast and the crew, we look forward to bringing you the next series of The Crown in November 2022.'
Imelda said in video: 'I'm currently at the set of The Crown where we have just plugged filming season five. I'm delighted to be here, inheriting the role of Queen Elizabeth from two outstanding actresses'
It's coming! She added: 'Hopefully I look calm, collected and capable. My stomach meanwhile has been doing somersaults. From the cast and the crew, we look forward to bringing you the next series of The Crown in November 2022'
Reigning: Olivia Colman was playing the role of The Queen in The Crown's third and fourth series
Original: Claire Foy portrayed the monarch in the first two series (pictured in 2016)
The last two seasons of the portrayed the Royal Family from the 1990s and the new instalment will follow on from the early to mid 1990s.
Aside from series one which debuted in December, all series of The Crown have been released in November in time for the Thanksgiving holiday in the US.
It comes after The Crown ruled supreme at the 2021 Emmy Awards with the Netflix drama winning Outstanding Drama Series and Olivia Colman, Josh O'Connor, Gillian Anderson and Tobias Menzies all nabbing trophies.
The fan favourite show was the night's biggest winner, with seven awards including a sweep of the dramatic acting categories.
The series beat out The Boys, Bridgerton, The Handmaid's Tale, Lovecraft Country, The Mandalorian, Pose, and This Is Us for the accolade. The trophy also gave Netflix its first win in the most elite of Emmy categories.
The Crown won for its fourth season, which followed the British royal family in the 1980s and 1990s with Olivia as Queen Elizabeth II, Josh as Prince Charles and Emma as Princess Diana.
Taking home Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series was Olivia for her role as Queen Elizabeth II, who revealed her father died during Covid as she paid tribute to him in her acceptance speech.
Swept the competition: The Crown beat out The Boys, Bridgerton, The Handmaid's Tale, Lovecraft Country, The Mandalorian, Pose, and This Is Us for the accolade (pictured Josh O' Connor and Emma Corrin as Prince Charles and Princess Diana)
While Olivia won the honor for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Emma had also been nominated for the same award, but looked delighted for her costar as she applauded enthusiastically once Olivia's name was announced.
Josh was the recipient of Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series, and Gillian received the trophy for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series.
Tobias won the honor of Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series but did not attend the ceremony.
As Tobias, who plays Prince Philip, did not attend the show, presenter Kerry Washington accepted the honor on his behalf.
Gillian thanked her ex Peter Morgan, who created The Crown, and her best friend Connie Freidberg.
'I want to say thank you to Peter Morgan for creating this role and to Netflix for everything, everything,' Gillian said.
'But I really want to dedicate this award to a woman who was my manager for 20 years, Connie Freiberg, who believed in me when no one else would and believed I had talent when I didn't even think that I had talent.'
The Crown series five: A London deli owner, a RADA-trained farmer's wife, a former Cutting It actor and an Australian movie star... a look at the brand new faces of Netflix Royal drama
By Ciara Farmer for MailOnline
Filming is underway in Scotland on the hotly-anticipated fifth series of The Crown - with the last two seasons of the hit drama covering the Royal Family in the 1990s to 2003.
With the shift in time periods comes a shift in line-up, with familiar faces such as Olivia Colman (Queen Elizabeth II) and Emma Corrin (Princess Diana) replaced by new stars.
MailOnline takes a look at the brand new faces of the Netflix Royal drama as it prepares to depict one of the most turbulent periods in the Monarchy's history...
PRINCESS DIANA - PLAYED BY ELIZABETH DEBICKI (REPLACING EMMA CORRIN)
Out with the old... MailOnline takes a look at The Crown's new stars for series five - it was announced that Elizabeth had been cast as Princess Diana last August, and fans of the Netflix show were delight to hear that the Australian actress would be taking on the role
Screen star: From her big break in 2013's The Great Gatsby to becoming a household name thanks to 2016 TV series The Night Manager, Elizabeth steadily climbed up the ranks of showbusiness to secure the career-making role
It was announced that Elizabeth, 30, had been cast as Princess Diana last August, and fans of the Netflix show were delighted to hear that the Australian actress would be taking on the role - replacing Emma Corrin.
Past: Emma Corrin played the People's Princess in the show's fourth series
From her big break in 2013's The Great Gatsby to becoming a household name thanks to 2016 TV series The Night Manager, the star steadily climbed up the ranks of showbusiness to secure the career-making role.
A former ballerina in training, Elizabeth switched to theatre during high school. She studied at University of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts, where she was also awarded the Richard Pratt Bursary for outstanding acting students.
She shot to stardom after making her debut in The Great Gatsby in 2013, after impressing the film's director, Baz Luhrmann, with her brief appearance in the 2011 Australian movie A Few Best Men.
Since then, she has appeared in several movies including The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Tenet and The Cloverfield Paradox.
Elizabeth has also done voiceovers for Peter Rabbit and appeared in television series The Kettering Incident and The Night Manager alongside Tom Hiddleston.
The actress said of her casting last year: 'Princess Diana's spirit, her words and her actions live in the hearts of so many. It is my privilege and honour to be joining this masterful series, which has had me absolutely hooked from episode one.'
PRINCESS ANNE - PLAYED BY CLAUDIA HARRISON (REPLACING ERIN DOHERTY)
Who's who? The actress playing Princess Anne in The Crown's fifth season has been revealed as The IT Crowd and Humans star Claudia
RADA-trained performer Claudia was spotted in character on-set at Scotland's Covesea Lighthouse on Tuesday, where she was shooting opposite Imelda Staunton, who is taking on the role of Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix show.
Claudia, 45, boasts a number of TV gigs on her CV as well as a high-profile co-star following her turn in 2005 thriller Archangel, where she starred opposite Daniel Craig in the show about a mystery concerning dictator Josef Stalin.
Throwback: The role of Princess Anne was previously played by Erin Doherty in The Crown's third and fouth series
She is a farmer’s wife and a mother-of-three and is said to have been ‘shocked and delighted’ when she was chosen to play Anne when the Royal was aged in her 40s.
As well as Imelda, Claudia was also shooting alongside Theo Fraser Steele, who is thought to be playing Anne's second husband Timothy Laurence.
After she was seen on set of Tuesday, tongues began wagging over the identity of who was playing the royal and also over her remarkable likeness to Princess Anne.
One Twitter account entitled Royal Watcher, shared a message reading: 'Ok I think the actress playing Princess Anne is called Claudia Harrison? #TheCrown', alongside a trio of images of Claudia in different roles as well as an image from on-set.
The role of Princess Anne was previously played by Erin Doherty in 2019's third and last year's fourth series of The Crown.
TIMOTHY LAURENCE - PLAYED BY THEO FRASER STEELE
Royal role: The Crown's fifth season will feature The Thick Of It star and London deli owner Theo Fraser Steele playing Princess Anne's husband Timothy Laurence (pictured on-set on Tuesday)
Busy: Theo's acting career spans back to 1996, when he starred in Casualty while he also played Christian Holhurst in political satire The Thick Of It in 2005. As well as acting, he is a successful deli owner and runs a shop with his wife in Hackney
The Thick Of It star and London deli owner Theo Fraser Steele plays Princess Anne's husband Timothy Laurence.
He cut a dapper figure during filming to play the role of Anne's spouse, who she married in 1992 after splitting from Mark Phillips.
Theo's acting career spans back to 1996, when he starred in Casualty while he also played Christian Holhurst in political satire The Thick Of It in 2005. As well as acting, he is a successful deli owner and runs a shop with his wife in Hackney.
Theo comes from Essex and trained to be an actor in London before working with Bill Nighy and Stella Gonet in Richard Eyre’s production of David Hare’s Skylight at the National Theatre aged just 23.
He went on to have many stage roles both in the capital and across the country. In The Thick Of It he played an MP’s son who was shoved up against a wall and subjected to a torrent of abuse by the foul-mouthed Malcolm Tucker.
Speaking in 2018 about moving from acting to food, when he told The West Morland Gazette: 'We didn’t choose to do it - we sort of fell into it. It started with just me. We now own the business and have a staff of
