How Accurate Is The Crown? Real-Life Pictures From The Royal Series

Images ahead of the fourth season appear to show Colman in ceremonial uniform at the annual Trooping the Colour procession in London, which celebrates the Queen's birthday. This photo of the Queen on horseback was taken in 1979.

The married couple of two years embarked on a tour of Australia in 1963, where they danced together at a gala event in Sydney for which Diana wore a blue ruffle dress by Bruce Oldfield.

The couple married in July 1981, a few months after they became engaged, at St Paul's Cathedral in London. The iconic puff sleeve 1980s dress Lady Diana Spencer wore was made by British designers David and Elizabeth Emanuel.

In 1981, the Prince of Wales proposed to Lady Diana Spencer with a sapphire ring, that now belongs to Kate Middleton.

Judging from these photos of Gillian Anderson entering parliament, it resembles Thatcher's first day in office, on June 4, 1979.

The Conservative politician was elected the UK's first female prime minister on May 4, and celebrated with a wave along with her husband Denis outside number 10.

Since first being linked to Prince Charles in 1980, Lady Diana Spencer was hounded by the press and photographers - something which sadly continued through her life.

Tragically, the story of the mining disaster which buried a school in the Welsh village of Aberfan in 1966 is real. Queen Elizabeth visited the grieving town days later.

Charles was officially celebrated as the Prince of Wales in 1969 at a ceremony held at Caernarfon Castle.

In 1961, the US president John F Kennedy and his wife Jackie made a state visit to the UK, and dined with the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh at a banquet.

During a 1961 visit to Ghana (four years after the West African country gained independence), the Queen did the foxtrot with President Kwame Nkrumah.

Queen Elizabeth II was coronated at Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1952. Her eldest son, Prince Charles, was sat on the balcony in between the Queen Mother and his aunt, Princess Margaret, and IRL looked a tad more bored than the drama depicted.

The former King, who abdicated to marry Wallace Simpson, and was subsequently known as the Duke of Windsor visited London from France in 1953 for the funeral of his brother, the late King George VI. While in the UK capital, he visited the prime minister, Winston Churchill.

She was Princess Elizabeth when she visited Kenya on an official Commonwealth visit in 1952. It was there that the 25-year-old learned her father King George VI had passed away and, as heir to the throne, that she would be Queen.

The royal couple married on November 20, 1947 at Westminster Abbey.