Which 2006 film by Peter Morgan helped inspire The Crown?

The 2006 film by Peter Morgan that helped inspire The Crown is The Queen.

The Queen is a historical drama written by Morgan and directed by Stephen Frears. It focuses on the aftermath of Diana, Princess of Wales’s death in 1997, contrasting Queen Elizabeth II’s private response with Prime Minister Tony Blair’s efforts to address public grief. Helen Mirren plays Elizabeth, while Michael Sheen portrays Blair.

The film gave Morgan experience dramatizing the private pressures surrounding a living monarch and imagining conversations among political and royal figures. That approach became a foundation for The Crown, which expanded the scope to cover Elizabeth’s reign across decades. The television series is not a direct continuation of the film, but it shares its writer and interest in the relationship between the Crown, elected government and public opinion.

The distractors are related Morgan projects but are different productions. The Deal concerns the rise of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Frost/Nixon centers on David Frost’s interviews with Richard Nixon, and The Special Relationship examines Blair and Bill Clinton. The Queen is the relevant 2006 film and the clearest creative predecessor.