'The Crown' Season 3 : First Look at Josh O’Connor as Prince Charles

A new image from The Crown shows one of Season 3's pivotal recreations: Prince Charles' Investiture Ceremony.

Netflix's The Crown is billed as the story of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, from the time she took the throne in 1952 until the present day. The first two seasons stuck to this pretty faithfully. Though Margaret got an episode or two each season, and Charles got his first at the end of Season 2, everything has generally been told from Elizabeth's perspective.

Fans are expecting this to change, at least a little, in the coming seasons, as Elizabeth's children come of age. There's been a great deal of fanfare about the passing of the royal torch from Claire Foy to Olivia Colman in the role of the queen, but there's been just as much focus on the series' casting Prince Charles (The Durrells in Corfu's Josh O'Conner), Princess Anne (Erin Doherty), and Charles' longtime love and future wife, Camilla Parker (Emerald Fennell). Therefore, it should surprise no one that one of the first on-set leaks to go viral from the series is one featuring Charles.

This is also the first look viewers have had from the series of actor Josh O'Conner as the future King of England, and it from one of the pivotal moments the show will stage this year: Charles' 1969 Investiture, the ceremony that made him the official heir to the throne when Elizabeth finally passes.