• Burghley House, which is near Stamford in Lincolnshire, re-created the terrible fire for The Crown.
• The late Queen then gave a speech to mark her 40 years on the throne.
• 1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure.

After a terrible fire at Windsor Castle and a string of scandals for the firm, The Crown recently showed Queen Elizabeth II’s “Annus horribilis.”

The breakups of Charles and Diana’s marriage and Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s marriage made 1992 a hard year for the Royal Family.

Burghley House, which is near Stamford in Lincolnshire, re-created the terrible fire for The Crown. It is said that the filming took more than two days and that almost 60 extras played firemen and soldiers.

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The late Queen then gave a speech to mark her 40 years on the throne. In it, she said: “1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure.”

“In the world of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an annus horribilis.”