‘The Crown’ Rewinds Handover of Hong Kong, Removing Appearance of Last Governor of Hong Kong

‘The Crown’ Rewinds Handover of Hong Kong, Removing Appearance of Last Governor of Hong Kong
A member of Britain's Royal Marines Band play the clarinet in the pouring rain 30 June, 1997 during the British Military Farewell Ceremony marking the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese control. Torsten Blackwood/AFP via Getty Images
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The Crown season five has been released on Netflix recently. In the last episode of season five, episode 10, it took about two minutes to explain that Prince Charles (now King Charles III) came to Hong Kong on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II when the sovereignty of Hong Kong was handed over in 1997. But the role of the last Governor of Hong Kong, Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, is not shown.

The scene of the handover of Hong Kong sovereignty in the episode combines the two events: the farewell ceremony by the British side at Tamar on the early evening of June 30, 1997, and the handover ceremony of Hong Kong late at night at the new wing of the Convention and Exhibition Centre.

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