Netflix confirms 'The Crown' will end with Season 5 starring Imelda Staunton

Netflix's The Crown has confirmed its final season — and its final queen.

Harry Potter actress Imelda Staunton (seen most recently in the Downton Abbey film) will play Queen Elizabeth II for The Crown's fifth and final season.

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While many viewers and show runner Peter Morgan himself expected six seasons, Morgan told The Hollywood Reporter that Season 5 felt like "the perfect time and place to stop."

Each season of Netflix's The Crown has covered roughly a decade in the British monarch's life and times, with Season 3 taking us up to 1977. Season 4 will likely cover the '80s and some of the '90s (we already have a Princess Diana actress cast, though she has yet to appear), ending with a fifth season before Prince William and Prince Harry's adulthood (so no Kate Middleton or Meghan Markle).

Staunton, a longtime Crown fan, expressed how excited she was to take on the role.

"As an actor it was a joy to see how both Claire Foy and Olivia Colman brought something special and unique to Peter Morgan’s scripts," she said in a statement. "I am genuinely honored to be joining such an exceptional creative team and to be taking The Crown to its conclusion."

The Crown Seasons 1-3 are now streaming on Netflix.