For four days, the Netflix series filmed at the cathedral as pat of MP Merritt Grove’s funeral scenes in episode 2.
“Nobody has ever closed St Paul’s for four full days, which we did,” supervising location manager E.J. Richards told Netflix’s TUDUM. “Not even the queen.”
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She added that St Paul’s Cathedral was “one of the most difficult locations to shoot, even for a day” because of the high number of visitors and tourists around. “It’s world-renowned,” she said. “Every day they have services, they have tourists, they have local people that use the church.”
The show’s producer Debora Cahn told Netflix’s TUDUM that they were even able to borrow the cathedral’s robes. “The robes our clergy wore were lent to us by the cathedral,” she said. “It was the fourth time they’d ever been worn, including Winston Churchill’s funeral, and Margaret Thatcher’s. It was breathtaking.”
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