![]() ![]() Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images The Crown is a drama, not a documentary, and is being pilloried by critics like Dench and Charles’ allies for not hewing closer to the diktats of the latter rather than former. “The time has come for Netflix to reconsider, for the sake of a family and a nation so recently bereaved, as a mark of respect to a sovereign who served her people so dutifully for 70 years, and to preserve their own reputation in the eyes of their British subscribers.” Despite this week stating publicly that The Crown has always been a ‘fictionalized drama’ the programme makers have resisted all calls for them to carry a disclaimer at the start of each episode. The streamer is said to have been taken aback by the pushback to many of its fictionalized scenes, including an attack by former British prime minister Sir John Major, who explicitly denied that any conversation between himself and Charles about encouraging the queen to abdicate had taken place.Ī letter to the London Times from the revered British actress Dame Judi Dench also helped moved the conversation about dramatic license and the appropriateness of a disclaimer into the spotlight domestically.ĭench, a friend of Camilla’s, wrote: “Given some of the wounding suggestions apparently contained in the new series-that King Charles plotted for his mother to abdicate, for example, or once suggested his mother’s parenting was so deficient that she might have deserved a jail sentence-this is both cruelly unjust to the individuals and damaging to the institution they represent… this cannot go unchallenged. ![]() Their hopes have been raised by such a note being added to the trailer to the series, which suggests Netflix may at least be considering making the same concession when the real thing drops on Monday. While the palace declined to comment to The Daily Beast for this article, hopes continue to circulate among Charles’ friends that Netflix will finally cede to calls to append a disclaimer to the show making clear it is fiction. Most public figures, faced with such a potentially harmful media onslaught, would be wargaming counter-attacks and rehearsing lines of defense.Ĭharles, however, has little option according to friends and palace sources other than to “keep calm and carry on” over the coming days and weeks, as he seeks to weather the inevitable media storm by following the late queen’s example of “dignified silence” a friend of the prince told The Daily Beast. On Monday, however, a miserable winter of challenging media portrayals of him and his family will begin, thanks to the new series of The Crown, before Harry and Meghan’s Netflix reality show tracking their new lives in California hits TV and laptop screens, which will itself be followed by Harry’s candid memoir, Spare-due to be published Jan. King Charles III barely has his feet under the metaphorical table of Buckingham Palace. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Sunday. Royalist is The Daily Beast’s newsletter for all things royal and Royal Family. ![]()
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