Netflix adds disclaimer under The Crown's trailer for
series five
Published
1 day ago
By Paul
Glynn and Helen Bushby
Entertainment
reporter
Netflix has added a disclaimer to its marketing for
The Crown, saying the show is a "fictional dramatisation",
"inspired by real-life events".
It appears
under the YouTube trailer for the upcoming series five and on the streaming
site's title synopsis page.
Netflix
told BBC News the show "has always been presented as a drama based on
historical events".
Dame Judi
Dench and ex-Prime Minister Sir John Major have raised concerns about the
accuracy of the royal drama.
The
description of the series says: "Inspired by real events, this fictional
dramatisation tells the story of Queen Elizabeth II and the political and
personal events that shaped her reign."
Similar
language has been used in press statements before, but no previous trailers or
synopsis descriptions have carried the word "fictional".
This week,
Dame Judi became the latest high-profile figure to call for The Crown to have a
disclaimer at the start of each episode, to make clear the series is not
necessarily true.
The
actress, who is close to King Charles and the Queen Consort, said Netflix
"seems willing to blur the lines between historical accuracy and crude
sensationalism".
She added
there was a risk that "a significant number of viewers" would take
its events as historical truth.
The Oscar
winner, who has portrayed Queen Victoria on screen, said suggestions expected
to be made in the new series were "cruelly unjust to the individuals and
damaging to the institution they represent", especially coming so soon
after the death of the Queen.
'Scrutinised
and well documented'
Netflix has
defended The Crown, saying series five is "a fictional dramatisation,
imagining what could have happened behind closed doors during a significant
decade for the royal family - one that has already been scrutinised and well
documented by journalists, biographers and historians."
The trailer
for the new series, which airs on 9 November, was released on Thursday. It
suggests the series will focus heavily on Diana, Princess of Wales, and the
fallout as she and Prince Charles, as he was then, prepare to divorce.
It includes
a recreation of Princess Diana's 1995 interview with Martin Bashir. The real footage
will not be shown on the BBC again after an inquiry found "deceitful"
means were used to obtain it.
Diana,
played by Elizabeth Debicki, is seen telling Bashir, portrayed by Prasanna
Puwanarajah: "I won't go quietly, I'll battle until the end." In real
life, Princess Diana did not say that in the interview.
Netflix
defends The Crown after John Major rebuke
Dame Judi's
comments followed concerns by former prime minister Sir John Major, who said an
upcoming scene that is said to include a conversation between him and Prince
Charles, as he was then, about the Queen abdicating, was "a barrel-load of
malicious nonsense"
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