How accurate is The Crown season 4? What’s true and
false in the Netflix series
The royal
historian Hugo Vickers separates fact from fiction
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-accurate-is-the-crown-season-4-true-false-netflix-bz6b7gpcd
(...) "The
historian Hugo Vickers has already detailed eight complete fabrications in the
new series, all caricaturing the royal family in the worst possible light. They
are:
1. Lord Mountbatten wrote a letter to Prince
Charles the day before his death.
2. The royal family laid protocol traps to
humiliate Margaret Thatcher on a visit to Balmoral.
3. Princess Margaret ridiculed Princess Diana for
not being able to curtsey.
4. Prince Charles called Camilla Parker Bowles
every day in the early years of his marriage.
5. Princess Diana threw a tantrum on a visit to
Australia and forced the plans to be changed.
6. Princess Margaret visited two of the Queen’s
cousins, who had been placed in a “state lunatic asylum” to avoid embarrassing
the monarchy.
7. The Queen was responsible for leaking her view
of Thatcher as “uncaring”.
8. The Queen was repeatedly shown wrongly dressed
for Trooping the Colour.
These are
on a par with the “revelations” in an earlier series, one implicating Prince
Philip in the Profumo affair and another hinting at infidelity. The intention
was clearly to give a shudder of shock to viewers lulled into assuming it was
all true.
The royal
family can look after themselves, and usually do. I am less sure of history,
and especially contemporary history. The validity of “true story” docu-dramas
can only lie in their veracity. We have to believe they are true, or why are we
wasting our time?"(...)
Simon
Jenkins
"The Crown's
fake history is as corrosive as fake news"
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