The Queen of England had expressed, in the early days, her nervousness at the idea of her life being transcribed on the small screen, on a platform viewed by millions of users.
Before being more enthusiastic.
Because it could contribute to the influence of the British monarchy?
As we know from the confidences of a source close to the royal family, the sovereign had watched the first episodes of The Crown in her Balmoral residence in 2016.
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Freedoms taken with reality
Her third son and youngest child, Prince Edward, is said to have convinced her to take the time to watch the series.
“Fortunately, she liked it a lot, even if it is obvious that she found the representation of certain events too fictionalized”
, confided the source in question to the
Daily Express
.
The Crown
tells the story of the second half of the 20th century as seen from the salons of the royal family, beginning with the marriage, in 1947, of the young Elizabeth.
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“The screenwriter Peter Morgan knows the biography of the queen very well
, explained to us the journalist and author Pierre oublie in 2020.
He signed the screenplay for the film
The Queen
.
He is a fine connoisseur of the history of his country.
He did not go there with his hands in his pockets.
He is surrounded by a team of historians and consultants.
Their work is remarkable both in terms of sets and costumes.
The request of the Minister of Culture
That didn't stop the queen from being upset about the second season.
In particular by certain scenes with Prince Philip, her husband: “
She did not appreciate
, we read in the
Sunday Express
,
that he was represented as a father insensitive to the well-being of his son.
She was particularly annoyed by the scene where Philip shows no kindness to Charles, as he brings him home from Scotland.
This event simply never happened
.”
For the purposes of the narration, liberties had indeed been taken with reality in certain episodes.
This will have strongly displeased Elizabeth.
So to Stéphane Bern.
Our royalty specialist was surprised, in turn, at the way Prince Philip is presented:
“The series
The Crown
makes him a rather unsympathetic character that I find quite far from the truth (…) For example , in the series, it is said that the Duke of Edinburgh did not want a plane chartered to rescue his mother,
the famous Princess Alice of Greece
, during the coup d'etat of the "colonels" and that it would be the queen who would have done everything without her knowledge.
I know very well that all of this is false.
It was he who was anxious for his mother and who wanted to go get her right away.
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In 2021, the fourth season of the hit Netflix program which still mixed reality and fiction in its painting of the Thatcher years, had once again angered Buckingham Palace.
She evoked with acidity the relationship between prince Charles and Lady Di.
The Minister of Culture then asked, in vain, Netflix to clearly indicate that the series was fiction by placing a warning at the beginning of each episode.
Asked at the same time, Prince Harry was less vehement with the Netflix series:
The Crown
"is a fictional story of course, very freely based on reality (...) but which gives a wave idea of the pressures a member of the royal family is under”.