While the transmission of The crown Season 5 on Netflix is coming up, the royal family stiffens. Several passages of the series, which deals with a time closer to us, the 1990s, and quite convulsive for the monarchy – with divorces in ruins and Diana’s death – especially upset the royal family, according to the British press.
The crown It also risks being a reminder, just a month and a half after the Queen died at the height of her popularity, that this was not always the case. And that the British sovereign and monarchy even experienced the disapproval of the British in the 1990s. This season is “incendiary” according to the Times.
Especially since the series is more popular than ever (Netflix subscribers watched it en masse after the queen’s death) and they were looking forward to it.
• When Carlos dreamed of the abdication of the Queen
“The first episode of the upcoming fifth season is set in 1991, against a background of speculation about the future of the monarchy and the constitutional role of Charles,” says the daily mail .
“The authors of The crown suggest that Charles believed his mother, then 65, was repeating Queen Victoria’s mistakes by refusing to step aside for a younger heir.”
We thus see Charles (played by Dominic West) arguing with John Major (Johnny Lee Miller), then Prime Minister of the country, during a secret meeting, his mother’s replacement, also indicates the Times.
A collection of “injurious and malicious lies”, for John Major, quoted by the daily mail, which has already promised to clear the land. The tabloid also interviewed his former foreign secretary, Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
“At the time, the queen was 60 years old, younger than the king today. It’s pure fantasy, and that’s what we expect from this particular show,” the Politics man said.
Several politicians had also campaigned in 2020 for Netflix to clearly warn viewers that The crown It was a fictional show.
• The “tamponade”
The episode, broadcast at the time by the sensationalist press, has surely already resurfaced on the occasion of the accession to the throne of Carlos. But seeing this story laid out on the table probably won’t please Charles too much.
According to sunday time this season deals with the “tampongate” affair, a phone conversation between Carlos and Camila in 1989, which had been leaked to the press in 1993. Prince Charles told his lover that he dreamed of “living inside her pants” and becoming in a buffer. . The series, however, ensures the Times, who has seen all 10 episodes, approaches this scene delicately. “They exchange increasingly risque suggestions about what they would do if they were together,” says the Times, evoking “a scene of sincere affection rather than obscenity.”
• Penelope Knatchbull, Philip’s confidante
Like the episode that tackles the queen’s relationship with her horse trainer Lord Porchester, nicknamed Porchie, in season three, passages from this new season are likely to upset the royal family as well. These are the ones that evoke Philip’s (Jonathan Pryce) relationship with his confidante, the young and pretty Penelope Knatchbull (incarnated as The crown by Natascha McElhone), and their shared passion for bobsled racing.
And if we will only see hands that touch, the series calls into question the true content of their relationship. This should generate, as in 2019 during the third season, a wind of angry protests from the fiercest supporters of the royal family.
Peter Morgan, the creator of the series, has always claimed the fictional part of The crownhowever well documented.
“When you shoot fiction based on real people and real events, you have to constantly ask yourself where you stand in relation to truth and accuracy, and what responsibility is there,” he explained to the Hollywood Report in 2019.
“The good news about the Royal Family and Prime Ministers, he added, is that everyone knows where they are every day. There is no mystery about it. But we must embroider between the dots. This is where the imagination comes in.”
Source: BFM TV
