There are those who are fans, those who boycott, those who do not want to talk about it. In the British royal family, not everyone has the same approach to the series. The crown.
If the defenders of the monarchy have already begun demining work, before the broadcast of this fifth season on Netflix, which promises to be very controversial, the royal family has been careful to express itself.
However, whether they admit it or not, everyone in the family has seen the show. This is what they say.
Charles: “I’m not how Netflix portrays me”
King Charles is one of the worst in The crown. If he has never mentioned the series in public, the sovereign released last August during a meeting with Scottish politicians: “Hello, nice to meet you all. Play on Netflix.” Somewhat strange comments, reported by Anas Sarwar, the leader of the Scottish Labor Party, who attended the scene, but obviously never confirmed by Clarence House.
Charles is shown in the fourth season of the series as the main architect of the failure of his marriage with Diana, selfish, unfaithful and insensitive to her anguish. Season five isn’t going to fix his case. He appears in particular as an ambitious man, eager to replace his mother, Queen Elizabeth, whom he considers old-fashioned. This season also shows his divorce from Diana.
Camilla: “My fictional alter ego is here to take over”
Camilla, now queen consort, did more than comment on the series, she met the actress who plays her in season 4. Much more relaxed than Charles on the subject, she even played the humor card.
“It’s reassuring knowing that if I break my pipe, my fictional alter ego is there to take over. So Emerald, get ready!” she joked when she met Emerald Fennell on International Women’s Day, March 9, 2022. .
Harry: “Gives a rough idea of this way of life”
In 2021, Prince Harry talked about it more freely since he wasn’t in the series yet. “I saw some of that,” he explained in Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan. He also indicated to James Corden that he had no problem with the series. In any case much less than with the sensationalist press. “It’s not meant to be information. It’s fiction. But it’s loosely based on the truth.”
The prince, then newly installed in California, even took the opportunity to send him a personal message.
“Of course that’s not strictly accurate. It gives you a rough idea of what that way of life is, the pressures of putting duty and service before family and everything else, what can result.”
Prince Harry and his brother William appear as children in the fifth season of the series.
Harry, who is about to publish his autobiography, is also under contract to Netflix for several documentaries, including one about his life with Meghan Markle, which may soften his take on the series.
William: “No”
If William looks The crown, is careful not to say. Olivia Colman, who camped out to Queen Elizabeth in seasons 3 and 4, told this anecdote on the show. The Graham Norton Show.
“I met Prince William at a dinner party and he asked me what I was doing at the time before quickly adding, ‘I actually know what you’re doing.’ He was so excited that I said, ‘Did you see?’ His answer was a firm ‘No’.
Eugenia: “My grandmother likes it a lot”
If according to Vanity Fair, citing sources close to the royal family, the queen “did not want to see herself in a television fiction”, it is possible that the sovereign has still taken a look at it. The crown. According to Vanessa Kirby, who played Princess Margaret in the first two seasons, Princess Eugenie, Queen Eilzabeth’s granddaughter, said at a party that her grandmother watched the show and “loved it so much.”
Matt Smith, who camped out to Prince Philip in his youth, also heard that the sovereign was watching the series.
“It seems that Queen Elizabeth adores”, even Stéphane Bern had assured in 2019. The series then portrayed the queen’s young years. I am not sure that the sovereign has tried the episodes from the 1990s, and the famous “annus horribilis”, from the fifth season.
Out of respect for the sovereign, Netflix suspended the shooting of the sixth season of the series, after her death last September.
Anne: “I don’t watch Netflix”
Princess Anne says she doesn’t look The crown. But she has an opinion about the series, or at least about the actress who plays her in seasons 3 and 4.
“I read an article, I don’t watch Netflix or ‘The Crown’, but the actress was talking about how long it took her to recreate my hairstyle, she told the ‘Times’. And I thought, I said ‘How is this possible? take so long? It takes 10 or 15 minutes.
Again, the information is second-hand, but according to Matt Smith, a “leading person in the world of cinema”, it was found in 2017 at a dinner attended by Prince Philip. Curious to know if the queen’s husband was watching the series which was in its early seasons, the man asks, “Philip, I’m just wondering, because I have friends who have done The crown Have you looked at it?”, to which the prince replies, with a grim look: “Don’t be ridiculous”.
Sarah Ferguson: ‘I loved the staging of my wedding’
It was rumored last year that the duchess of york, the ex-wife of Prince Andrew, had offered her services to the creators of the series. She even told Town & Country magazine that she wrote to producer Andy Harries. “I told him ‘why can’t I help develop my character?'” The duchess’s offer was politely declined.
However, a spokesman for the Duchess recently denied that Sarah Ferguson had been in contact last year with Andy Harries, who produces The crown, but for another reason. “They had a discussion about the possibility of adapting her novel ‘Her Heart for a Compass’ into a television series.”
Sarah Ferguson, for her part, was very ecstatic, in the columns of US Weekly about the staging of the series. “I thought it was beautifully shot,” she said. “i loved the way who organized my wedding too”.
Source: BFM TV
