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Prince Charles in The Crown

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CardoMondo · 07/12/2020 22:34

Ok I know it’s fictional (supposedly) but my god why did they make Charles so dippy and gormless?! I’m on season 3 - Charles is a young man but acts like a bloody 3 year old, all the OTT excitement and hand flapping inbetween looking worried and confused all the time ... most of the characters seem pretty true to their “real like counterparts” but Charles? Surely he wasn’t like this in real life? I can’t stand him! He comes across as a total idiot! (In the drama that is)

AIBU to think the writers really did the dirty on Charles in this?

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charlieclown · 07/12/2020 22:37

I don't know but that actor is a smooshy dish. Especially in the durrells. Mmmmmm

Ferrari458 · 07/12/2020 22:42

How can you say that most of the characters seem pretty "true"... ? We only see their public persona. It's fiction, the characters are fiction and even as someone who is no royalist I think it's calculated to put the royals in a poor light. Just one example - Thatcher didn't go out shooting with the Queen...

Apileofballyhoo · 07/12/2020 22:44

@charlieclown

I don't know but that actor is a smooshy dish. Especially in the durrells. Mmmmmm
Far too good looking to play Charles.
liveitwell · 07/12/2020 22:45

Currently on season 4 and I hate him! Didn't mind him in previous seasons but the way he's handling his love life seems really disrespectful. There's naive and then there's selfish. I think he falls in the last category. Spineless.

TheRuleofStix · 07/12/2020 22:47

He’s a pampered mummy’s boy who stamps his foot and expects to get what he wants. That’s how he always comes across. His jealousy of his young wife is cringeworthy. I have no time for any of that awful family, but I think he’s one of the worst.

Ferrari458 · 08/12/2020 12:13

And here is a demonstration of how people can be influenced in real life by fictional depictions on TV. This series has given 1,000's of people the impression that they now actually know, for a fact, what goes on behind closed doors in the royal family. The news is - they don't.

BigFatLiar · 08/12/2020 12:18

I went on a course ages ago with someone who knew both Charles and Andrew in the military. Their view Charles not the brightest but a gent who treated those he was in charge of well, Andrew an arrogant and unpleasant person.

SacramentoQueen · 08/12/2020 12:27

@Ferrari458

And here is a demonstration of how people can be influenced in real life by fictional depictions on TV. This series has given 1,000's of people the impression that they now actually know, for a fact, what goes on behind closed doors in the royal family. The news is - they don't.
This. I actually feel quite sorry for Charles and Camilla with all the abuse they are getting from people who have watched The Crown thinking it’s a documentary. No matter how privileged they are or even if some events depicted in the crown have some basis in reality, nobody deserves that level of online bullying from thousands of strangers
ApolloandDaphne · 08/12/2020 12:34

I've met him. He was a bit of a drip and a damp squib. I think he is portrayed very accurately!

Clawdy · 08/12/2020 12:42

Can't see him as a "pampered mummy's boy", as most people felt the Queen was a distant, rather cold mother at the time, and he was sent away to board at one of the grimmest boarding schools ever !

FelicityPike · 08/12/2020 12:44

Why is he constantly hunched over?

SonjaMorgan · 08/12/2020 12:46

I haven't seen the crown but I have a lot of respect for Prince Charles and his campaigning around biodiversity. I don't always agree with him but he is very passionate and dedicated.

VickyEadieofThigh · 08/12/2020 12:48

@FelicityPike

Why is he constantly hunched over?
I said this every time he appeared on screen. I don't care for Charles (and have never done) but he doesn't walk or stand like that.
MissHoney85 · 08/12/2020 12:51

I think the stoop is pretty typical of Charles, that's how I think of him walking. He always has a slightly mournful, world-on-his-shoulders thing going on. Always has his hands in his suit pockets too.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 08/12/2020 12:51

@BigFatLiar

I went on a course ages ago with someone who knew both Charles and Andrew in the military. Their view Charles not the brightest but a gent who treated those he was in charge of well, Andrew an arrogant and unpleasant person.
We’re watching series 2 at the moment so I was reading about Gordonstoun and thought it was rather interesting that Philip, Charles and Edward were all Head Boy, Andrew not.
GetOffYourHighHorse · 08/12/2020 12:52

It's bizarre. The writers wang on about it being a drama and fiction, yet they've got them all mimicking their voices and hair/clothes. So they've gone to great effort to recreate some stuff just not all of it. It's like a bad episode if Spitting Image. Gillian Anderson's whispery, hunched Thatcher was ridiculous.
I'm not a royal fan by any stretch but I've no idea how they get away with such defamatory crap.
That said I quite like Philip in series 4.

SingANewSongChickenTikka · 08/12/2020 12:54

I've met him. He was a bit of a drip and a damp squib. I think he is portrayed very accurately!

I used to work alongside one of his charities and worked directly with him on a few occasions. My impression is very different to yours. Came across as very passionate, involved and capable.
Guess that shows that even some direct access tells us nothing, let alone a fictional drama on Netflix.

ApolloandDaphne · 08/12/2020 12:55

He does have a slightly stooped posture.

Rae36 · 08/12/2020 12:56

I nearly stopped watching when Gillian Anderson's Thatcher voice started, it was so annoying.
I'm also watching X Files with teenage ds and Gillian Anderson is locked in the boot of a psychopath's car right now. Confusing.

hansgrueber · 08/12/2020 12:58

AIBU to think the writers really did the dirty on Charles in this?

Isn't this the whole point of this ghastly series? Charles and Anne are the worst characterisations in the 4th series, her voice is like a strangulated hernia.

hansgrueber · 08/12/2020 13:00

@SingANewSongChickenTikka

I've met him. He was a bit of a drip and a damp squib. I think he is portrayed very accurately!

I used to work alongside one of his charities and worked directly with him on a few occasions. My impression is very different to yours. Came across as very passionate, involved and capable.
Guess that shows that even some direct access tells us nothing, let alone a fictional drama on Netflix.

We knew a lot of people who knew him in the 70s when he was in the Navy and he never seemed to be drippy, quite the party animal........!
ApolloandDaphne · 08/12/2020 13:14

To be honest when I met him it was after a very difficult thing that happened in our community. I suspect he was trying to be compassionate and empathetic but I just was not in the mood to entertain it! So you are right - context is all.

MissHoney85 · 08/12/2020 13:18

I think Gillian Anderson's voice sounds ridiculous because Thatcher's did - her voice was as fake as Anderson's is, she had voice coaching to make it lower and more 'authoritative'. Similar with Diana - at first I thought the actress was totally overdoing all those coy mannerisms, but when you look back she actually was like that. I don't think the actress is tall and willowy enough to really capture her though.

FelicityPike · 08/12/2020 13:18

I live near one of his properties and have met him a few times, yes, he’s slightly stopped nowadays but not like that and not at that age.

FelicityPike · 08/12/2020 13:20

Stooped