The Crown - Next Series

[antelopevalley]

The next series will be starting on the 9th of November. Imelda Staunton will be playing the Queen. Tobias Menzies is playing Philip.

Historical events we’re likely to see in season 5 of The Crown:
Prince Andrew’s divorce
Princess Anne’s divorce
Windsor Castle fire
The separation/divorce of Prince Charles and Lady Diana
The Queen sues The Sun newspaper
The death of Princess Diana
Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister
www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/the-crown-season-5-on-netflix-everything-we-know-so-far-09-2022/

Who will be watching it?

Oh right so now you're spinning the RF got the interview removed. Pull the other one, it's got bells on, as my gran used to say.
Charles never said it. The Crown made it up.
Also the inaccuracies in The Crown go far beyond substituting one palace for another. They include being years out on events; fabricating correspondence - and by that I mean the correspondence didn't exist at all - Peter Morgan made it all up completely; fictitious meetings.
Fwiw regarding the Charles/Major conversation, The Crown has responded to Major's criticisms by saying The Crown is fiction and they just imagine stuff. So no-one on The Crown is saying it's true.
Ready to apologise yet @antelopevalley ? The Crown and Major have both said the Charles storyline is fiction.

Pretty sure it's the OP's favourite source for all things royal.

The site which is bitchy about celebrities. Or words to that effect.

Thanks for the reminder about John Major and Edwina Curry! I had successfully managed to forget that 😂🤮 it proper put me off my lunch at the time as Curry had gone into detail I think about where and when they were shagging!
I wonder if that’s going to be in The Crown ?

Charles did two interviews with Dimbleby.
news.yahoo.com/prince-charles-convinced-adultery-confession-interview-145702849.html

FWIW, and as I recall it, the alleged "abdication row" was nothing to do with The Crown but said to have come from a remark made by a member of Charles's household

With a strong caveat that it's probably all nonsense too, the only thing I can find is this - apologies for it being the Express, but I thought it might offer some clue to the incident being mentioned: www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1544113/queen-news-furious-prince-charles-royal-household-abdication-royal-family-spt

Yes we know that.

But where did Charles speak of his wish that the queen would abdicate?

And where, other than the above mentioned royal hate site masqurading as a 'gossip' site, did you 'read' about this?

I find yahoo awful, do others still use this?

I remember Charles laughing at a Royal Variety show when a comedian joked that Charles must be desperate for the queen to abdicate.

Which comedian ?

This is getting tiresome and ridiculous now , your really clutching at straws to prove something you imagined is true! , do you think the grief and tears on his face after his mother died was an act?
Really?

@Readinginthesun , probably my blobby!

Mr

I think it was Dennis Healy who said “ when you are in a hole, stop digging”
Wise advice.

Yes indeed! , @Readinginthesun are you finding this as irritating as me?

A combination of irritated and mildly amused !

And?

I do actually think that The Crown is on thin ice dramatising real, living people. Genuine damage could be done to a person's reputation when conversations and actions are attributed to their character in a drama.
If my real name and appearance was used in this way, it wouldn't be enough for me that this series is filed under 'drama' in the Netflix categories, I'd want proper disclaimers that this was fiction.
As it stands, there's enough truth in the series to lead some to think there's no smoke without fire. Especially now we are getting to events within our living memory.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone sued for defamation of character at some point. Not a royal but a politician maybe.

@ImAvingOops , a very good point! , to be honest I was surprised that they are allowed to do this , aren't papers at risk of slander? , surely there must be something similar for film and tv?

Also what is the good of saying it's drama , when som people believe all sorts if it's on tv? , I think it's telling they refused to put a disclaimer that it's fictional on the credits!

And yet you can't remember where you read about Charles "apparently" telling Dimbleby he wanted the queen to abdicate?

Someone bought me the DVD of the first series and I watched about half of it. I haven't watched any more. Of course they get the basics right, like PM marrying Anthony Armstrong-Jones, but they can't possibly get all the actions or conversations or feelings correct. It's a disgrace that some people are so dumbo that they think it's all true, and some actors have gone down in my estimation for taking part.

I think Claire Foy and Matt Smith did a good job of portraying some of the difficulties of the early years - what it might have felt like to a 1950s husband to find himself eclipsed in terms of importance, the conflicting loyalties of bring a young mother, wife and Queen. If anything, I believe they increased sympathy and affection towards the RF.
But if I was an actor, I wouldn't touch the Charles and Diana stuff with a barge pole.

I was wondering about Penny Knatchbull suing.

Hasn’t it got a disclaimer on it at the end to say it’s a work of fiction?
I get that it could be more prominent and some people are a bit daft.
I thought that The Crown showed the Queen in a good light, other than the silly invention of her faking tears at Aberfan, seriously that wasn’t a dramatic enough story on its own ? I had more sympathy for her and Prince Philip with his tragic childhood after watching it,

I did not say I could not remember. You frequently lie about what I said. I did not answer the question.