The Crown isn’t making the royal family look bad. They do a fine job of that themselves | Catherine Bennett
Whatever the guild of royal experts says, Peter Morgan’s series can’t match the truth of its unlovely subjects
Which, below, did the Prince of Wales not say?
a) “I am the Prince of Wales and I will be King!”
b) “I need encouragement and the occasional pat on the back too.”
c) “Darling, come back, of course I want to hug you.”
Any accredited royal writer would know instantly that the answer is b), a line from season 4 of Peter Morgan’s . The first quote was aimed by a tantruming Charles, along with a book, at Paul Burrell. “I can still see its fluttering pages whirring through the air,” Burrell wrote in. Quote c) is from by Wendy Berry, a book banned in the UK. “In 1986,” she wrote, “Diana was still making an effort to be loving and affectionate to her husband.”
