It’s previously copped flack for presenting fiction as fact. But the fifth series of The Crown is now being blasted for telling “a pack of lies” about the royal family, with one expert describing it as “malevolence masquerading as quality drama”.
Royal biographer Robert Hardman is one of many people incensed at the liberties the Netflix show has taken, describing it as “10 hours of cruel conjecture and fabrication, artfully wrapped around a skeleton of real events”.
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