The season focuses on the split between Charles and Diana and is said to include dramatisations of Princess Diana’s tell-all interview with the BBC and the Queen’s speech, as well as a scene in which then-Prince Charles petitions Prime Minister John Major to force his mother to abdicate.
A spokesperson for Major told The Times UK that The Crown is a “damaging and malicious fiction” and “a barrel-load of nonsense peddled for no other reason than to provide maximum, and entirely false, dramatic impact”.
Netflix writes of the upcoming season: “With the new decade in its stride, the Royal Family are presented with possibly their biggest challenge to date; as the public openly question their role in ’90s Britain.
“Diana (played by Elizabeth Debicki) and Charles (played by Dominic West) wage a media war, the monarchy’s role is up for debate and Queen Elizabeth II’s (played by Imelda Staunton) biggest challenge to date will all be revealed”.
Netflix added a disclaimer to the trailer for season five that states the show is a “fictional dramatisation” that is “inspired by real-life events”, and the show’s creator, Peter Morgan, has repeatedly said his series was not created to be entirely historically accurate.
