For an American audience, “The Crown” is entertainment. In Britain, there’s a sense there’s more at stake. Season 5 of the Netflix show premiers at an awkward time for the new king.
,” said she thought the new season not only “very unfair” but “very damaging.”
Robert Lacey, a royal biographer and historical consultant for the show, defended the series in an interview with The Washington Post.“This we feel, of all the decades, of all the seasons, is the most solidly based,” he said. “Not just on fact, but on personal testimony, from Charles and Diana.” Both Charles and Princess Diana contributed to books that told of their unhappy marriage.
The fifth season of “The Crown” begins in 1991, in a rainy-dreary, recession-ridden, out-of-ideas Britain. An impatient Prince Charles in a double-breasted suit is portrayed stomping on the petrol pedal of his beloved sports car and plotting against a frumpy Queen Elizabeth II in a hair helmet.
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