Lady Anne Glenconner called the show’s portrayal of the royal family a ‘complete fantasy’
- who not only served as Princess Margaret’s lady-in-waiting but was also a maid of honour at Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation – has opened up about her feelings towards the award-winning show., the 90 year old said, ‘The trouble is that people, especially in America, believe it completely. It’s so irritating. I don’t watchnow because it just makes me so angry. And it’s so unfair on members of the royal family.
Despite Netflix adding a disclaimer to series five, calling the show a ‘fictional dramatization’, Lady Anne believes thatis incredibly damaging to the reputation of the royal family, especially as King Charles makes his ascension to the throne. Pointing out one particular scene from series two which portrayed the Duke of Edinburgh as being responsible for his sister Cecilie taking the flight that resulted in her death in a plane crash in 1937, the socialite and author said, ‘That was completely untrue and I think to say something like that about people is terribly hurting. Nobody wants to have their relations trashed like that.’
In reality, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark died travelling to the UK to attend the wedding of Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine, not, as the show made out, to see her younger brother because he had been misbehaving at school.
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