\u0027The Crown\u0027 bosses have been branded \u0022cruel\u0022 for showing Prince Philip pursing an affair in the new series.
The fifth season of the Netflix drama is set to hit screens next month and one plot will see the late Duke of Edinburgh – who died in April 2021 – grow close to old friend Penny Knatchbull, who is now Countess Mountatten of Burma, and confiding in her about his marital “problems” while teaching her carriage driving.From our newsroom to your inbox at noon, the latest headlines, stories, opinion and photos from the Toronto Sun.
“The truth is that Penny was a long-time friend of the whole family. Netflix are not interested in people’s feelings.”Article content She said: “It’s in exceedingly bad taste. This is fiction. There’s no way in a million years he’d discuss his marriage with anybody. The royals probably won’t watch it for their own sanity.”
In 2018, show creator Peter Morgan admitted some parts of the show require “leaps of the imagination” from the writers, even though it is thoroughly researched.“Maybe sometimes I get it wrong, because they aren’t friends of mine. So it’s a tricky one.”
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