Royal Family news reveals that The Crown creator, in a behind-the-scenes video, called media criticism over the show, “shocking.” Read on and we’ll give you the low down.
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Royal Family News – The Crown Covers the Terrible 90s
Royal Family news reveals that, via Entertainment Weekly, though The Crown has been repeatedly criticized via the media over the last several months, a newly released behind-the-scenes video shows Crown creator Peter Morgan tell viewers that the media was often negative in their coverage of the Royal Family throughout the 1990s. Notable is the next 10 episodes of The Crown cover that decade.
“Season 5 plays against a period of real criticism and uncertainty and un-confidence,” Morgan says in the clip (via PEOPLE). “It’s quite shocking how overtly critical people were of the monarchy at the time.”
Princess Diana and Prince Charles – Two Different Paths
The fifth season of the Crown jumps off in 1992 and looks to cover the period when hostilities between Prince Charles and Princess Diana mesmerized the media along with the rest of the world. The royal couple had officially separated that year, 1992, and would divorce just under half a decade later.
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Then-Prince Charles would project an image of a man worthy of being the UK’s future King, but Diana had other things in mind. The princess tried to build a life for herself beyond The Firm and to tell her side of the couple’s tumultuous story.
Diana’s plight inspired both Andrew Morton’s 1992 book Diana: Her Story, as well as her 1995 TV interview with now-disgraced BBC journalist Martin Bashir. In the 1995 interview, Diana famously referred to Camilla’s role in the breakup, saying, “There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.”
In Defense of The Crown
Variety reports that The Crown has been accused – most recently by James Bond actress Judi Dench – of not being sensitive to the royal family by revisiting past scandals and dramatizing some of the family’s most private moments.
However, Crown stars Imelda Staunton and Lesley Manville came forward of their own accord to defend the show as well as its creator, against criticism – most recently by Judi Dench – over insensitivity to the royal family via dredging up past scandals. “I think that we’re very sensitive to the royal family,” said Manville.
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Staunton, for her part, cited Morgan’s prior work from 1996 — “The Queen,” starring Helen Mirren as the Queen which dealt with the aftermath of Diana’s death, and “The Audience,” his 2013 play about the weekly meetings between the monarch and the Prime Minister — referencing his devotion to this work.
“Peter Morgan has obviously got a huge affection for this family having done the film ‘The Queen’ then ‘The Audience,’ then ‘The Crown,’” Staunton said. “I don’t think he would have bothered to keep going if he wasn’t quite emotionally, I think, involved with it.”
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