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British royal family news reveals that the writer and creator of Netflix’s The Crown, Peter Morgan, has taken the planet by storm. If just for a few minutes, viewers of the royal family drama can forget all about COVID and fixate on some other family’s misery.
It’s estimated that tens of millions are watching the series in various turns described as a soap opera, exploitative, and yes, incredibly realistic. So which is it, should viewers view The Crown as fact or fiction?
People are coming out of the woodwork to claim some sort of authority on the subject and British journalist Max Hastings is one of them. “I was a privileged spectator of the royal dramas of those years. As a newspaper editor from 1986 to 2002, I trafficked with almost all the Family, and was among those whose support Diana sought after her separation from Charles. I had the privilege of having my advice – publicly to say nothing, say nothing, say nothing about their troubles – rejected by both the Prince and Princess of Wales,” he states.
Should We Believe The Point Of View Of Max Hastings On The Crown?
He makes clear his insider status, but also has a strong bias about the royals saying of Diana, “Like most men, I was potty about her, of course. She possessed a radiance that lit up any company; was also fun. Our private meetings started in 1992, in much the same fashion as those she initiated with other journalists. She wrote me a coy little note, suggesting that I should come up and see her some time:
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“Dear Max, I read the editorial about me in today’s Daily Telegraph with interest (as you might imagine!). Though in many ways doubtless a model of good sense, I feel it suffers for being based inevitably on incomplete knowledge. I wonder if you might find it useful to come to Kensington Palace to talk to me privately. Your next pronouncement might be even more authoritative!”
Max Hastings Makes It Clear He Had Many Meetings With Diana
So what does he think of The Crown? He writes, “One feature of The Crown seems completely mistaken: The intimate conversation between family members. The Queen says stuff onscreen to her children, and to her prime ministers, that I refuse to believe she would really articulate. The hallmark of her monarchy has been discretion, carried to the point of obsession. She never lowers her guard; sidesteps confrontation; is an instinctive listener rather than a talker, except to a very few trusted confidants.”
But he does think the show, “captures one almost unanswerable truth. Diana, an innocent, did nothing to deserve the ghastly fate which royal captivity and global celebrity inflicted upon the people’s princess.”
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The Crown is a series based on a real family. Taken from the headlines.