Royal Family News: Netflix’s The Crown A “Malicious Lie,” Calls to Boycott Show About King Charles

British royal family news shows that Netflix’s series about the royals, The Crown, is getting serious blowback from friends on high places. Yesterday Prime Minister John Major made an outraged declaration against the streamer, the kind of denouncement that should be coming from cricketeer Prince Harry.

According to Major, the streamer is waging a “hurtful” smear campaign against King Charles by putting forth the idea that he tried to oust his own mother, Queen Elizabeth.

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The new season purportedly shows Charles, “lobbying Prime Minister John Major in a bizarre attempt to force his mother’s abdication.” John told The Mail on Sunday that the meeting never happened and called the preposterous idea a, “barrel load of malicious nonsense.” In turn he is asking fans to boycott the show.

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Another VIP source told the outlet, “All the dialogue is completely made up. All the one-to-one conversations you see on screen are utter fiction and some scenes have been entirely created for dramatic and commercial purposes with little regard for the truth. People should be boycotting it.”

To be fair, Netflix has made clear the series is a fictionalized version of reality, not a documentary.

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The first episode of the fifth series opens in 1991. The plot revolves around, “speculation about the future of the monarchy and Charles’s constitutional role.”

The show floats the idea that, “Charles believed his mother, then 65, was repeating Queen Victoria’s mistakes by refusing to stand aside for a younger heir. But critics point out that Charles was in reality acutely aware that abdication was unthinkable and would devalue the institution.”

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Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby is a friend of Charles and he went on the record to say: “The Crown is full of nonsense, but this is nonsense on stilts.” Furthermore, royal author Sally Bedell Smith said, “The events depicted here are outrageous and totally fictional. This program is doing significant damage to people’s perception of history and their perception of the Royal Family. It has been packed full of malicious lies from the beginning but this level of abuse is now beyond the pale.”

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The episode causing the ire airs on November 9. In it, “Charles is buoyed by a newspaper poll showing support for abdication among 47 per cent of the Queen’s subjects. That storyline is based on a genuine poll from 1990, but one with a crucial difference. In the real one, 47 per cent said the Queen should hand over the Throne ‘at some stage’ in the future.” And that, folks, is called creative license.

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