The Royals vs 'The Crown': Palace frantic about King Charles’s reputation after Netflix airs Season 5 teaser
LONDON, UK: Popular Netflix show 'The Crown' is all set to release its new season. But while fans are rejoicing, Buckingham Palace is understandbly nervous. It has already moved to protect King Charles’ reputation as Season 5 will dramatize rather painful events from the monarch's past. The fifth season will showcase Charles’ bitter divorce from Princess Diana and his relationship with Queen Consort Camilla.
The royal drama will premiere on November 9 and Netflix has already released the trailer. It showed Princess Diana, played by Elizabeth Debicki, and Prince Charles, played by Dominic West, preparing for an interview.
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The show's new season will air when King Charles will have completed two months of his reign. However, Buckingham Palace is trying to protect the new monarch’s reputation, as a senior royal source said that the show is a "drama not a documentary."
While speaking to The Telegraph, a close confidant of the King said that the international streaming giant "would have no qualms about ruining people’s reputations", calling the show "exploitative." The friend said to the outlet, "what people forget is that real people and real lives are at the heart of it."
In the latest teaser clip of 'The Crown', a reporter speaks about how the royal couple’s marriage is deteriorating. The short 37-second clip sees a reporter calling the royal couple's hostile actions as ‘all out war.’
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— Pearl Kadapul (@PearlKadupul) September 24, 2022
The historical drama television series has so far run for four seasons, covering the life and rule of Britain's longest-serving monarch. It has been the recipient of accolades and favorable reactions, with fans hooked on the retelling of history, politics and royal family drama during the 1900s.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Netflix revealed that the series had been completed before the Queen’s death on September 8, and no changes had been made. A source told The Telegraph that the show "will have more opportunities to compare real people with the fiction they see on The Crown." The source added, "they didn’t get as much coverage in the past, so in that sense it was hard for people to compare and contrast reality with drama."
The fifth series will cover the events in the 90s, including the late monarch’s annus horribilis, in which Prince Andrew and Prince Charles separated from their wives, and the divorce of Princess Anne from her husband Mark Phillips and the burning of Windsor Castle. Principally created by Peter Morgan, 'The Crown' had been both, lauded and criticized for its portrayal of historical events.
While Seasons 1 and 2 revolved around the initial phase of her life as a monarch, from her marriage to Prince Phillip to the crisis of the Suez Canal and the birth of Prince Edward, Seasons 3 and 4 spanned the events of 1964 to 1977, concluding with the monarch's battles with the then-Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher as well as the introduction of Camilla Shand and ended with the wedding between Diana, Princess of Wales and Prince Charles. Last year it was announced that Elizabeth Debicki would take over from Emma Corinne and play Diana for the fifth and sixth series, which will cover Diana’s death in 1997.