Despite many devoted fans of The Crown telling me the current season is actually the worst season of the show, it’s by far the most popular, likely because it has resurfaced all of the royal scandals off the not-so-distant past. Naturally, the royal family and their associates have been less than thrilled to see Netflix undo “years and years of careful Palace work to rehabilitate the reputations of Charles, Camilla, and the institution itself,” as Jezebel’s Kelly Faircloth recently put it, and are now locked in a battle of wills with the streaming platform to make it clear that the show is fictional.
“We have always presented The Crown as a drama, and we have every confidence our members understand it’s a work of fiction that’s broadly based on historical events,” a Netflix spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter. “As a result we have no plans—and see no need—to add a disclaimer.”
The most recent calls for such a disclaimer came from UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden, who said in an interview with The Mail on Sunday that he feared “a generation of viewers who did not live through these events may mistake fiction for fact.”
But he’s hardly the only one to speak out against the show’s portrayal of the royal family. Last month, “palace sources” told the Daily Mail they thought it irresponsible for Netflix not to warn viewers that historical events had been dramatized, and that Prince William in particular was unhappy with the season.
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