The fifth season of the Netflix series “The Crown” starts on November 9th. Even before the broadcast, the new episodes, which take place in the 1990s, are causing quite a stir. The thematic focus this time is the failed marriage of Princess Diana and King Charles III, then Prince Charles. The fact that the creators of “The Crown” recreate, among other things, Princess Diana’s BBC interview from 1995, in which she spoke about her “marriage of three”, should extremely upset the royal family.
There is also a lack of understanding because the series is intended to imply that Charles spoke to the British Prime Minister at the time, John Major, about the Queen’s abdication. That was “malicious nonsense,” Major said. Prince Philip’s alleged affair with his longtime girlfriend Penny Knatchbull is also the subject of the new “The Crown” episodes, British media reported. At the latest when it became known that the series would also show the last hours before Princess Diana died in an accident, critics complained that a limit had now been crossed.
Lead actress Elizabeth Debicki has now commented on the massive criticism of the series in an interview with the British magazine “Radio Times”. She respects people’s points of view, said the 32-year-old, who plays Princess Diana in the new season. But it’s time to stop talking about individual storylines and just move on.
Debicki refers to the disclaimer that Netflix added after criticism from Oscar winner Judi Dench. A few weeks ago, the 87-year-old wrote an open letter to the newspaper “The Times”, in which she called the portrayal of the royal family “cruelly unfair”. Dench requested that the streaming provider add an explanation to each episode that makes it clear that it is a fictionalized account of historical events.
In fact, YouTube now says under the Season 5 trailer: “Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization tells the story of Queen Elizabeth II and the political and personal events that shaped her reign.”
Actress Debicki said of the clue, “If that’s helpful to certain people, then so be it. Now the conversation can be brought back to the creative endeavor of the show. I always knew you never know what’s behind closed doors doors and that an author interprets what might have happened.”
The Australian thinks the series leaves “a huge amount of room for interpretation”, depending on the point of view you look at “The Crown”. “That’s good drama to me.” Instead of judging in advance, everyone should form their own opinion when the new episodes are shown on Netflix.
Source: “Daily Mail”, “BBC”
