The popular TV series about the
Royal Family is reality hijacked as propaganda, and a cowardly abuse of artistic licence
When you turn on your television tonight, imagine seeing the news acted rather than read. Someone looking like
Boris Johnson furiously screaming at his fiancee, Carrie Symonds; Dominic Cummings vomiting into a can; and the
Queen told to piss off. Afterwards the
BBC flashes up a statement saying all this was “based on true events”, and hoping we enjoyed it.
The royal family series The Crown has garnered plaudits for its acting and brickbats for its inaccuracies, almost all of them derogatory towards living or recently dead individuals. The new series, on
Netflix, appears to have upped the fabrication and the offence. The scriptwriter, Peter Morgan, admits: “Sometimes you have to forsake accuracy, but you must never forsake truth.”