The broadcaster John Sergeant has said the
Netflix drama is damaging to the Windsors. Far from it
The broadcaster John Sergeant thinks the Netflix drama The Crown is “dangerous … I think we’re now asking too high a price from the Royals,” he told the Radio Times. Obviously I want to nitpick and say, you don’t ask a high price, you pay it, and actually, we don’t ask anything of them at all, except that they don’t traduce all values of decency with their associations. But parking that, has he got a point? Is it unfair to dramatise them?
It is possible to read too much constitutional significance into TV, which is to say, any at all: The Crown has only ever pretended to be guided by historical atmospherics, rather than, say, bound to represent history accurately. So what could the third season rationally convey about the real Royal family?