Former British PM John Main Blasts ‘The Crown’ For Depicting Charles Making an attempt To Oust The Queen: ‘Malicious Fiction’

The royal household is bracing for the fifth season of “The Crown”, because the upcoming season covers arguably probably the most tumultuous interval within the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II: the messy, contentious divorce of Charles and Diana.

The Each day Mail studies {that a} explicit scene within the upcoming season is inflicting a lot consternation in Buckingham Palace, wherein Charles (performed by Dominic West) plots to oust the Queen (Imelda Staunton) by lobbying then-Prime Minister John Main (Jonny Lee Miller) to pressure his mom’s abdication so he can develop into king.

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In response to the Mail, royal sources are accusing “The Crown” of concocting a “malicious smear” of King Charles that’s “false, unfair and deeply wounding,” whereas Sir Malcom Rifkind, who served as international Secretary below Main, slammed the episode as “pure fantasy.”

Main, who succeeded Margaret Thatcher and served as PM from 1990 till 1997, made the uncommon transfer of issuing a livid assertion insisting the scene by no means occurred, blasting the storyline as “damaging and malicious fiction” and “a barrel load of nonsense.”

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Learn Main’s assertion in its entirety beneath:

Sir John has not co-operated in any means with ‘The Crown’. Nor has he ever been approached by them to fact-check any script materials on this or some other sequence.

As you’ll know, discussions between the Monarch and Prime Minister are fully non-public and — for Sir John — will all the time stay so. However not one of many scenes you depict are correct in any means by any means. They’re fiction, pure and easy.

There was by no means any dialogue between Sir John and the then Prince of Wales about any potential abdication of the late Queen Elizabeth II — nor was such an unbelievable and improper topic ever raised by the then Prince of Wales (or Sir John).

Neither Sir John nor Dame Norma have mentioned the Monarchy remotely in these phrases. [What you report as depicted in the script] has by no means been their view, by no means could be their view, and by no means will probably be their view.

Thus, if the scenes you describe are broadcast, they need to be seen as nothing aside from damaging and malicious fiction. A barrel load of nonsense peddled for no different cause than to supply most — and completely false — dramatic influence.

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The fifth season of “The Crown” debuts on Wednesday, Nov. 9.