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 Day by day Mail studies {that a} explicit scene within the upcoming season is inflicting a lot consternation in Buckingham Palace, during which 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 turn into king.
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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 “malicious fiction” and “a barrel load of nonsense.”
In the meantime, 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 overseas Secretary below Main, slammed the episode as “pure fantasy.”
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Learn Main’s assertion in its entirety beneath:
Sir John has not co-operated in any approach with The Crown. Nor has he ever been approached by them to fact-check any script materials on this or another collection.
As you’ll know, discussions between the Monarch and Prime Minister are totally personal and — for Sir John — will at all times stay so. However not one of many scenes you depict are correct in any approach in anyway. They’re fiction, pure and easy.
There was by no means any dialogue between Sir John and the then Prince of Wales about any attainable 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 can be their view, and by no means shall 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 fully false — dramatic affect.
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The fifth season of “The Crown” debuts on Wednesday, Nov. 9.