A lifelong buddy of the Queen is dismissing “The Crown” as “full fantasy.”
Woman Anne Glenconner, who was a Maid of Honour on the Queen’s coronation and one among Princess Margaret’s closest pals, appeared on BBC Radio 4 “Ladies’s Hour”, the place she shared her low opinion of the Netflix hit.
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“The difficulty is that folks, particularly in America, consider it utterly,” she mentioned, as reported by the Day by day Mail. “It’s so irritating. I don’t watch ‘The Crown’ now as a result of it simply makes me so offended. And it’s so unfair on members of the royal household.”
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Woman Anne was appointed Woman in Ready to Princess Margaret in 1971, a job she held till the royal’s dying in 2002, writing about her experiences within the 2020 memoir
Whereas she admitted that she’d loved the sequence’ early episodes, she felt that the present “by some means went ‘terribly off-piste” alongside the best way.
In actual fact, she has the distinctive expertise of being portrayed on the sequence, in an episode during which Princess Margaret comes to go to Woman Anne and her husband Colin Tennant, third Baron Glenconner, at their dwelling on the Caribbean island of Mustique, which he bought in 1958.
“I do know from my very own expertise, being in ‘The Crown’, it wasn’t true in any respect,” she mentioned, pointing to at least one scene particularly, which made it appear as if she was “pimping” for the princess throughout a pool celebration.
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“After all that didn’t occur,” she insisted. “I don’t know why that they had to try this. The true factor concerning the royal household is so fascinating. They don’t must embroider it.”
She known as out one other storyline within the present, within the second season, that portrayed the Duke of Edinburgh being liable for his sister boarding a aircraft that in the end crashed, taking her life.
“That was utterly unfaithful and I believe to say one thing like that about folks is extremely hurting,” she mentioned. “No person needs to have their relations trashed like that.”
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Woman Anne recalled showing on “The Graham Norton Present” alongside Helena Bonham Carter, and spoke along with her about her portrayal of Margaret.
“Afterwards, I mentioned to her, ‘A bit disappointing, wasn’t it?’ And he or she replied, ‘Sure, however I’m an actress, I’ve to do what’s written,’” she mentioned.
Responding to accusations that “The Crown” took liberties with historic accuracy, a Netflix spokesperson beforehand issued an announcement to remind viewers that the fifth season is “a fictional dramatization, imagining what might have occurred behind closed doorways throughout a big decade for the royal household — one which has already been scrutinized and properly documented by journalists, biographers and historians.”
