Prince Philip was allegedly wanting into suing Netflix over a scene in “The Crown” season 2.
Royal historian Hugo Vickers advised The Sunday Occasions that Philip wasn’t pleased with a false storyline surrounding the demise of his sister Princess Cecilie.
She handed away in a aircraft crash in 1937 at age simply 26 alongside her new child child, husband and two younger sons.
Within the second season of the present, that aired in 2017, Cecilie had been flying from Germany to London to assist her then-16-year-old brother Philip, who was in bother at college.
In keeping with the New York Publish, Philip’s father, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, blamed Philip for the deaths at her funeral on the present.
Prince Andrew mentioned as they laid Cecilie to relaxation in season 2, “I’m stunned he dare present himself right here. Had it not been for Philip and his indiscipline she would by no means have taken that flight. It’s true, isn’t it boy? You’re the rationale we’re all right here burying my favorite little one. Get him out of right here.”
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“I do know Prince Philip consulted his lawyer about it, to ask ‘What can I do about it?’” Vickers advised The Sunday Occasions.
“He was very upset about the best way that was portrayed. He was human. He may very well be damage like anyone else.”
The late royal died on April 9, 2021 at age 99.
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“The Crown” season 5 not too long ago premiered on Netflix after sparking backlash from a number of folks, together with Judi Dench and former British PM John Main.
Final month, Netflix added a “fictional dramatization” disclaimer to the trailer after weeks of criticism.
The caption learn, “Impressed by actual occasions, this fictional dramatization tells the story of Queen Elizabeth II and the political and private occasions that formed her reign.”
