This week, Dame Judi dench accused the Netflix drama“The Crown” has been accused of “crude sensalism” and “cruelly injust” in its portrayal of the British royals.
The actress who has played the role of Queen Elizabeth IIOn screen, she was named a dame by the late monarch. In 1988, the monarch called the show “brilliant” and wrote to the Times of London arguing that the drama needed a disclaimer at its beginning to emphasize that the show’s depictions of royal history were fictional.
Dench was particularly upset by the plotline in the latest season, which depicts the 1990s and where then-Prince Charles attempts to force the queen into abdicating.
She said thatThe latest season of the show is an “inaccurate and hurtful account of history… Indeed, the closer the drama comes to our present times, the more freely it seems willing to blur the lines between historical accuracy and crude sensationalism.”
Judi Dench attends “Allelujah”, the European Premiere, during the 66th BFI London Film Festival at Southbank Centre, October 9, 2022 in London.
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She continued, “While many will recognise The Crown for the brilliant but fictionalised account of events that it is, I fear that a significant number of viewers, particularly overseas, may take its version of history as being wholly true. Given some of the wounding suggestions apparently contained in the new series — that King Charles plotted for his mother to abdicate, for example, or once suggested his mother’s parenting was so deficient that she might have deserved a jail sentence — this is both cruelly unjust to the individuals and damaging to the institution they represent.”
She mentioned the recent denial by Former British Prime Minister John Major that Charles asked him to force the queen out as depicted on the show.
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Season 5 of “The Crown” features Dominic West as Prince Charles and Emerald Fennell as Camilla Parker Bowles.
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The actress from “James Bond”, emphasized her belief in artistic freedom, but stated that “this cannot be ignored.” Despite this week stating publicly that The Crown has always been a ‘fictionalised drama’ the programme makers have resisted all calls for them to carry a disclaimer at the start of each episode.”
She also invoked the queen’s death on Sept. 8. “The time has come for Netflix to reconsider — for the sake of a family and a nation so recently bereaved, as a mark of respect to a sovereign who served her people so dutifully for 70 years, and to preserve its reputation in the eyes of its British subscribers.”
After an official council meeting in Dunfermline Fife, King Charles III greets all members of the public.
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“The Crown,” now in its fifth season, first depicted the queen’s youth before she came to the throne and has since moved on to the 1990s. The filmmakers have vowed to always stay at least 20 years in the past on the show, meaning there won’t be any plots involving Meghan MarkleSoon.
