While King Charles III has been busy managing a monarchy and a multi-billion-dollar empire, but he has also been on a secret mission to protect himself, his wife, Camilla, the Queen Consort, his sons, Prince Harry and Prince William, from what is to come in The Crown.
The fifth season of The Crown, which will be released on November 9, will follow the British royal family through the 1990s and therefore cover King Charles and Princess Diana‘s doomed marriage and affair with Camilla Parker Bowles.
The hit series will also deal with the horrific death of Princess Diana.
The streaming giant has promised to handle that scene and the depiction of the late princess sensitively and thoughtfully.
According to royal expert and author Katie Nicholl, this season of the show will be difficult for everyone to watch, but it will hit Prince William and Prince Harry the hardest because they have to relive the death of their beloved mother all over again.
In a sit-down with Entertainment Tonight, the royal observer stated: “I think this series is going to be quite an uncomfortable viewing, not just for [Queen Consort] Camilla and [King] Charles but also for William and Harry. Scenes leading up to their mother’s death are going to be very, very uncomfortable for them.”
She went on to say that she believes that some of the scenes will be triggers for the brothers who had to deal with this unbearable pain in the public eye when they were young boys.
The commentator stated: “This is a period that they had to live out so publicly. We heard Harry talk about the very real impact it’s had on his life, and William as well. So, for this to sort of be revisited, even if it’s done tastefully […] for this to be brought up all over again is incredibly hard for William and Harry.”
The writer suggested that the heir to the throne will endure some uncomfortable moments and added: “The events, yes, are 25 years old, but they still feel very current because they’re constantly still making headlines — largely through films and TV series like this. Those early [seasons] felt like there was enough history, felt like there was enough distance. But this just feels uncomfortably close.”
King Charles, who vowed to protect his family, the monarchy, and its reputation, has been on a secret and brutal campaign to force Netflix to be sensitive with the storylines.
Buckingham Palace has also demanded that the heads of the series let their millions of viewers know that it is all fiction, not an authentic documentary about the good, the bad, and the very ugly that went on in the Palace walls.
King Charles’s allies, former British Prime Minister John Major and acting royalty and legendary actress Judi Dench, who had ties to the late Queen Elizabeth II and is close to Queen Consort Camilla, slammed the streaming giant for confusing truth with fiction.
Dench wrote an open letter in The Times saying: “Sir John Major is not alone in his concerns that the latest series of The Crown will present an inaccurate and hurtful account of history,” Dench wrote. “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.”
Netflix has caved and added a disclaimer to its hit series. The show now appears on Netflix’s website with the following warning: “Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization tells the story of Queen Elizabeth II and the political and personal events that shaped her reign.”
King Charles is relentless when it comes to protecting the monarchy.
