Why does the depiction of the Royal Family in The Crown matter? Surely everyone knows it’s just fiction: another TV costume drama by Netflix, that California-based ‘dream factory’ that pumps out £12 billion worth of content each year. But therein lies the brilliance – and the real-life cruelty – of …
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Friends of Prince Charles launched a blistering attack on The Crown last night, accusing producers of the hit Netflix drama of ‘trolling on a Hollywood budget’. Some of the Prince’s closest confidantes have accused the streaming giant of exploiting the Royal Family’s pain for financial gain and raged that ‘fiction …
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Like the previous three series of The Crown, the latest is riddled with factual errors. Here, Royal historian Ian Lloyd highlights some of the worst examples. DIANA AND CAMILLA’S LUNCH ‘DISASTER’ TV VERSION The two women in Charles’s life are shown meeting for lunch at the London restaurant Menage a …
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China’s furious war of words with East End mayor over proposed new embassy in London could derail plans for Britain’s diplomatic mission in Beijing China’s Ambassador to the UK wrote to the mayor of Tower Hamlets last month He referred to local opposition over ‘Xinjiang and Hong Kong related issues’ …
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Princess Diana’s friend has claimed the fake evidence used to secure her Panorama interview probably kick-started events that ended in her death. Ex-Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown said Martin Bashir’s doctored bank statements saw the Royal dismiss her protection which could have stopped her Paris car crash. Ms Brown, who …
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Prince Andrew has been pictured today leaving Windsor Castle, the day after sources told the Daily Mail that he would never return to official duties and faces a future in the royal wilderness. The Queen’s second son stepped back from official engagements a year ago in the wake of his disastrous BBC …
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The Queen and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge led the royal birthday tributes to Prince Charles today as he turned 72. The Royal Family shared an adorable throwback photo of the Prince of Wales perched on his mother’s knee as a baby alongside a smiling snap of the pair …
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Princess Diana was on the ‘best terms she’d ever been’ with Prince Charles before she died – and would have gone back to him ‘in a heartbeat’ if he’d wanted her, a royal biographer has claimed. The late Princess of Wales, who died in a car accident in Paris in …
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Kate DIDN’T target William because he was royal – and pined for her first love who broke her heart by ‘blowing hot and cold’, reveals a school friend Claims Kate Middleton wanted to be William’s bride from early age were denied Marlborough College classmate said Kate hated idea of being …
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Jose Mourinho given suspended one-match European ban and Tottenham fined £23,000 after the Portuguese manager is deemed responsible for late kick-off in Europa League match with Royal Antwerp in October Tottenham were late for their Europa League match against Royal Antwerp Manager Jose Mourinho has been deemed responsible for the …
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