The email tells customers: “Your Netflix account is for you and the people you live with – your household.”
On Tuesday night the US company confirmed it has begun emailing households that it suspects of sharing their details. “I don’t think it alone can make Charles look like a nice guy or the other way around.Netflix customers who share their passwords with friends and family must pay an extra £5 charge unless they stop. “The Crown is just one element among many that will allow the British to make up their own minds about the royal family,” he said.
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Oscar-nominated actress Helena Bonham Carter, who plays the queen’s late sister Princess Margaret, has also said the show has a “moral responsibility” to tell viewers it is a drama, not historical fact.ĭeroide said there is no way of mistaking the series and its star-studded cast for a documentary. The article received support from Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden who said he feared “a generation of viewers who did not live through these events may mistake fiction for fact”. It’s drama,” Junor added.Ī British news outlet has called on Netflix to make it clear ‘The Crown’ is a work of fiction. “There are many people in Britain and across the world who will regard ‘The Crown’ as an accurate historical record… It is not history. The couple has been largely rehabilitated in the public eye since their relatively low-key wedding in 2005. Junor said she regretted the damaging storyline about Camilla and Charles. He said the public response was due to the “emotional charge” that still surrounds events in the series and with memories still fresh of Diana’s ultimate demise. However, historian and author Loanis Deroide said that he sees the show’s portrayal of the relationship between Charles and Diana as “reasonable”. READ MORE: Royal Family hurt over Lady Diana’s portrayal in ‘The Crown’ The scene, according to Vickers, “supports the scarcely credible rumours, still fuelled by the internet, that Diana’s fatal car crash in a tunnel in Paris in 1997 was a murderous ‘hit'”. “I hope that isn’t a threat, Sir,” she replies. In one scene from the latest season, Philip tells Diana that if she breaks away from the royal family it won’t end well. Royal biographer Hugo Vickers has called it “totally one-sided” in its depiction of Charles and Diana and has also taken issue with its portrayal of the queen’s husband Prince Philip.
The show “makes Diana out to be a victim and Charles a villain” whereas “the truth is they were both victims”, she said, adding that it was also untrue that Diana’s bulimia coincided with the start of her relationship with Charles.įormer Buckingham Palace press secretary Dickie Arbiter has described the show as a “hatchet job” against Charles.
In fact, “they did not see one another for five years”, said Junor, who has written a biography of Charles. Royal author Penny Junor said the way the series shows Charles continuing his relationship with Parker-Bowles throughout his marriage was simply not true.
While writers of drama depicting real events routinely imagine scenes that could have taken place, for many critics Morgan has gone too far. This has left viewers fact-checking after watching. Despite the series’ popularity, show creator Peter Morgan has been accused of inventing storylines without warning viewers that they are in fact fiction.
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