Q&A

Is The Crown an accurate portrayal of the royal family?

Is The Crown an accurate portrayal of the royal family?

“The Crown is a blend of fact and fiction, inspired by true events,” royal historian Carolyn Harris, author of Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting, tells Parade.com.

Was the crown filmed in Buckingham Palace?

Buckingham Palace features heavily in The Crown, but was unavailable as an actual location for the production team. Instead, the Queen’s residence was recreated with several stately homes across the country, including this elaborate Tudor estate in Wiltshire.

What did the royal family think about the series The Crown?

And while the Queen’s communications secretary told the New York Times that the royal family has no comment on The Crown and didn’t say whether they even watch it, credible reports support that the Queen watched the first season, and though she “really liked it,” she had concerns that some of it had been “too heavily …

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Is the crown an accurate portrayal of the royal family?

“The queen realises that many who watch The Crown take it as an accurate portrayal of the royal family and she cannot change that,” a senior courtier reported to the Express. “But I can convey that she was upset by the way Prince Philip is depicted as being a father insensitive to his son’s well-being.

Do the British royals watch the Crown?

While some members of the royal family have neither confirmed nor denied watching The Crown, others have categorically said that they haven’t watched the series – and don’t intend to. These royals include Prince Philip and his grandson, Prince William.

Is ‘the Crown’ based on a true story?

Some of it is true; some of it is not. But regardless of how accurate it actually is, The Crown pulls back the curtain to study the humans behind the monarchy. Everyone in the British royal family apparently has different opinions about The Crown.

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Will there be a series 6 of the crown on Netflix?

“To be clear, series 6 will not bring us any closer to present-day — it will simply enable us to cover the same period in greater detail,” creator Peter Morgan said in a statement in July 2020. Scroll through for everything the royal family — including Harry — has said about the Netflix series: