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Prince Harry's thoughts
- In an interview with James Corden, Prince Harry said about the show: "It's fictional, but it's loosely based on the truth. Of course it's not strictly accurate, but loosely, it gives you a rough idea about what that lifestyle, what the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that."
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Season one: The smog
- In season one, Winston Churchill is inspired to take action about the terrible smog in London when his secretary is hit by a bus due to the poor visibility.
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Season one: The smog
- This incident never occurred in real life. None of Churchill’s staff were killed as a result of the smog. His government took action against it because it was a massive problem, not for personal reasons!
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Season two: Philip's infidelity
- Much of the second season is dedicated to the marriage difficulties between Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. The show strongly suggests that Philip was having affairs, although it never states it explicitly.
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Season two: Philip's infidelity
- In reality there has never been evidence that Philip was unfaithful in his marriage. There were many rumors in the media, but the alleged female participants all firmly denied the claims.
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Season three: Princess Alice
- Prince Philip's mother Princess Alice never gave an in-depth interview to a journalist named John Armstrong at The Guardian. This fictional interview allowed the show to delve deeper into Princess Alice’s incredible life story.
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Season three: Prince Charles in Wales
- The series shows how Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, spends a term in Wales and begins to connect with the Welsh people and understand their resentment.
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Season three: Prince Charles in Wales
- When he makes his investiture speech in Welsh, he appears to slip in some pro-Welsh sentiments that weren’t approved by the royal family. The real Prince Charles did make part of his investiture speech in Welsh, but he didn’t say anything particularly controversial.
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Season three: Jackie Kennedy - In the episode where John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy visit the Queen, it seems that the two women have some kind of rivalry. Jacqueline supposedly bad mouths the Queen at a party and later apologizes, claiming she was heavily medicated at the time.
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Season three: Jackie Kennedy
- There’s nothing to suggest that Jackie Kennedy was taking mood altering drugs during her trip to London, or that she criticized her hosts. In fact, some sources suggest it was the Queen who was unimpressed with the Kennedys for insisting that a twice divorced family member be invited to dinner.
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Season three: The Parker Bowles affairs
- The star siblings Prince Charles and Princess Anne did have rather tangled love lives. Princess Anne had a fling with Andrew Parker Bowles, and Charles had a well-known affair spanning decades with Andrew’s wife, Camilla Parker Bowles.
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Season three: The Parker Bowles affairs
- What the show gets wrong, most likely, is that these two love affairs occurred at the same time as each other. There’s nothing to confirm the siblings were seeing the future husband and wife at the same time, and royal biographers don’t believe this was the case.
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Season three: The farewell
- The Queen’s visit to Churchill after he had his stroke was fictional. She was indeed close to him and attended his funeral, but the idea that she would have spoken to him after his stroke is impossible as he was incoherent at that point.
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Season three: The farewell
- In the touching scene in ‘The Crown,’ the Queen gives Churchill a kiss on the forehead. This was so out of touch with reality that a royal biographer called it “pure schmaltz.”
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Season three: Princess Margaret's diplomatic mission
- Although it was a great story for TV, Princess Margaret did not play a key role in smoothing relations between Britain and US President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Season three: Princess Margaret's diplomatic mission
- The show depicts a visit Margaret did make to the US, during which she gets on like a house on fire with Johnson. It suggests that this was instrumental in resolving tensions between their countries, but in reality President Johnson and British Prime Minister Harold Wilson continued to have a strained relationship.
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Season four: The meet cute
- Princess Diana makes a very exciting entrance to the show in the fourth season. However, her entrance into Prince Charles' life wasn’t quite as whimsical as portrayed on the show.
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Season four: The meet cute
- Charles did meet Diana through her older sister Sarah, whom he dated for a short time. They are believed to have met at a country house both their families were visiting. Diana was not dressed as a mad tree, hiding behind a bouquet of flowers.
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Season four: The deer
- Diana did make a fateful trip to Balmoral to meet the royal family, and the visit was a rousing success, but she didn’t go on a deer hunt with Prince Philip. This fictional scene just allowed the writers to show Philip’s approval of Diana.
© NL Beeld
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Season four: The roller blades
- Sadly, it’s unconfirmed that Diana used to roller blade through carpeted halls of Buckingham Palace! That being said, she was a big fan of rollerblading and pop music.
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Season four: Diana and Camilla
- Diana and Camilla Parker Bowles actually knew each other before the engagement. They would have seen each other at many social occasions.
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Season four: Diana and Camilla
- They reportedly got on quite well, although naturally the relationship soured later on when Diana discovered Camilla's relationship with her husband.
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Season four: Margaret Thatcher - Another star of the fourth season is Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher was the first female prime minister of Britain, as well as one of the most controversial prime ministers in British history. The writers certainly had plenty to work with when it came to her storyline.
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Season four: Mark Thatcher and the Falklands
- The show suggests that the disappearance of Thatcher’s son occurs at the same time as the invasion of the Falkland Islands, and even that this event in her personal life influenced political decisions she made at the time.
© NL Beeld
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Season four: Mark Thatcher and the Falklands
- In reality, these two events did not occur at the same time. The one thing they did seem to get right is that Mark Thatcher was spoiled and obnoxious.
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Season four: The Queen turns against Thatcher
- The show illustrates a very real scandal in which a newspaper article was published claiming that the Queen had finally broken her vow of impartiality and expressed her displeasure with the work of the prime minister.
© NL Beeld
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Season four: The Queen turns against Thatcher
- ‘The Crown’ shows the Queen taking a strong stance that she wishes to express her discontent, instructing her press secretary to give the story to a popular newspaper. A real story to that effect was published in 1986, but it was never believed that the Queen had authorized it.
© NL Beeld
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Season four: Thatcher's last-ditch effort
- There’s also no evidence that Thatcher asked the Queen to dissolve parliament when her party began to turn against her.
© NL Beeld
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Season four: The break-in
- The break-in at Buckingham Palace is surprisingly a true story. A man named Michael Fagan did manage to break into the palace and enter the Queen’s bedroom.
© NL Beeld
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Season four: The break-in
- In the show, Fagan does this with the intent of expressing his concerns about Thatcher to the Queen. In reality, Fagan says he didn’t really have any plan when he broke in, and never had a proper conversation with the Queen. Sources: (Town and Country) (Harper's Bazaar) (Vice) (Mashable) (YouTube)
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What next? - One of the most fascinating things about 'The Crown' is seeing how the royals really lived. Follow this link to find out more about the strange rules and traditions of the British royal family.
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© NL Beeld
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Prince Harry's thoughts
- In an interview with James Corden, Prince Harry said about the show: "It's fictional, but it's loosely based on the truth. Of course it's not strictly accurate, but loosely, it gives you a rough idea about what that lifestyle, what the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that."
© Getty Images
1 / 32 Fotos
Season one: The smog
- In season one, Winston Churchill is inspired to take action about the terrible smog in London when his secretary is hit by a bus due to the poor visibility.
© NL Beeld
2 / 32 Fotos
Season one: The smog
- This incident never occurred in real life. None of Churchill’s staff were killed as a result of the smog. His government took action against it because it was a massive problem, not for personal reasons!
© Getty Images
3 / 32 Fotos
Season two: Philip's infidelity
- Much of the second season is dedicated to the marriage difficulties between Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. The show strongly suggests that Philip was having affairs, although it never states it explicitly.
© NL Beeld
4 / 32 Fotos
Season two: Philip's infidelity
- In reality there has never been evidence that Philip was unfaithful in his marriage. There were many rumors in the media, but the alleged female participants all firmly denied the claims.
© Getty Images
5 / 32 Fotos
Season three: Princess Alice
- Prince Philip's mother Princess Alice never gave an in-depth interview to a journalist named John Armstrong at The Guardian. This fictional interview allowed the show to delve deeper into Princess Alice’s incredible life story.
© Getty Images
6 / 32 Fotos
Season three: Prince Charles in Wales
- The series shows how Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, spends a term in Wales and begins to connect with the Welsh people and understand their resentment.
© NL Beeld
7 / 32 Fotos
Season three: Prince Charles in Wales
- When he makes his investiture speech in Welsh, he appears to slip in some pro-Welsh sentiments that weren’t approved by the royal family. The real Prince Charles did make part of his investiture speech in Welsh, but he didn’t say anything particularly controversial.
© NL Beeld
8 / 32 Fotos
Season three: Jackie Kennedy - In the episode where John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy visit the Queen, it seems that the two women have some kind of rivalry. Jacqueline supposedly bad mouths the Queen at a party and later apologizes, claiming she was heavily medicated at the time.
© Getty Images
9 / 32 Fotos
Season three: Jackie Kennedy
- There’s nothing to suggest that Jackie Kennedy was taking mood altering drugs during her trip to London, or that she criticized her hosts. In fact, some sources suggest it was the Queen who was unimpressed with the Kennedys for insisting that a twice divorced family member be invited to dinner.
© Getty Images
10 / 32 Fotos
Season three: The Parker Bowles affairs
- The star siblings Prince Charles and Princess Anne did have rather tangled love lives. Princess Anne had a fling with Andrew Parker Bowles, and Charles had a well-known affair spanning decades with Andrew’s wife, Camilla Parker Bowles.
© NL Beeld
11 / 32 Fotos
Season three: The Parker Bowles affairs
- What the show gets wrong, most likely, is that these two love affairs occurred at the same time as each other. There’s nothing to confirm the siblings were seeing the future husband and wife at the same time, and royal biographers don’t believe this was the case.
© Getty Images
12 / 32 Fotos
Season three: The farewell
- The Queen’s visit to Churchill after he had his stroke was fictional. She was indeed close to him and attended his funeral, but the idea that she would have spoken to him after his stroke is impossible as he was incoherent at that point.
© NL Beeld
13 / 32 Fotos
Season three: The farewell
- In the touching scene in ‘The Crown,’ the Queen gives Churchill a kiss on the forehead. This was so out of touch with reality that a royal biographer called it “pure schmaltz.”
© NL Beeld
14 / 32 Fotos
Season three: Princess Margaret's diplomatic mission
- Although it was a great story for TV, Princess Margaret did not play a key role in smoothing relations between Britain and US President Lyndon B. Johnson.
© NL Beeld
15 / 32 Fotos
Season three: Princess Margaret's diplomatic mission
- The show depicts a visit Margaret did make to the US, during which she gets on like a house on fire with Johnson. It suggests that this was instrumental in resolving tensions between their countries, but in reality President Johnson and British Prime Minister Harold Wilson continued to have a strained relationship.
© Getty Images
16 / 32 Fotos
Season four: The meet cute
- Princess Diana makes a very exciting entrance to the show in the fourth season. However, her entrance into Prince Charles' life wasn’t quite as whimsical as portrayed on the show.
© NL Beeld
17 / 32 Fotos
Season four: The meet cute
- Charles did meet Diana through her older sister Sarah, whom he dated for a short time. They are believed to have met at a country house both their families were visiting. Diana was not dressed as a mad tree, hiding behind a bouquet of flowers.
© NL Beeld
18 / 32 Fotos
Season four: The deer
- Diana did make a fateful trip to Balmoral to meet the royal family, and the visit was a rousing success, but she didn’t go on a deer hunt with Prince Philip. This fictional scene just allowed the writers to show Philip’s approval of Diana.
© NL Beeld
19 / 32 Fotos
Season four: The roller blades
- Sadly, it’s unconfirmed that Diana used to roller blade through carpeted halls of Buckingham Palace! That being said, she was a big fan of rollerblading and pop music.
© NL Beeld
20 / 32 Fotos
Season four: Diana and Camilla
- Diana and Camilla Parker Bowles actually knew each other before the engagement. They would have seen each other at many social occasions.
© NL Beeld
21 / 32 Fotos
Season four: Diana and Camilla
- They reportedly got on quite well, although naturally the relationship soured later on when Diana discovered Camilla's relationship with her husband.
© Getty Images
22 / 32 Fotos
Season four: Margaret Thatcher - Another star of the fourth season is Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher was the first female prime minister of Britain, as well as one of the most controversial prime ministers in British history. The writers certainly had plenty to work with when it came to her storyline.
© Getty Images
23 / 32 Fotos
Season four: Mark Thatcher and the Falklands
- The show suggests that the disappearance of Thatcher’s son occurs at the same time as the invasion of the Falkland Islands, and even that this event in her personal life influenced political decisions she made at the time.
© NL Beeld
24 / 32 Fotos
Season four: Mark Thatcher and the Falklands
- In reality, these two events did not occur at the same time. The one thing they did seem to get right is that Mark Thatcher was spoiled and obnoxious.
© Getty Images
25 / 32 Fotos
Season four: The Queen turns against Thatcher
- The show illustrates a very real scandal in which a newspaper article was published claiming that the Queen had finally broken her vow of impartiality and expressed her displeasure with the work of the prime minister.
© NL Beeld
26 / 32 Fotos
Season four: The Queen turns against Thatcher
- ‘The Crown’ shows the Queen taking a strong stance that she wishes to express her discontent, instructing her press secretary to give the story to a popular newspaper. A real story to that effect was published in 1986, but it was never believed that the Queen had authorized it.
© NL Beeld
27 / 32 Fotos
Season four: Thatcher's last-ditch effort
- There’s also no evidence that Thatcher asked the Queen to dissolve parliament when her party began to turn against her.
© NL Beeld
28 / 32 Fotos
Season four: The break-in
- The break-in at Buckingham Palace is surprisingly a true story. A man named Michael Fagan did manage to break into the palace and enter the Queen’s bedroom.
© NL Beeld
29 / 32 Fotos
Season four: The break-in
- In the show, Fagan does this with the intent of expressing his concerns about Thatcher to the Queen. In reality, Fagan says he didn’t really have any plan when he broke in, and never had a proper conversation with the Queen. Sources: (Town and Country) (Harper's Bazaar) (Vice) (Mashable) (YouTube)
© Getty Images
30 / 32 Fotos
What next? - One of the most fascinating things about 'The Crown' is seeing how the royals really lived. Follow this link to find out more about the strange rules and traditions of the British royal family.
© Getty Images
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Everything 'The Crown' on Netflix got wrong
The hit show takes many artistic liberties with the British royals' private lives
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Netflix's hit show 'The Crown' is a fictionalized drama based around real historical events. It follows the life of Queen Elizabeth II throughout her reign, as well as the key figures in her life. 'The Crown' delves deeply into the personal lives of the British royal family and all of the behind-the-scenes drama. While the show creators and historical consultants do their best to keep the show in line with reality, there is only so much they can discover about the inner workings of one of the most private and protected families in the world. As such, they have to take significant artistic liberties to craft a complete narrative.
This often leaves viewers wondering which parts are real and which are imagined! The British royals are not without their public scandals, so some of the most shocking moments in the show are actually confirmed real-life events. Let's take a look at some of the key inaccuracies in 'The Crown' and begin to separate fact from fiction. Click through the gallery to get started.
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