Netflix unveiled this Thursday the official trailer for the highly anticipated fifth season of The Crown. But the series, which will be available on November 9, is already creating controversy.
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The Crown follows the reign of Queen Elizabeth II since her accession to the throne of England. This new season takes place during the 1990s and early 2000s, when things are no longer going well between Charles and Diana and the role of monarchy is questioned by the British, against the backdrop of the debacle of the Soviet Union.
But a few weeks after the death of the Queen and the enthronement of Charles III, voices are worried in Great Britain about the representation of the monarchy which will be given. Former British Prime Minister John Major, who was in power from 1990 to 1997, accused The Crown to be nothing more than a “harmful fiction”. On Wednesday, it was the turn of the great British actress Judi Dench, who claimed that The Crown was “grossly unfair” to the royal family. She claimed in an open letter to the TimesUK for Netflix to make it clear in a disclaimer, which would be posted before each episode, that the story had been fictionalized.
The creator of The Crown, Peter Morgan, responded to these criticisms on Thursday. “We all have to accept that the 1990s were difficult for the royal family, and that it will bring back painful memories in the memory of King Charles, he said in an interview with the variety. But that doesn’t mean, in hindsight, that history will be unkind to him or the monarchy. The series is definitely not. I have great compassion for a man in such a position. »
A few actors have also come to the defense of the series, including Elizabeth Debicki, who plays Diana, and who claimed that the death of the princess had been treated with “sensitivity, truth and nuance”.
The fifth season of The Crown stars, among others, Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II and Dominic West as Prince Charles.