Netflix has reportedly refused to add a factual disclaimer to The Crown after Dame Judi Dench slammed the show for its 'crude sensationalism'.
The iconic actress, 87, called for a disclaimer to be added to each episode, saying the "fictionalised drama" poses a risk because "a significant number of viewers" will take its events as historical truth.
Dame Judi wasn't the only person who slammed the popular series as ex-Prime Minister Sir John Major called the scenes of Prince Charles trying to oust the Queen 'a barrel load of nonsense.'
Yesterday, a new trailer for the upcoming series of The Crown dropped and showed the dramatised Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wale s.
A source told The Telegraph earlier this month Prince Williams feels The Crown are using the Martin Bashir interview and the “dramatisation of it for financial gain”.
However, only snippets of the interview will be shown.
Insiders told The Sun Netflix 'decided showing anything extensive could provoke a backlash.'
The streaming platform denied the claims.
They said the series' title page describes it as fictionalised drama but added they will not be placing warnings to individual episodes.
A spokeswoman for Netflix said: “The episodes that dramatise events surrounding the Panorama interview remain unchanged.”
Dame Judi recently wrote that "wounding suggestions apparently contained in the new series" will prove "damaging" to the monarchy and cannot go unchallenged.
"Sir John Major is not alone in his concerns that the latest series of The Crown will present an inaccurate and hurtful account of history (News, Oct 17)," Dame Judi wrote in a letter to The Times .
"Indeed, the closer the drama comes to our present times, the more freely it seems willing to blur the lines between historical accuracy and crude sensationalism.
"While many will recognise The Crown for the brilliant but fictionalised account of events that it is, I fear that a significant number of viewers, particularly overseas, may take its version of history as being wholly true."
The Crown previously had to defend themselves after receiving initial backlash from John Major.
A spokeswoman for The Crown said: “The Crown has always been presented as a drama based on historical events.
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“Series five is a fictional dramatisation, imagining what could have happened behind closed doors during a significant decade for the royal family – one that has already been scrutinised and well-documented by journalists, biographers and historians.”
The programme’s creator, Peter Morgan, also defended the forthcoming series in an interview with US publication Entertainment Weekly.
“I think we must all accept that the 1990s was a difficult time for the royal family, and King Charles will almost certainly have some painful memories of that period,” he said.
“But that doesn’t mean that, with the benefit of hindsight, history will be unkind to him, or the monarchy. The show certainly isn’t.”
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