Netflix has released a statement defending the upcoming series of The Crown after the show was criticised as “damaging and malicious.”
The fifth and penultimate season of the streaming giant’s hit drama will be released in November, and is expected to feature scenes slammed by a former Prime Minister as “nonsense.” The new series will reportedly show the King – then the Prince of Wales – hosting a secret meeting with Sir John Major at Highgrove in 1991 while plotting to oust the Queen.
Sir John labelled the scenes as “malicious nonsense,” while a spokesman for the former PM – to be played by Jonny Lee Miller in the series – previously told The Times that if scenes depicting the meeting are broadcast “they should be seen as nothing other than damaging and malicious fiction”.
