Royal experts have been clearing up fact versus fiction in The Crown ever since the hit Netflix drama debuted in 2016. Various members of the Royal Family have weighed in on the show, with a senior royal source telling the Daily Express in 2017 that Prince Edward and Duchess Sophie “love” the program and “urged” Queen Elizabeth to watch with them. Although she “really liked it,” according to the palace source, the late Queen also thought certain events were “too heavily dramatized.” It seems Prince Philip agreed about The Crown twisting the facts, going as far as contacting his lawyers over one scene.
Speaking on the Daily Mail’s “Palace Authorised” YouTube show, royal biographer Hugo Vickers revealed what Prince Philip really thought about The Crown. The death of the late Duke of Edinburgh’s sister, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, is dramatized on the show, and Vickers claimed that the way The Crown changed the narrative greatly upset Philip.
