Netflix Clarifies ‘The Crown’ is a ‘Fictional Dramatization’

Netflix has clarified “The Crown” is a fictional dramatization for viewers by including a logline to its YouTube trailer for Season 5, which is about to launch on Nov. 9.

Within the description for the trailer, posted by the official Netflix account, the logline reads: “Impressed by actual occasions, this fictional dramatisation tells the story of Queen Elizabeth II and the political and private occasions that formed her reign.”

A spokesperson for Netflix advised Selection: “‘The Crown’ has all the time been introduced as a drama based mostly on historic occasions. Collection 5 is a fictional dramatization, imagining what might have occurred behind closed doorways throughout a big decade for the Royal Household – one which has already been scrutinised and nicely documented by journalists, biographers and historians.”

The addition of the logline follows a lot dialogue within the U.Ok. over whether or not viewers will understand occasions in “The Crown” as absolute re-enactions of actual occasions. The British press has reported that sources inside Buckingham Palace are significantly apprehensive concerning the present’s depiction of King Charles’ affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles whereas married to Diana, Princess of Wales, particularly given he has simply acceded to the throne.

Following Diana’s loss of life (which is about to be depicted within the sixth and last season of the sequence), Charles married Camilla. When he acceded to the throne final month, following the loss of life of his mom Queen Elizabeth II, she grew to become Queen Consort.

Earlier this week Judi Dench wrote to The Occasions of London to complain that “The Crown” ought to carry a disclaimer initially of every episode, calling the sequence “cruelly unjust” to the Royal Household.