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It’s a TV drama, but \u201cThe Crown\u201d is making real-life waves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Netflix bowed this week to criticism of its majestic hit ahead of the fifth season’s scheduled release Nov. 9. After clips emerging depicting a fictional 1991 conversation between John Major and then-Prince Charles about abdication and accession, a spokesman for the former British prime minister derided the show last weekend as a \u201cbarrel-load of nonsense.\u201d Then actress Judi Dench wrote an open letter warning that \u201cthe closer the drama comes to our present times, the more freely it seems willing to blur the lines between historical accuracy and crude sensationalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Since the series began streaming in 2016, UK government officials, an actress on the show and others have called for better labeling about the fictionalized depiction of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Criticism of inaccuracies has grown as the series moved ever closer to current day. With sensitivities heightened by the recent death of the longtime queen, grumbling has intensified about both \u201cThe Crown\u201d and a not-yet-released Netflix docuseries linked to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (better known as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The trailer for the forthcoming season of \u201cThe Crown,\u201d which dropped Thursday, focuses on the marital woes of Charles and Princess Diana in the 1990s, Charles’s relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles (now his wife) and Diana’s conversations with journalists, including an infamous 1995 television interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n