Judi Dench Asks Netflix to Add a Disclaimer to ‘Inaccurate’ Season 5 of ‘The Crown’: ‘Cruelly Unjust’

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SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of the fifth season of The Crown, which debuts all 10-episodes on Netflix on November 9

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Netflix have added an accuracy disclaimer for The Crown after Dame Judi Dench slammed the show as "crude sensationalism".

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Dame Judi Dench has called for a disclaimer to be added to each episode of The Crown, saying the hit Netflix drama has begun to verge on “crude sensationalism”.The screen and stage veteran said despite previous statements by the streaming giant that the show is a “fictionalised drama”, there was a risk that “a significant number of viewers” would take its events as historical truth. She added that “wounding suggestions apparently contained in the new series” would prove “damaging” to the monarchy and could not go unchallenged.

Judi Dench wrote in an open letter published Wednesday in of London that  ought to have a «fictionalised drama» disclaimer before the start of every episode as the series inches closer «to our present times.»The 87-year-old actress said that «no one is a greater believer in artistic freedom» than her but «this cannot go unchallenged.» She insists that «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.»Dench — who portrayed Queen Victoria in the 1997 film and 2017's, as well as Queen Elizabeth in 1998's — also wrote that «while many will recognise for the brilliant but fictionalized 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.»She added that the «sensationalism» — that King Charles «plotted for his mother to abdicate, for example, or once suggested his mother’s parenting was so deficient that she might have deserved a jail sentence» -- is «cruelly unjust to the individuals and damaging to the institution they represent.» Dench was referring to former U.K. Prime Minister John Major (1990-1997), who responded over the weekend to rumors in the U.K. media that one of the plotlines in season 5 includes Prince Charles suggesting in 1991 he wanted Major's support to dethrone his mother.

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received backlash from an important figure.Deadline reported Monday that the documentary was supposed to stream on Netflix in December, following the return on “The Crown” on Nov. 9.But last week, former UK Prime Minister John Major criticized the show’s upcoming Season 5, which will revolve around the exploits of the royal family over the course of the 1990s.An upcoming episode titled “Queen Victoria Syndrome” includes a plotline set in 1991 that suggests Prince Charles — now King Charles III — allegedly lobbied for Major to force Queen Elizabeth II to abdicate so that he could take over the throne.“They are fiction, pure and simple,” Major told Daily Mail in October of the show’s incendiary scenes, adding that no such meeting ever took place in real life.“They’re rattled at Netflix, and they blinked first and decided to postpone the documentary,” a source told Deadline.“The Crown” has defended itself against claims of historical inaccuracy, insisting that it has always “been presented as a drama based on historical events.”Netflix has stated that “there’s never been any documentary from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex confirmed” on the streamer.