Netflix's The Crown under fire again as Judi Dench slams 'crude and damaging' Royal drama

UK former premier Tony Blair has added his voice to those saying The Crown is using the fifth season to present events in the 1990s on screen as real, when in fact they have been invented. 

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

Close friends of the late Princess Diana have slammed The Crown as the Netflix show plans to depict the moments leading up to her death.

Dame Judi Dench is facing a mouse infestation in her historic £8million mansion in Surrey.

Netflix has resumed production for season six of acclaimed royal drama The Crown and sources say the platform recreated the death of Princess Diana over the weekend

Another royal intimate has added their voice to those criticising The Crown, ahead of the fifth season’s arrival next week on Netflix.

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

The latest season of The Crown isn’t even out yet and it’s already the center of major controversy!

Strong words. Judi Dench slammed Netflix’s “completely inaccurate” portrayal of the royal family in the upcoming season of The Crown.

Dame Judi Dench is accusing ‘The Crown’ of being “cruelly unjust” to the Royal Family. The Oscar winner, 87, who was made a Companion of Honour in 2005 and played Queen Victoria in the films ‘Mrs Brown’ and ‘Victoria and Abdul’, also accused the Netflix show of “sensationalism” and said it should open with a warning it is “fictionalised drama” and not historical fact. She said in a letter to The Times newspaper on Wednesday (19.

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.

Judi Dench might be a Dame, but she apparently isn’t a big fan of The Crown.

and are embarking on non-fiction project, but that doesn't mean the production is drama free.    will be the primary subjects of a docuseries directed by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus.

Netflix has reportedly 'postponed' Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's documentary until next year following backlash to The Crown Season 5.

Royal fans will have to wait a little longer to see The Sussexes’ new documentary.

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.