Keeping this one to himself. Dominic West is friends with Prince Harry, but he decided against asking his pal for advice about playing King Charles III on The Crown.
23.10.2022 - 17:29 / deadline.com
Another royal intimate has added their voice to those criticising The Crown, ahead of the fifth season’s arrival next week on Netflix.
The Times quotes the unnamed female friend of the royal family, who attended the Queen’s private committal service at Windsor last month, as slamming the streamer’s editorial decisions, saying they are “vilifying the royal family. It is vicious. It’s as if they’re trying to destroy the royal family.”
Of Prince Harry’s current big-budget partnership with Netflix, which will see the eventual release of his fly-on-the-wall documentary and other projects, the woman told The Times that the Duke was in “the most invidious position.”
She added: “If I had my family being vilified like that, I wouldn’t take a penny [from Netflix].”
This follows a catalogue of critics in the lead-up to the new series, which features a catalogue of unedifying events in the lives of the then Prince and Princess of Wales in the mid-1990s, as their marriage founded amid affairs on both sides, and mutual mud-slinging in the national press. It is clearly not ideal timing for these events to re-enter the public consciousness as King Charles begins to set out stall for his reign, and look ahead to next year’s Coronation.
Sir John Major, who was the UK prime minister at the time of Charles and Diana’s divorce in the mid-1990s, has publicly dismissed one of the new season’s plot points – that Charles was angling for his mother Queen Elizabeth II to abdicate in his favour – and called the show “damaging and malicious fiction” and “a barrel-load of nonsense peddled for no other reason than to provide maximum, and entirely false, dramatic impact.”
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Keeping this one to himself. Dominic West is friends with Prince Harry, but he decided against asking his pal for advice about playing King Charles III on The Crown.
Perhaps this won’t be a smear campaign against the royal family after all?
Making things worse? King Charles III‘s decision to ban Prince Harry from wearing his military uniform to Queen Elizabeth II‘s funeral may have harmed their relationship even more, according to a royal expert.
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.
Uh, oh. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s docuseries hasn’t even come out yet and she’s already blasting it! This isn’t good!
A new perspective. Meghan Markle opened up about the process of creating her upcoming Netflix documentary with husband Prince Harry, hinting that it wasn’t exactly what the pair expected.
An olive branch of their own? Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are changing “direction” when it comes to how King Charles III will be portrayed in their upcoming projects, a source exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly.
Netflix has reportedly 'postponed' Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's documentary until next year following backlash to The Crown Season 5.
Netflix has made a change to their release schedule regarding Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s documentary series.
Uhh, this isn’t going to be good for optics!
video call released on Monday. The Prince of Sussex, 38, chatted to the winners, apologizing for not being able to attend the event for the charity, following the death of his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II.The Prince was a doting dad in the calls, gushing about his son Archie, 3, being “very busy” and daughter Lilibet, 1, “finding her voice.”Harry — who has been a patron of the UK charity for seriously ill children and their families since 2007 — first spoke with four-year-old Henry Waines and his parents, bonding with the tot over their shared first name.“My name is Henry.
Prince Harry is reportedly writing a last-minute chapter on the Queen's funeral for his new memoir, which is supposedly being released before the end of the year. Royal author Jeffrey Archer, who was friends with the late Princess Diana, has said that Harry, 38, will be including some extra material in his book, which will cover his grandmother's death and her funeral. Jeffrey spoke of his concerns that the book will further damage the already-strained relations between Harry, his wife Meghan Markle, 41, and the rest of the Royal Family.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are said to be at loggerheads with Netflix over their documentary series – with rumours that bosses are refusing their requests to "tone down" some of its content. Sources claim Prince Harry and wife Meghan had "second thoughts" about the show following the Queen’s death and are now "panicked".The series, described as a revealing "at home with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex-style" show, has been in production for almost a year with them letting cameras follow them around.
The royal family are “hugely nervous” over the release of Prince Harry’s upcoming memoir, according to royal expert Tom Bower. He says that the family are particularly nervous about the “time bomb” nature of the upcoming tell-all book penned by the Duke of Sussex. Despite rumours that Prince Harry “desperately” wants to make changes to his memoir following the death of his grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, Tom says it may be too late to do so.
The royal family is not ready for Prince Harry’s upcoming memoir!