UK Culture Secretary Asks Netflix to Label ‘The Crown’ as Fiction

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The UK government has continued to apply pressure to Netflix to carry a disclaimer on The Crown making clear the series is dramatized — even though the U.S. streaming giant has already knocked back the request.

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The Crown” that states it is a work of fiction.The drama series faced calls from key British figures to make it as abundantly clear as possible to viewers that the events depicted in the show are fictional but based on actual historical events.

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The U.K. culture secretary Oliver Dowden has waded into a growing debate surrounding season four of Netflix's hit royal drama The Crown.

on Netflix has upset some viewers, even those in leadership positions in the United Kingdom. The U.K.'s Culture Secretary, Oliver Dowden, spoke to the over the weekend about the dangers of not informing viewers of the fictional nature of the royal family drama. «It's a beautifully produced work of fiction, so as with other TV productions, Netflix should be very clear at the beginning it is just that,» he notes.

told The Mail on Sunday that he will write to the streaming giant amid mounting concerns that the royal family’s reputation is being soiled by fictionalized scenes on the show.“It’s a beautifully produced work of fiction, so as with other TV productions, Netflix should be very clear at the beginning it is just that,” the minister told the UK paper.“Without this, I fear a generation of viewers who did not live through these events may mistake fiction for fact,” he cautioned.Princess Diana’s

Given that “The Crown” offers a dramatized depiction of real events involving Britain’s royal family, viewers may not realize that what they’re watching is far less real than they might believe.

By this point, viewers of Netflix’s “The Crown” have been inundated with warnings from royal commentators and historians over how the show is a very dramatized version of the British Royal Family and not to be taken as fact.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle signed their massive production deal with Netflix, it answered a few questions (like "what will Harry and Meghan do with their time following their royal exit?" and "how will the Sussexes achieve the financial independence from the rest of the royal they announced they wanted?"), but it raised a lot more.

The Crown season 4 premiered on Netflix this week to both rave reviews and its fair share of controversy in regard to its dubious interpretations of history. Yet inaccuracies aside, this is nothing short of a delicious romp through the political, social and royal turmoil of 1980s Britain, delivered with a camp sense of pomp and ceremony.Directed by Benjamin Caron, this season packs in more scandal than both the Bold And The Beautiful and Days Of Our Lives combined.

Princess Diana’s brother, Earl Charles Spencer, is the lastest person to warn people that “The Crown” is “fiction.”

But despite being grateful to be cast in the iconic role, the 24-year-old has now admitted she would feel awkward confronting Diana’s children, Princes William and Harry.

Fans all over the world are now seeing Emma Corrin dazzle as Lady Diana Spencer (a.k.a. Princess Diana) on season 4 of “The Crown”, but in real life, the 24-year-old British actress also has some glamorous connections. Corrin appeared on Tuesday’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” where she revealed that singer Harry Styles has close ties to her dog, whose name just happens to be Spencer.