Yes, Prince Harry Watches (and ‘Fact Checks’) 'The Crown'

11.01.2023 - 19:25 / glamour.com

, Prince Harry’s tell-all memoir about life within and beyond the palace walls, he’s provided relatable details on everything from familial strife to his affinity for Friends. (He’s “a Chandler,” by the way.) And on Tuesday night, the Duke of Sussex stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, where he revealed that he also binge-watches The Crown with Google open.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Between anecdotes about  and , Harry admitted, “Yes, I have actually watched The Crown,” clarifying, “the older stuff and the more recent stuff.” (So…all of it?) When asked if he did any “fact-checking” while watching the series, he replied, “Yes, I do, actually.

Which, by the way, is another reason why it’s so important that history has it right.”Alas, Prince Harry didn’t do any live corrections on the depiction of , and ’s infamous Tampongate phone call or .  He previously confessed to watching the Emmy-winning show about his late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, during another late-night appearance. “They don’t pretend to be news—it’s fictional, but it’s loosely based on the truth,” Harry  (who gets a shout-out in Spare’s acknowledgments section).

“It gives you a rough idea about what…the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else—what can come from that.”The estranged royal continued, “I’m way more comfortable with The Crown than I am seeing the stories written about my family, my wife, or myself. That is obviously fiction—take it how you will—but this is being reported on as fact because it’s supposedly news.