‘Controversial!’: The Crown’s Netflix depiction of Princess Diana could have Royals worried. This week on Palace Confidential: While viewers around the world will be eagerly anticipating the arrival of series five of The Crown, the mood behind Palace walls seems far from happy. Early indications suggest that the new episodes, covering Diana’s departure from the Royal Family and untimely death will paint the Firm in the worst possible light. It couldn’t come at a worse time for our new King, argues the Daily Mail’s Diary Editor Richard Eden.
‘It’s awful because it’s really focusing on the lowest, the worst part of his life, just at the start of what should be a happy period, really, being king, yes his mother’s died, but it’s a new start,’ he tells our royal talk show Palace Confidential. ‘Instead, it’s dragging all this up again, leading up to the tragic death of Diana so it’s going to be grim. He’s just got to grin and bear it.’ The Mail on Sunday’s Assistant Editor Kate Mansey says friends of the King are extremely unhappy about the prospect of the new storylines.
‘It was described to me by one very senior friend of the King that it’s trolling on a Hollywood budget,’ she tells the programme. ‘That’s what you’re seeing: it’s slick, it’s magnificent, but Charles is presented as a callous, horrible, feckless husband, it plays to the script to make it very dramatic that he’s the baddie, Diana’s the goodie and that’s how it was. And there’ll be some people who believe that and that’s the danger.’
Plus our panel analyse the latest interview given by Meghan Markle, the compliment that Prince Andrew will wish he hadn’t been paid and the new, surprising member of the Firm.
00:00 Coming up on tonight’s Palace Confidential
00:30 Ghislaine Maxwell endorses Prince Andrew
03:40 Megan Markle: Variety Interview and The Queen’s death
05:44 Royal Netflix DocuSeries
09:15 Meghan Markle calls Prince Harry “My Husband”
10:55 Comments!
12:05 Design contest for Royals’ clothes?
13:05 King Charles’ Coronation
15:00 The Crown Season 5: Diana & King Charles
21:15 The Crown dismissed by Royals
21:55 The Royal Family’s new representative – Andrew Parker Bowles
22:55 Foreign Royals at the congregation?
23:25 Royal property reshuffle?
25:20 A full hour broadcast?
26:00 Picture montage time!
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