British society are clutching their pearls over what they see as The Crown misleading everyone about the royal family.
when he had to admit to a four-year extramarital affair while serving as Treasury Chief Whip. Keep calm and carry on with a backbencher, is it?
All of which is in no way to suggest that I see no problem with the dramatisation of real-life events without subjects’ consent, but rather that this is an issue that’s in no way specific to. It’s difficult to imagine His Majesty’s apologists tearing their plugs out over “smears” against anyone who lives more than a mile from Larry the cat , people who lack the ways and means to defend themselves, and whose storylines the general public is infinitely less interested in fact-checking.
, when the Windsors came across in a far more positive light . And if the powers that be are really so concerned that younger generations might “mistake fiction for fact” while watching Netflix, how about sorting out the disastrous education budget? In the meantime, perhaps they can comfort themselves with the fact that, however badly the Windsors come across in, the Conservatives’ lunacy has made them seem like a beacon of sanity by comparison.