Josh O'Connor may be Emmy-nominated for his portrayal of Prince Charles, but royal experts were appalled by TheCrown's latest depiction.
is such a lavish and expensive production, so beautifully acted and cleverly written, and so much attention has been paid to visual details about historical events, viewers are tricked into believing that what they are seeing actually happened,” Bedell Smith. “While the earlier seasons were period pieces, this is recent history, so it seems more cruel in its false depictions.”
Bedell Smith, who has written biographies on the queen, Prince Charles, and Diana, pointed out several errors involving Charles’s depiction in the show’s fourth season. In an early season-four episode,’s Charles returns from his six-week trip to Australia, New Zealand, and the United States in the spring of 1981 and rushes straight to Highgrove to be with Camilla.
“This is false,” said Bedell Smith. “He went to Buckingham Palace. At that time, Highgrove was under renovation and redecoration, which Diana supervised with her mother’s interior designer, Dudley Poplak. Charles and Diana didn’t move into Highgrove until late 1981.” “It should also be emphasized,” continued Bedell Smith, “that Diana strayed first from the marital bed, with her affair that began in 1985 with her protection officer, Barry Mannakee. He was transferred out of the Wales household in the summer of 1986, which upset Diana. She metIf anyone in the Wales marriage was emotionally abusive, Bedell Smith contends that it was Diana.
“She mocked Charles’s ideas and declined to read her own briefing material or take the advice of the courtiers assigned to help her,” said Bedell Smith. “As their marriage frayed, she abused Charles emotionally, taunting him for the medals he wore, for instance, and telling him he would never be king. To his credit—and contrary to some of what I am told appears in
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