The Crown.Photo: Netflix
Queen Elizabeth’s lifelong friend is unhappy withThe Crown.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour on Thursday, Lady Anne Glenconner, who was a maid of honor at thelate Queen’s June 1953 coronation, described the hit Netflix drama as “complete fantasy.”
“[It’s] so unfair on members of the Royal Family,” added Lady Glenconner, who served asPrincess Margaret’s lady-in-waitingfor more than three decades.
“The trouble is that people, especially in America, believe it completely,” she added. “It’s so irritating. I don’t watchThe Crownnow because it just makes me so angry.”
Glenconner, 90, was particularly scathing about a scene involving the 1937 death ofPrince Philip’s sister, Princess Cecile of Greece, in a plane crash.
The tragic event featured in season 2 ofThe Crownand portrayed thelate Duke of Edinburghas urging his sister to board the doomed flight — something Glenconner called “completely untrue.”
“And I think to say something like that about people is terribly hurting,” she added. “Nobody wants to have their relations trashed like that.”
Elsewhere, Glenconner criticized The Crown for showing Princess Margaret creating rude rhymes with U.S. President Lyndon B Johnson, and debating the qualities of various eligible men.
“I mean, of course that never happened,” she told the BBC.
Glenconner also had stern words for Helena Bonham Carter, who played Princess Margaret in two seasons ofThe Crownand even visited Glenconner for advice on how to capture her character.
“She came for about two hours. I told her how Princess Margaret smoked, how she walked,” said Glenconner.
Elizabeth Debicki in The Crown.Keith Bernstein/Netflix
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“I saw Helena after she’d been in The Crown and she said, ‘What did you think?’ And I said, ‘Well, rather disappointed.’ And she said, ‘I know. But the thing is, I’m an actress, and I have to do what’s written for me.'”
Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret in The Crown.Keith Bernstein/Netflix
It adds thatThe Crown"tells the story ofQueen ElizabethII and the political and personal events that shaped her reign."
The latest season of the royal drama hit the streamer on Nov. 9 and spotlights the turbulent dissolution ofPrincess DianaandPrince Charles’s marriage, the escalation of his relationship with the futureQueen Camilla, the 1992 fire at Windsor Castle and Diana’s 1995 BBC Panorama interview.
source: people.com
