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The Crown: The reality of the Queen's 'Annus Horribilis' speech

The fourth episode of the fifth series sees the Queen, played by Imelda Staunton, reflect on the scandals and heartbreak of 1992 in her Ruby Jubilee speech

Bristol Post

The Crown season 5: fact or fiction? What’s real and what’s invented in the new series of the Netflix hit?

What Peter Morgan got right, what he might have taken some dramatic licence with... SPOILERS AHEAD

Evening Standard

The Crown's unexpected link between all three Prince Philip actors will stun fans

House of the Dragon star Matt Smith, Game of Thrones actor Tobias Menzies and Oscar-nominated Jonathan Pryce have all played the Queen's husband in different seasons of the Netflix series

Irish Mirror

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Beware The Crown’s blurring of fact and fiction in this age of dangerous untruths

It might be ‘only’ a TV show, but the boundaries between history and make-believe need to be clear, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

The Crown fans dub season five opener 'weak' despite return of key star

Fans were also critical of Jonny Lee Miller's appearance as John Major

Wales Online

The Crown viewers conflicted about ‘fancying’ Jonny Lee Miller as John Major in season 5

‘I don’t want to fancy him,’ one worried viewer wrote

The Independent UK

Behind the scenes of The Crown Season 5: ‘You’re eating out of Tupperware and everybody’s got tiaras on’

The cast and crew share what it was like to bring the latest season to life

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Is The Crown True? The real story behind the Netflix drama as Season 5 hits our screens with controversial scenes

The Netflix drama depicts real-life events from the history of the British royal family but how much of the show's storyline is actually true?

Irish Mirror

‘The Crown’ review: All My Windsors returns for Season 5 with divorce drama between Charles and Diana

The 1990s were an especially rough decade for the British royal family, a time filled with scandals about (but not exclusive to) Charles and Diana, the Prince and Princess of Wales, whose faltering marriage finally broke down for good and in public. This is where Season 5 of “The Crown”…

Chicago Tribune

Netflix The Crown series 5 cast including Welsh Oscar winner Jonathan Pryce

The drama following the life of Queen Elizabeth II is back

Wales Online

Did John Major and Prince Charles really meet for secret talks about The Queen?

Netflix’s The Crown returned this week, and one particular scene has proved controversial

Manchester Evening News

The Crown fans feel ‘very old’ as they realise who John Major actor is

Netflix’s royal drama has returned for its penultimate season

Manchester Evening News

I can forgive The Crown for jazzing up the facts – but not for being so horribly clunky

When covering the royals, we often talk about the family ‘soap opera’. The conversations here are straight out of a poor one, says Stephen Bates, the Guardian’s former royal correspondent

The Guardian - UK

Pro-monarchy group calls for Netflix boycott over The Crown's royal 'falsehoods'

A PRO-MONARCHY group in Australia have called for a boycott of Netflix's hit series The Crown as a row over the show's accuracy mounts.

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The Crown viewers conflicted over Jonny Lee Miller as John Major in season 5

‘I don’t want to fancy him,’ one worried viewer wrote

Daily Mirror

Did Charles try to make the Queen abdicate? Truth behind The Crown's controversial storyline

Season five of The Crown shows Prince Charles meeting with Prime Minister John Major to discuss the Queen's abdication - but people who were there at the time have labelled the storyline a "barrel-load of nonsense"

The Independent UK

The Crown: Did Prince Charles really have a meeting with John Major?

Major has recently called the Netflix series a ‘barrel-load of nonsense’

The Independent UK

The Crown season five review: This Netflix show is the definition of first world problems

The drama was initially intended as a piece of historical fiction, but the longer it has gone on, the more tawdry it’s become

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The Independent UK

Why is everyone in The Crown so sexy?

Is the Netflix hit’s relationship to controversy in direct proportion to the inappropriate attractiveness of its ensemble cast? Adam White investigates why a show about largely unsexy people is so ripe with sexy actors

The New Daily

‘Inaccuracies’: Pro-royal lobby group urges boycott of The Crown amid ‘explosive’ premiere

The Australian Monarchist League says viewers should ‘withdraw’ support for The Crown and Netflix unless it corrects the record

The Guardian - AU

Australian Monarchist League calls for boycott of The Crown and Netflix

AML says Netflix must ‘correct the record’ and add disclaimer to address ‘falsehoods’ about the royal family

Los Angeles Times

Why Britain is in an uproar over ‘The Crown’ — and why it’s a tempest in a teapot

The people of the United Kingdom are in the midst of a challenging moment.

ABC News

Season five of The Crown has dropped in Australia. Here are some of its key talking points

Covering the phone tapping scandal, Charles and Diana's divorce and the Camilla affair, it was thought this season was going to make the new king look awful. But it could have been worse.

Tribune News Service

Review: 'The Crown' is gentle on the queen’s ‘Annus Horribilis’

“The senior royals seem dangerously deluded and out of touch … and the Prince of Wales impatient for a great role in public life, not realizing his great asset is his wife,” says Prime Minister John Major (Jonny Lee Miller) in the first episode of the new season of "The…

ABC News

Netflix's controversial hit The Crown returns to chronicle Prince Charles and Diana's marriage breakdown

The monarchy has entered a new era, casting an even brighter spotlight on The Crown. Here's everything you need to know about the controversial fifth season.

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