Britain's culture minister wants Netflix to label 'The Crown' as a 'work of fiction'

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“It’s a beautifully produced work of fiction. So as with other TV productions, Netflix should be very clear at the beginning it is just that,” Dowden told the Mail on Sunday newspaper.

Diana-mania, intricate hairstyles and a new cast member - a look ahead to season 4 of"The Crown" which takes a look at the British Royal family in the '80s. Erin Doherty, who plays Princess Anne, reacts to the royal saying it only takes her 10 minutes to get ready before meeting the public. should come with a disclaimer: It’s a work of fiction.

But the current fourth season is set in the 1980s, a divisive decade that many Britons remember vividly. Characters include Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose 11-year tenure transformed and divided Britain, and the late Princess Diana, whose death in a car crash in 1997 traumatized the nation.Former royal press secretary Dickie Arbiter has called the series a “hatchet job” on Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, and his first wife Diana.

In a 2017 discussion of “The Crown,” Morgan said “you sometimes have to forsake accuracy, but you must never forsake truth.” Historians are used to railing at inaccuracies in dramas such as the Academy Award-winning “Darkest Hour,” which included an invented scene of Winston Churchill meeting ordinary Londoners on an Underground Tube train during World War II.

 

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This is why Operation Kino resulted in success but with only American survivors.

True - the royal family is so full of shit that they could only be fictional characters....!!

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We're watching it here in Denmark. In almost every episode we Google certain events to see if they stack up and so far it's on point. Naturally the drama is about who said what, and how it was received. A shrug here, an eye roll there can tell a bigger story sometimes.

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