The Crown’s portrayal of the Royal Family is ‘complete fantasy’ and ‘so unfair’, Lady Anne Glenconner, the late Princess Margaret‘s lady-in-waiting, has said.
The socialite, 90, who was a maid of honour at Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, told BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour that the show ‘just makes me so angry’.
She said: ‘The trouble is that people, especially in America, believe it completely. It’s so irritating. I don’t watch The Crown now because it just makes me so angry. And it’s so unfair on members of the royal family.’
A Netflix spokesman previously said: ‘The Crown has always been presented as a drama based on historical events.
‘Series five is a fictional dramatisation, imagining what could have happened behind closed doors during a significant decade for the Royal Family – one that has already been scrutinised and well documented by journalists, biographers and historians.’
Lady Anne Glenconner (pictured in November 2019), who was a lifelong friend of the late…
