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‘We don’t know what went on!’ The Crown star warns Netflix show ‘still just a drama’
The Crown acting opposite Emma Corrin, 26, who played the late Princess Diana.The Midsomer Murders actress spoke about how the series was still a dramatised version of the royal family’s lives in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk.Annette played Doctor Margaret Heagarty in a season 4 episode of The Crown entitled War. The episode shows Prince Charles growing more determined to separate from Princess Diana as their marriage unravels.One of the most pivotal scenes in War is when Diana (Emma Corrin) goes to visit the paediatric AIDS unit of Harlem Hospital, where she hugs a 7-year-old boy with AIDS and substantially changes the public attitude towards the illness. While this moment also played out in real life, Annette, who acted as the director of paediatrics in the episode, pointed out that not everything you see in The Crown is an accurate depiction of reality. When asked if she ever worried people would think The Crown is completely true to life, she replied: “Yes, I do.“But it is a drama.
