Princess Diana’s Biographer Andrew Morton Says The Crown’s Disclaimer Is ‘Ridiculous’

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Netflix reacted to critics of The Crown by adding a dramatization disclaimer to season 5, but at least one viewer wasn’t impressed by the decision: Princess Diana‘s biographer, Andrew Morton.“I thought it was ridiculous,” the author exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting his new book, The Queen: Her Life, which hits shelves on Tuesday, November 15. “I mean, it is a drama.

It’s not a documentary. That’s been said about 10 million times. Not everything in it is going to be authentic.”Season 5 of the series dropped on Wednesday, November 9, marking the first new episodes of the show since Queen Elizabeth II‘s death in September.

Following backlash about The Crown‘s accuracy — including in an open letter written by Judi Dench — Netflix added a statement to the show’s official web page that reads: “Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization tells the story of Queen Elizabeth II and the political and personal events that shaped her reign.”While the show is fictionalized, Morton thinks the cast and crew have done an excellent job recreating the period when he knew Diana.“It was like being transported back in time,” he told Us of watching the new episodes. “It was quite unnerving, quite frankly, because the woman who plays Diana — Elizabeth Debicki — absolutely nailed everything about her mannerisms, her gestures, her speech patterns. … I was kind of shaking really with the verisimilitude of it all.”In July 1992, Morton published Diana: Her True Story, which was written with help from the late Princess of Wales.

She secretly sent him audio tapes of herself narrating her life, which he then used to write the book. At the time of its publication, however, her involvement with the book was not public knowledge.Season