Queen Elizabeth II’s Longtime Friend Lady Anne Glenconner Slams ‘The Crown’: It’s ‘Irritating’

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The Crown chronicles Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign on the Netflix series, but some of the late monarch’s loved ones are not fans of the fictionalized drama.“The trouble is that people, especially in America, believe it completely.

It’s so irritating,” Lady Anne Glenconner, a longtime friend of Her Majesty, said during an appearance on BBC Radio 4’s “Women’s Hour” on Thursday, November 24. “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.”The 90-year-old England native — who served as a maid of honor at the queen’s 1947 nuptials to Prince Philip — further called the five-season drama a “complete fantasy” regarding the accuracy of its story lines.The Crown season 5 dropped on the streaming giant earlier this month, highlighting the dissolution of the marriage between King Charles III — who succeeded Elizabeth in September after her death at the age of 96 — and Princess Diana.

The latest batch of episodes also featured Diana — who died in a 1997 fatal Paris car crash — working with Andrew Morton on his biography about her life before sitting down with the BBC’s Panorama for a tell-all interview amid Charles’ romance with Queen Consort Camilla. Imelda Staunton and Jonathan Pryce star as the queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, who died in April 2021, on The Crown season 5. Dominic West and Elizabeth Debicki, for their parts, portray Charles and Diana.Ahead of season 5’s debut on the streaming service, The Crown came under fire over claims of historical inaccuracy.“The closer the drama comes to our present times, the more freely it seems willing to blur the lines between historical accuracy and crude sensationalism,” Judi Dench wrote in an open letter to The