Royal Intimate Slams Netflix For “Trying To Destroy The Family” With ‘The Crown’; Says Prince Harry “Shouldn‘t Take A Penny From Streamer”

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Another royal intimate has added their voice to those criticising The Crown, ahead of the fifth season’s arrival next week on Netflix.

The Times quotes the unnamed female friend of the royal family, who attended the Queen’s private committal service at Windsor last month, as slamming the streamer’s editorial decisions, saying they are “vilifying the royal family.

It is vicious. It’s as if they’re trying to destroy the royal family.” Of Prince Harry’s current big-budget partnership with Netflix, which will see the eventual release of his fly-on-the-wall documentary and other projects, the woman told The Times that the Duke was in “the most invidious position.”  She added: “If I had my family being vilified like that, I wouldn’t take a penny [from Netflix].” This follows a catalogue of critics in the lead-up to the new series, which features a catalogue of unedifying events in the lives of the then Prince and Princess of Wales in the mid-1990s, as their marriage founded amid affairs on both sides, and mutual mud-slinging in the national press.

It is clearly not ideal timing for these events to re-enter the public consciousness as King Charles begins to set out stall for his reign, and look ahead to next year’s Coronation.