The Crown's portrayal of Countess Mountbatten is 'deliberately cruel', say critics
msn.cominvented scenes between the Duke and Lady Mountbatten at her estate in Hampshire. The programme uses the death of her daughter from cancer at the age of five as a jumping off point to show the Duke comforting her while grieving.
It juxtaposes those scenes with the late Queen and her husband engaged in frosty conversations and sleeping in separate bedrooms.
Supporters of Lady Mountbatten have been left angered and upset that her close relationship with the Queen and her husband has been turned into fiction.
Their distress has been exacerbated by the choice of the actress Natascha McElhone to play her. Ms McElhone’s stepfather is Roy Greenslade, a former editor of the Daily Mirror, Guardian columnist and professor of journalism, who outed himself last year as an IRA sympathiser who had written regularly under a pseudonym for An Phoblacht, Sinn Fein’s weekly newspaper.
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