😍 2022-10-23 16:38:00 – Paris/France.
The platform resisted requests to add such a message.
But critics have grown increasingly vocal on the eve of the fifth season premiere, scheduled for November 9, just two months after the death of the 96-year-old monarch and the accession to the throne of her son Carlos III.
One of the new episodes, set in the 1990s, shows the future heir attempting to implicate then-Prime Minister John Major in an attempt to get his mother to step down.
Major called the fiction harmful and wicked.
“There was never any discussion between Sir John and the then Prince of Wales about the possible abdication of the late Queen Elizabeth II, and such an unlikely and inappropriate matter was never brought up by the then Prince of Wales (or Sir John). said a statement released by the former prime minister's office.
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Actress Judi Dench - who in several films has played Queen Victoria - joined the critics and said the series was cruel and unfair to the royal family.
Dench, close to the current King Charles and the Queen Consort, criticized the platform for blurring the lines between historical accuracy and crude sensationalism. His concern is that a significant number of viewers will confuse the series with historical truth.
A royal biographer, William Shawcross, told AFP last week that the series was riddled with lies and half-truths.
Last week, a Netflix spokeswoman reiterated that the series was a fictional dramatization, imagining what could have happened behind closed doors.
Netflix was not immediately available on Friday to explain its decision.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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