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The Crown, Windsors, duty, personal fulfillment, Royal power, fiction, Oliver Dowden

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This document contains a resume and essay regarding the Netflix series "The Crown".

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[...] Article resume and essay Does it matter if "The Crown" fictionalises reality? It is more truthful than the story the royals sold Dec 5th 2020 - The Economist struggling to find any redeeming features in these people at all," says Margaret Thatcher to her husband Denis in the course of a visit to Balmoral Castle, where the Thatchers are snubbed, humiliated and forced to play an after-dinner game called `Ibble Dibble' in which players smear their faces with burnt cork while getting drunk. [...]

[...] The queen did not visit Churchill on his deathbed. The row between Lord Mountbatten and Prince Charles before the prince's mentor is blown up by the ira is, so far as anybody knows, made up. Yet the monarchy, too, is a purveyor of fiction. "Richard III" was propaganda written by a Tudor toady to justify the overthrow of the previous regime. The Windsors constructed their own happy-family story, which turned out to be less true than the fictionalised tale of dysfunction and despair. [...]

[...] This staging, in the context of landmark events such as when Mrs. Thatcher was in power, gave me a better understanding of the relationships between each of the important figures in recent UK history. However, I believe that the distance from reality taken by the writers and directors is welcome. Indeed, it allows us to appreciate a story that is not a documentary but an entertainment. In these circumstances, I think it is legitimate to see some of the characters, for example Princess Diana, acting in a way that is not really in line with reality. [...]

[...] If the monarchy is so vulnerable that a man pretending to be Prince Charles saying mean things to a woman pretending to be his wife damages it gravely, then the institution has probably outlived its usefulness. Famous people are often portrayed in ways they do not like, but that is one of the costs of free speech. If they feel strongly enough about it, they can sue; but Netflix's lawyers are probably not sitting by the phone. The most interesting charge is of untruth. Certainly, "The Crown" distorts chronology and invents events. Prince Philip was not estranged from his mother. [...]

[...] Still, the government's concern for veracity is welcome. Perhaps in future Mr Johnson will pay closer attention to the truth than he did when heading a campaign to leave the European Union which claimed that Brexit would save the country Pound350m a week, or when he said over a year ago that a trade deal was "oven-ready". Those lies could lead to a geopolitical divorce far messier than the Windsors' Briefly summarize the article in 100 words The Netflix series The Crown is the subject of much debate over the supposed veracity of the facts staged within this fiction. [...]