UK Government Asks Netflix to Make it Clear ‘The Crown’ Is Fictional

Netflix’ wildly popular Royals saga “The Crown” continues to be in the crosshairs of controversy overseas with its suspicions over fidelity to facts.Speaking to The Daily Mail, Cultural Secretary Oliver Dowden said, “It’s a beautifully produced work of fiction, so as with other TV productions, Netflix should be very clear at the beginning it is just that.”“Without this,” he added, I fear a generation of viewers who did not live through these events may mistake fiction for fact.” Dowden is proposing a “health warning” to accompany the series, which he accuses of doing lasting damage to the monarchy and including Prince Charles.A source close to the Prince told the Mail, “It is quite sinister the way that [writer Peter] Morgan is clearly using light entertainment to drive a very overt republican agenda and people just don’t see it.

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