The Crown Season 5: Hidden Details Based On The True History In You May Not Notice

It seems to bother many British newspapers that The Crown, which recently premiered its fifth season on Netflix, might not be 100% historically accurate. While biopics often inspire debates around their veracity and the appropriateness of such dramatizations, there’s something about this show that’s made a lot of people very upset: Royalists (and Judi Dench) have decried The Crown as cruel to the poor institutional monarchy of Great Britain.
He cosigned a letter to The Times, calling on Netflix to add a disclaimer to the series. “No one is a greater believer in artistic freedom than I, but this cannot go unchallenged,” Dench wrote. “Despite this week stating publicly that The Crown has always been a “fictionalized drama” the programme makers have resisted all calls for them to carry a disclaimer at the start of each episode.”
But the series does feature some history that is factual. Here are some hidden details where the show leans into actual history.

1. The friendship between Prince Phillip and Penny Knatchbull

Source: Vogue

 Jonathan Pryce as Prince Phillip and Natascha McElhone as Penny Knatchbull in Season 5 of "The Crown." Penny Knatchbull married the godson of the Duke of Edinburgh, but her friendship with Prince Phillip was solid in a way that went beyond that.
The series features Prince Phillip stepping in to help Knatchbull after a family tragedy which leads to years of them growing closer. She became “the second-most important woman in the Duke of Edinburgh’s life — a constant confidante, loyal companion and ‘keeper of secrets’” Ingrid Seward wrote in her 2020 book “Prince Philip Revealed.”
“The Crown” makes a point to show that the much older Prince Phillip was not romantically involved with Knatchbull, but rather bonded over their common interests like carriage riding.

2. Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s marriage misery

Source: History.com

The series kicks off with the beloved royal couple heading off on what was supposed to be a romantic holiday, but doesn’t end up that way. Granted we have no idea if a young Prince William and Prince Harry actually did ally with their mom over their dad on vacation activities, but the show does a pretty good job of documenting how unhappy Princess Diana and then Prince Charles were.
They cover it all - from Andrew Morton’s bombshell “Diana” book (which she cooperated on from behind the scenes) in 1996 to the utter cringe that was the leaking of then Prince Charles and his now wife Camilla’s salacious phone conversations that caused a huge controversy because of their infidelity.

Source: History.com

 One senses that as tortured as it’s portrayed on the screen, it was even worse for the couple in real life.
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3. The fire at Windsor Castle

Source: Daily Mail

During the speech she made to mark her 40th anniversary on the throne, Queen Elizabeth makes a speech about the year 1992 being her “annus horribilis.”
“1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure,” she said. One of the reasons she had such an awful year was because of a fire at Windsor Castle that destroyed more than 100 rooms.
The fire is not a major storyline, but a scene showing Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth surveying the destruction seems to serve as a symbol of the troubles in her family and - by extension - her country.

4. The famous “revenge dress”

Source: The Telegraph

 Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana in the now famous "revenge dress." After Prince Charles admitted during an ITN documentary in 1994 that he had not been loyal to Princess Diana, she stepped out in a black, off the shoulder Christina Stambolian dress that was dubbed “the revenge dress.” The now iconic scene is recreated in the show by Elizabeth Debicki, who is winning raves for her portrayal of Princess Diana.
 
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