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The Crown: Did Prince Charles really have a meeting with John Major?

Major has recently called the Netflix series a ‘barrel-load of nonsense’

The Independent UK

The Crown: 7 things from season 5 that never actually took place

Season five of the hit Netflix series, The Crown, has landed on our screens and with people binge watching the show and now awaiting season six, we thought we would take a look at some fact versus fiction.

Edinburgh Live

Seven former Prime Ministers line up at Cenotaph for first time - including Liz Truss

Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Sir Tony Blair and Sir John Major attended the national Remembrance Sunday service - though Ms Truss did not lay a wreath during her 49-day premiership

Daily Mirror

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The week in TV: The Crown; The English; Mammals; I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!

The Crown returns with terrible timing and a great cast squandered; James Corden is the weak link in Jez Butterworth’s pitch-black comedy drama; and there’s a new snake in the jungle…

The Guardian - UK

Netflix: The eight biggest lies from The Crown season five which didn't happen in real life

How much of the new Netflix hit is fact, and how much is complete and utter fiction?

Chronicle Live

The Crown season five review: This Netflix show is the definition of first world problems

The drama was initially intended as a piece of historical fiction, but the longer it has gone on, the more tawdry it’s become

The Independent UK

The Crown's most shocking moments - Queen ousting plot, jail threat and intimate call

The eagerly-awaited fifth series of The Crown has finally dropped on Netflix charting the lives of the royals in the early 90s - and here we take a look at some of the season’s most controversial moments

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The Crown: The reality of the Queen's 'Annus Horribilis' speech

The fourth episode of the fifth series sees the Queen, played by Imelda Staunton, reflect on the scandals and heartbreak of 1992 in her Ruby Jubilee speech

Bristol Post

The Crown season 5: fact or fiction? What’s real and what’s invented in the new series of the Netflix hit?

What Peter Morgan got right, what he might have taken some dramatic licence with... SPOILERS AHEAD

Evening Standard

The Crown's unexpected link between all three Prince Philip actors will stun fans

House of the Dragon star Matt Smith, Game of Thrones actor Tobias Menzies and Oscar-nominated Jonathan Pryce have all played the Queen's husband in different seasons of the Netflix series

Irish Mirror

Beware The Crown’s blurring of fact and fiction in this age of dangerous untruths

It might be ‘only’ a TV show, but the boundaries between history and make-believe need to be clear, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

The Crown fans dub season five opener 'weak' despite return of key star

Fans were also critical of Jonny Lee Miller's appearance as John Major

Wales Online

The Crown viewers conflicted about ‘fancying’ Jonny Lee Miller as John Major in season 5

‘I don’t want to fancy him,’ one worried viewer wrote

The Independent UK

Behind the scenes of The Crown Season 5: ‘You’re eating out of Tupperware and everybody’s got tiaras on’

The cast and crew share what it was like to bring the latest season to life

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Irish Mirror

Is The Crown True? The real story behind the Netflix drama as Season 5 hits our screens with controversial scenes

The Netflix drama depicts real-life events from the history of the British royal family but how much of the show's storyline is actually true?

Chicago Tribune

‘The Crown’ review: All My Windsors returns for Season 5 with divorce drama between Charles and Diana

The 1990s were an especially rough decade for the British royal family, a time filled with scandals about (but not exclusive to) Charles and Diana, the Prince and Princess of Wales, whose faltering marriage finally broke down for good and in public. This is where Season 5 of “The Crown”…

Wales Online

Netflix The Crown series 5 cast including Welsh Oscar winner Jonathan Pryce

The drama following the life of Queen Elizabeth II is back

Manchester Evening News

Did John Major and Prince Charles really meet for secret talks about The Queen?

Netflix’s The Crown returned this week, and one particular scene has proved controversial

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Manchester Evening News

The Crown fans feel ‘very old’ as they realise who John Major actor is

Netflix’s royal drama has returned for its penultimate season

The Guardian - UK

I can forgive The Crown for jazzing up the facts – but not for being so horribly clunky

When covering the royals, we often talk about the family ‘soap opera’. The conversations here are straight out of a poor one, says Stephen Bates, the Guardian’s former royal correspondent

The National (Scotland)

Pro-monarchy group calls for Netflix boycott over The Crown's royal 'falsehoods'

A PRO-MONARCHY group in Australia have called for a boycott of Netflix's hit series The Crown as a row over the show's accuracy mounts.

The Independent UK

The Crown viewers conflicted over Jonny Lee Miller as John Major in season 5

‘I don’t want to fancy him,’ one worried viewer wrote

Daily Mirror

Did Charles try to make the Queen abdicate? Truth behind The Crown's controversial storyline

Season five of The Crown shows Prince Charles meeting with Prime Minister John Major to discuss the Queen's abdication - but people who were there at the time have labelled the storyline a "barrel-load of nonsense"

The Independent UK

The Crown: Did Prince Charles really have a meeting with John Major?

Major has recently called the Netflix series a ‘barrel-load of nonsense’

The Independent UK

The Crown season five review: This Netflix show is the definition of first world problems

The drama was initially intended as a piece of historical fiction, but the longer it has gone on, the more tawdry it’s become

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