Tensions between the British royal family and Netflix are rising. Since the platform decided in 2016 to bring the most significant years of the life of Queen Elizabeth II to the small screen in the TV series The Crown, after five seasons, fiction continues to cause controversy. The Times reported that Philip of Edinburgh himself, the husband of the longest-lived monarch in British history, considered suing the creators over the image he was offered.causing him to feel “deeply hurt and upset” about the character being recreated in The Crown.

One of the chapters that caused the Duke of Edinburgh the most pain is part of the second season of the Netflix series. In particular, this is the one episode in which the wife of Queen Elizabeth II experiences the death of her sister Cecilia in 1937.. As reflected in The Crown, Prince Felipe was a boarder at the Scottish school at Gordonstoun when, after being punished, he was forced to spend his summer holidays there, without the possibility of returning to Germany with the rest of his family. Exactly then his sister, along with her husband and two children, decided to board a plane to meet again after a fatal accident.. But it was not so, rather, the plane crash that killed Princess Cecilia and her family occurred on the way to London for the wedding of Prince Louis of Hesse.

In “The Crown” Father of Philip of Edinburgh accuses son this tragedy, being a gesture that so bothered the true character who never understood why Netflix blamed him for the death of his sister Cecilia. A close friend of the Duke himself reports in a British newspaper that he made public the information that “I remember sitting next to the Duke of Edinburgh at a dinner party and how upset he was about the show and what was said about it.”.

Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh pose to celebrate her 90th and 95th birthdays.

In addition, the aforementioned media also indicated, thanks to an interview with historian Hugo Vickers, that Philip of Edinburgh is here for a meeting with Farrer & Co, a law firm that has been advising the royal family on legal matters for decades. Brit to assess possible legal action that could be taken against Netflix over an image that has been suggested of it.

Tensions between Netflix and the British Crown

Although the second season of Netflix aired a few years ago, The Crown continues to release new chapters. Specifically, On November 9, 2022, the premiere of the fifth season took place, the penultimate one, which will be in the series and which will be dedicated to the most “terrible” years of the British royal family.: divorces, the fire at Windsor Castle or the “tumpongate” of the current King Carlos III and Queen Camilla. Own Prince William came to the conclusion that fiction was damaging to the Crown’s image.despite the fact that its finale has not yet been broadcast: the scandalous death of Princess Diana of Wales.