5 Times The Crown Royally Screwed Up Its Accuracy

One of Netflix 's biggest hits, The Crown, is a favorite show for many viewers. Released in 2016, the drama about the British royal family unravels the many secrets that have been attached to the names of the family members for years.

However, despite the fact that the writers have really managed to create a compelling series that is mostly accurate to the real facts about the royal family, there are still many things that have been wrongly addressed in the show. Here are five examples.

1. Princess Diana And Her 'Panorama' Interview

This interview of Princess Diana created quite a stir in the life of the royal family and among people all over the world. The brutal things she said on air made us all understand the hard position she was put under for the most time in the family.

However, the show implies that Diana herself went to see Queen and tell her in advance that the interview will air, to make her aware of the upcoming scandal. But in reality nothing like that happened.

2. Dodi Fayed Probably Didn’t Propose To Diana On The Night Of The Crash

Another famous rumor about Diana's private life is the fact that Dodi Fayed proposed to her on the tragic night they both died. The show depicts their dialogue in Paris, where Fayed presents her with a ring and asks her to marry him, and Diana gently declines. But in reality, there is no evidence that this ever happened that day, although we know for sure that it was his intention to marry her.

3. Diana Didn't Plan To Meet Charles Wearing a Costume

It seems like The Crown wanted to make the show more controversial, even though there's enough scandal and controversy in the royal family without mixing it with fake stuff. For example, the series made the fans believe that the first ever meeting of Charles and Diana was orchestrated by her.

In the drama, she appears in front of the prince wearing a costume for a school play, and afterward her older sister suggests that she probably did it on purpose. The reality, however, was less interesting: there was no costume when they first met.

4. Margaret Thatcher's Decision To Retake The Falklands Has Nothing To Do With Her Son

The show makes us believe that the decision to start the war against Argentina came to Thatcher while she was vulnerable after finding out that her son Mark had disappeared. Her government ministers begged her not to, but the anger was so intense that she wanted to do something about it, and the war seemed the right thing to do.

However, the show's writers went a bit overboard in their portrayal of Thatcher, making her much more empathetic and emotionally driven than she actually was. There's no way that the decision to start the war was in any way related to her son, at least because the timing of two events is not right: the war started many months after the son was back home.

5. Philip's Mother Never Did An Interview With The Guardian

Prince Philip's mother, Princess Alice, was actually a very controversial figure in history. The show shows her coming to Buckingham Palace to escape the political turmoil in Greece. At the time, the BBC documentary about the Windsors' daily life backfires wildly, and to save the day, Princess Alice gives an interview to the Guardian.

Well, that's not true. First of all, there was no such interview. And second, the BBC documentary wasn't really that big of a disaster, and there was no need to go to extreme measures to calm people down.