Netflix adds disclaimer under The Crown's trailer for series five - BBC

Netflix has added a disclaimer to its selling for The Crown, saying the amusement is simply a "fictional dramatisation", "inspired by real-life events".

It appears nether the trailer connected YouTube and the show's online page, but not connected TV oregon via a smartphone Netflix app.

Netflix told BBC News the amusement "has ever been presented arsenic a play based connected humanities events".

Dame Judi Dench and ex-Prime Minister Sir John Major person raised concerns astir the accuracy of the royal series.

The YouTube, online and Twitter statement of the bid says: "Inspired by existent events, this fictional dramatisation tells the communicative of Queen Elizabeth II and the governmental and idiosyncratic events that shaped her reign."

Similar connection has been utilized successful property statements before, but nary erstwhile YouTube trailers person carried the connection "fictional".

The BBC has asked Netflix if it has plans for the connection "fictionalised" to look connected the work accessed done a TV acceptable and the Netflix app connected mobile devices, fixed it already appears online.

This week, Dame Judi became the latest high-profile fig to call for The Crown to person a disclaimer astatine the commencement of each episode, to marque wide the bid is not needfully true.

The actress, who is adjacent to King Charles and the Queen Consort, said Netflix "seems consenting to blur the lines betwixt humanities accuracy and crude sensationalism".

She added determination was a hazard that "a important fig of viewers" would instrumentality its events arsenic humanities truth.

The Oscar winner, who has portrayed Queen Victoria connected screen, said suggestions expected to beryllium made successful the caller bid were "cruelly unjust to the individuals and damaging to the instauration they represent", particularly coming truthful soon aft the decease of the Queen.

Netflix has defended The Crown, saying bid 5 is "a fictional dramatisation, imagining what could person happened down closed doors during a important decennary for the royal household - 1 that has already been scrutinised and good documented by journalists, biographers and historians."

The trailer for the caller series, which airs connected 9 November, was released connected Thursday. It suggests the bid volition absorption heavy connected Diana, Princess of Wales, and the fallout arsenic she and Prince Charles, arsenic helium was then, hole to divorce.

It includes a recreation of Princess Diana's 1995 interrogation with Martin Bashir. The existent footage volition not beryllium shown connected the BBC again after an enquiry found "deceitful" means were utilized to get it.

Diana, played by Elizabeth Debicki, is seen telling Bashir, portrayed by Prasanna Puwanarajah: "I won't spell quietly, I'll conflict until the end." In existent life, Princess Diana did not accidental that successful the interview.

Dame Judi's comments followed concerns by erstwhile premier curate Sir John Major, who said an upcoming country that is said to see a speech betwixt him and Prince Charles, arsenic helium was then, astir the Queen abdicating, was "a barrel-load of malicious nonsense".