The Crown: Queen's friend says Netflix show 'makes me so angry'

A lifelong person of the Queen has described Netflix's royal play The Crown arsenic "complete fantasy" and "so unfair connected members of the Royal Family".

Lady Glenconner, who was a maid of honour astatine the Queen's coronation, said the amusement "just makes maine truthful angry".

"The occupation is that people, particularly successful America, judge it completely," she told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.

Netflix has defended the show, saying it "has ever been presented arsenic a play based connected humanities events".

Lady Glenconner knew the Queen from puerility and was lady-in-waiting to her sister, Princess Margaret, for much than 30 years.

She told Woman's Hour: "It's truthful irritating. I don't ticker The Crown present due to the fact that it conscionable makes maine truthful angry. And it's truthful unfair connected members of the royal family."

She cited 1 occurrence successful bid two, which portrayed the Duke of Edinburgh arsenic being liable for his sister Cecilie taking the formation that resulted successful her decease successful a level clang successful 1937.

"That was wholly untrue," Lady Glenconner said. "And I deliberation to accidental thing similar that astir radical is terribly hurting. Nobody wants to person their relations trashed similar that."

In the 3rd series, Princess Margaret was shown having a contention to travel up with soiled limericks with US President Lyndon B Johnson successful 1965. "Well, I mean, of people she ne'er did that," she said.

Lady Glenconner herself is portrayed successful The Crown, and different country successful bid 3 depicts her discussing the merits of assorted men with the precocious princess. "I mean, of people that ne'er happened."

Helena Bonham Carter, who played Margaret successful bid 3 and four, visited Lady Glenconner to inquire for her advice, she said.

"She came for astir 2 hours. I told her however Princess Margaret smoked, however she walked.

"I saw Helena aft she'd been successful The Crown and she said, 'What did you think?' And I said, 'Well, alternatively disappointed.' And she said, 'I know. But the happening is, I'm an actress, and I person to bash what's written for me.'"

Lesley Manville has taken implicit playing Margaret for the latest series, which launched earlier this month.

Her portrayal was convincing capable for US rapper Cardi B to suggest connected Twitter connected Wednesday that they whitethorn person got connected well.

Netflix has said: "The Crown has ever been presented arsenic a play based connected humanities events."

The streaming elephantine says the amusement is described arsenic a fictional play based connected existent events successful each property materials, formed and unit interviews, connected societal media, and connected the show's landing leafage connected the service.

Meanwhile, Lady Glenconner said she thought determination was inactive a spot for royal ladies-in-waiting following reports that Camilla, the Queen Consort, volition scrap the tradition.

"The crushed for ladies successful waiting is that, though we bash a batch of jobs and letters and each that benignant of thing, we're friends.," she said. "When you spell overseas and person a very, precise engaged day, successful the evening I utilized to spell up to Princess Margaret's sitting country and we utilized to person a portion and laughter and speech together.

"I deliberation ladies successful waiting person an receptor to the crushed too. They cognize what's going on. I deliberation present the crushed they don't possibly person them - they instrumentality a caput oregon idiosyncratic - is it's much nonrecreational now. But it was large fun."