Netflix’s “The Crown"has famously divided fans of the royal family.
For these royal fans, the show takes too many liberties.
One of the main gripes of some fans is thedepiction of Prince (now King) Charles.
In fact, even Charles himself allegedly derided actor Josh O’Connor’s portrayal in the Netflix show.
As for O’Connor, he has been open about the show’s dramatic embellishments.
“We are creating a work of fiction, albeit based in some reality.
“After a time, you just got to crack on and create something for yourself.”
In other words, “The Crown” is ultimately a work of fiction inspired by reality.
So just how much did they get right about the new king and how much did they get wrong?
He isdepictedas a shy, quiet boy whose tentativeness is met with harshness from his parents.
In reality, it’s unlikely that Charles' parents were actually this cruel.
In the show, the young boy hates his time at the school and is ruthlessly bullied.
It seems there is some truth to this depiction.
magazine, as a child, Prince Charles even wrote, “The people in my dormitory are foul.
Goodness, they are horrid.
I don’t know how anybody could be so foul.”
However, years later, Charles expressed some fondness for his old school.
It taught me to accept challenges and take the initiative” (viaGrampian Online).
As it turns out, that scene was entirely made up.
In the show, Charles receives a letter on the day of Mountbatten’s death.
As show creator Peter Morgan told the official “The Crown Podcast,” that letter never happened.
All of this was far from the truth, , Vickers claimed.
“And we were close; I was around him a lot.”
Instead of being angry and loud, Harrold said, “He’s strong, powerful, and compassionate.
And I think he’ll make an amazing king.”
“Josh O’Connor plays Prince Charles as a rather uncaring, cold person,” he toldThe Sun.
“And I’m afraid that’s what I saw behind closed doors.”
However, Charles reportedly ended their relationship when Sarah made a comment to Woman’s Own about the Prince.
“There is no chance of my marrying him.
I’m not in love with him.”
He is there to visit her sister, Sarah.
The pair peer at each other from behind large floral arrangements in the empty room.
According to Diana, they met “in the middle of a plowed field.”
And great fun and bouncy and full of life and everything” (via theNational Post).
What we do see is a lot of chaperones and guarded conversations.
After that, they become engaged fairly quickly.
In real life, chances are that the couple did have some alone time together.
In fact, the conversation about Lord Mountbatten reportedly happened in private and went very differently.
Apparently, the pair found themselves sitting on a bale of hay and Diana expressed her sympathies.
“It was strange.
In real life, the proposal was probably pretty similar.
“There was never anything tactile about him,” Diana told her biographer.
“Anyway, so he said: ‘Will you marry me?’
However, according tootherreports, the Prince did manage to get down on one knee.
According to many reports, this is all true.
“She only saw him eight times, but Charles continued regular therapy until 1995.”
Apparently, Charles even has a bust of McGlashan in his home in Highgrove (via theDaily Mail).
According to most accounts, Charles was fairly jealous in real life, too.
According to Paul Burrell, Diana’s butler and friend, Charles wasn’t always very supportive.
And that’s the whole problem.”
According to Burrell, everything “The Crown” showed about the pair’s Australia trip was true.
Does he ever do an engagement?
Does he ever actually achieve anything?
No, they didn’t show a single thing that he does.”
According to Vickers, Charles has always spent most of his time working for the royal family.
He’s lived with crofters on funny little islands up in Scotland.
He’s gone on government departments.
He’s traveled around the Commonwealth.
He set up the Prince’s Trust."
According to some experts, this timeline isn’t quite true.
“This is false,” Sally Bedell Smith toldVanity Fair.
“He went to Buckingham Palace.
Charles and Diana didn’t move into Highgrove until late 1981.”
However, according to some royal biographers, this bias toward Diana hides the truth of their relationship.
