Friends of the Queen Mother are said to be “horrified” by how she has been portrayed on Netflix’s The Crown.
It has been said that the show portrays her as doing the “polar opposite” of her real-life actions.
Royal historian and biographer Gareth Russell spoke about the Queen Mother’s portrayal on The Crown on True Royalty’s talk show, The Royal Beat.
Russell, author of Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, said:
“The Crown presented the Queen Mother as so unrelentingly dour. Some of the people I spoke to, they were quite upset, particularly [with her] portrayal in season three and four. I think a lot of people who had known the Queen Mother were fairly horrified by how she was presented. Season one, they didn’t think was too far off the mark; season two, they were starting to worry; season three, they were worried; season four, they were horrified. One of them said, ‘By season four, anything The Queen Mother does on screen, you can assume the real one did the opposite’.”
Ingrid Seward, Editor-in-Chief of Majesty Magazine, spoke of the Queen Mother’s relationship with King Charles III and her thoughts on his relationship with Queen Camilla: “When Camilla and Charles made [their relationship] more formal, [the Queen Mother] was not pleased at all. Charles never would have married Camilla had his grandmother been alive.”
All this and more on the Queen Mother are now available on True Royalty.
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