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The Crown fans feel ‘very old’ as they realise who John Major actor is

Netflix’s royal drama has returned for its penultimate season

Manchester Evening News

I can forgive The Crown for jazzing up the facts – but not for being so horribly clunky

When covering the royals, we often talk about the family ‘soap opera’. The conversations here are straight out of a poor one, says Stephen Bates, the Guardian’s former royal correspondent

The Guardian - UK

Pro-monarchy group calls for Netflix boycott over The Crown's royal 'falsehoods'

A PRO-MONARCHY group in Australia have called for a boycott of Netflix's hit series The Crown as a row over the show's accuracy mounts.

The National (Scotland)

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The Crown viewers conflicted over Jonny Lee Miller as John Major in season 5

‘I don’t want to fancy him,’ one worried viewer wrote

The Independent UK

Did Charles try to make the Queen abdicate? Truth behind The Crown's controversial storyline

Season five of The Crown shows Prince Charles meeting with Prime Minister John Major to discuss the Queen's abdication - but people who were there at the time have labelled the storyline a "barrel-load of nonsense"

Daily Mirror

The Crown: Did Prince Charles really have a meeting with John Major?

Major has recently called the Netflix series a ‘barrel-load of nonsense’

The Independent UK

The Crown season five review: This Netflix show is the definition of first world problems

The drama was initially intended as a piece of historical fiction, but the longer it has gone on, the more tawdry it’s become

The Independent UK

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Why is everyone in The Crown so sexy?

Is the Netflix hit’s relationship to controversy in direct proportion to the inappropriate attractiveness of its ensemble cast? Adam White investigates why a show about largely unsexy people is so ripe with sexy actors

The Independent UK

‘Inaccuracies’: Pro-royal lobby group urges boycott of The Crown amid ‘explosive’ premiere

The Australian Monarchist League says viewers should ‘withdraw’ support for The Crown and Netflix unless it corrects the record

The New Daily

Australian Monarchist League calls for boycott of The Crown and Netflix

AML says Netflix must ‘correct the record’ and add disclaimer to address ‘falsehoods’ about the royal family

The Guardian - AU

Why Britain is in an uproar over ‘The Crown’ — and why it’s a tempest in a teapot

The people of the United Kingdom are in the midst of a challenging moment.

Los Angeles Times

Season five of The Crown has dropped in Australia. Here are some of its key talking points

Covering the phone tapping scandal, Charles and Diana's divorce and the Camilla affair, it was thought this season was going to make the new king look awful. But it could have been worse.

ABC News

Review: 'The Crown' is gentle on the queen’s ‘Annus Horribilis’

“The senior royals seem dangerously deluded and out of touch … and the Prince of Wales impatient for a great role in public life, not realizing his great asset is his wife,” says Prime Minister John Major (Jonny Lee Miller) in the first episode of the new season of "The…

Tribune News Service

Netflix's controversial hit The Crown returns to chronicle Prince Charles and Diana's marriage breakdown

The monarchy has entered a new era, casting an even brighter spotlight on The Crown. Here's everything you need to know about the controversial fifth season.

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Daily Mirror

Lorraine Kelly slams The Crown for 'inventing' scenes insisting 'there's enough drama'

Lorraine Kelly gave her verdict on the upcoming fifth season of The Crown as the Netflix hit returns to the streaming platform this week

The Independent UK

'The Crown’ returns to blur the line between royals, fiction

“The Crown” returns Wednesday after a two-year absence from Netflix

The Guardian - UK

I never dreamed Netflix could leave me wincing in sympathy for the royal family

Mistimed, irresponsible and tacky, the latest series of The Crown is simply bad television

Wales Online

Princess Diana actress insists The Crown is 'clearly fictional'

Former prime ministers Sir John Major and Sir Tony Blair have hit out at the series ahead of the new season

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The Independent UK

Elizabeth Debicki on criticism towards The Crown: The show is clearly fictional

The Australian actress will portray Diana, Princess of Wales in the fifth series of the drama.

The Guardian - UK

The Crown season five review – it’s time for this bitty, boring show to end forever

Its cast is cartoonish, the plot is packed with dull speeches and multiple episodes could have been binned entirely. The royal drama has never been less relevant

Evening Standard

The Crown season 5 on Netflix review: the royals remain as relevant as ever, even when told they’re obsolete

Dramatised it may be, but The Crown conveys an awful lot of what actually happened

The Independent UK

The Crown season five review: Part Tatler gossip column, part family psychodrama, this show is the definition of first world problems

The drama was initially intended as a piece of historical fiction, but the longer it has gone on, the more tawdry it’s become

Wales Online

Sir John Major and Sir Tony Blair hit out at The Crown ahead of new series

Former prime ministers unhappy with their portrayals in hit Netflix show

The Independent UK

Sir John Major and Sir Tony Blair hit out at The Crown ahead of upcoming series

Sir John wrote in a letter to The Telegraph that it ‘will be profoundly hurtful to a family who are still grieving’.

The Guardian - UK

From Tampongate to the Bashir bombshells: will King Charles III finally hit back at The Crown?

The Netflix hit is now plunging into inflammatory territory. Will the famously outspoken new monarch really simmer in silence? Does he have to – now Prince Harry is on the streamer’s payroll?

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