The royal family series "The Crown" has accumulated gratitude for its actors, but it has hundreds of inaccuracies and is almost humiliating to living or dead individuals recently.
The new Neflix series looks like a fabrication and insult. Screenwriter, Peter Morgan, admits:
"Sometimes you have to abandon accuracy, but you must never abandon truth."
But which parts were true and which were false? It was a false story. The words and actions of living individuals were fabricated to fit a plot that could have been written by Diana's greatest supporters.
Historian Hugo Vickers has already detailed eight complete fictions in the new series, all royal family cartoons in the worst possible light.
False history is reality hijacked as propaganda. As Morgan implies, his film may not be accurate, but its purpose is to share a deeper truth with its audience: that the royal family behaved like animals to Diana. Will we be further told that they were the ones who actually killed him?
When millions of viewers are told that both Diana and Thatcher were humiliated by the royal family in Balmoral, we should not rely on someone like Vickers to answer that this is completely untrue. The correction will pass millions of viewers.
Privacy and defamation laws have been in place for years to protect individuals from increasing surveillance and intrusion into their personal lives. Most people support them and a growing number use them.
"The Crown" has taken her liberties based on the well-known and sensitive reluctance of the royal family to go to court. This is a cowardly artistic license.
False history is embedded false news. Of course, a movie, a creation, may have elements of fiction or imagination, but it must have a limit and an adjustment, or in case the content has so much fake news, at least display an icon at the top of the screen : "Fiction".
Adapted from Simon Jenkins.
Source: The Guardian
