“If Charles III could meet everyone, he would be very popular,” says royal photographer Arthur Edwards.

The crown not only gains followers. If the Netflix series strives to tell the story of the Windsors as closely as possible, some experts regret that fiction sometimes prevails over reality. This is the case of the photographer SunArthur Edwards, who followed the affairs of the royal family for more than forty-five years.

“Their lives have been dramatic to say the least, so why? The crown Does he persist in inventing things that never happened?’ he teases in his tabloid columns. “I’ve watched the first two seasons and there’s no doubt that these are great actors and the scripts are well written. But I had to stop watching because the fictional scenes they added made my blood boil. I just wish they would issue a disclaimer that some of this information is untrue.”

“It’s pure fiction”

At 83, Arthur Edwards is undoubtedly Fleet Street’s most enduring and popular royal photographer. As mentioned THE: world As of 2022, she has over 200 international tours in over 120 countries, seven weddings, four funerals and seven royal births. Being so close to the Windsors, it’s therefore very easy to tell what is (or isn’t) a figment of the imagination of the screenwriters; The crown. The photographer takes as an example several scenes described during the seasons, which he says were created from scratch.

According to Netflix, the day before she became queen, Princess Elizabeth, played by Claire Foy, and Prince Philip were attacked by an elephant in the Kenyan bush. Philip, played by Matt Smith, stares at the animal until it leaves. It is pure fiction. It has been claimed that the Queen did not want to visit the Welsh village of Aberfan, where the local school was engulfed by mining waste, killing 116 children and 28 adults in 1966. I was told the Queen never looked. The crown and I totally understand why.”

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“Charles doesn’t deserve it”

But what particularly angers Arthur Edwards is “the appalling way the show is treating Prince Charles”, who will ascend to the throne of England in September 2022 after the death of Elizabeth II. “The crown is broadcast all over the world and because of this series, millions of people think that Charles is gloomy and unhappy. He does not deserve it. If King Charles could meet everyone in person, he would be extremely popular.”

When Charles returned from Scotland after his mother’s death and got off the plane, he was overcome with grief;

Arthur Edwards

In the first episode of season 5 The crownDubbed the Queen Victoria Syndrome, Charles conspires with former UK Prime Minister John Major to force his mother’s abdication. The latter, in power from 1990 to 1997, immediately expressed his displeasure with the Netflix show, denouncing “a barrel of completely bogus nonsense peddled for maximum dramatic effect”. What Arthur Edwards confirms. “Every time I saw Prince Charles with his mother, they were fantastically warm. I remember at the diamond jubilee he called her “mommy” and kissed her hand. You don’t do that with someone you want to get rid of. Charles once told me. “I never, ever say ‘when I’m king’ because that’s when my mother dies.” And I was there, in Northolt, west London, when he came back from Scotland after his mother’s death and got off the plane. He was overcome with grief.’

Final season

the last season of The crown will be divided into two parts: one will be available from November 16, and the second from December 14. It would lead to the death of Lady Diana in Paris in 1997 and culminate in the marriage of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, celebrated in 2005. Expected at a turning point due to controversy surrounding the presentation of Lady Death. These new episodes will also spark a reunion between Prince William (Ed McVeigh) and Kate Middleton (Meg Bellamy).