Netflix faces criticism in the UK ahead of the release of an episode about the Duke of Edinburgh’s infidelity.
Season 5 The crown may be explosive. According to the channel’s tabloids, the Netflix-branded production will dramatize Prince Philip’s alleged extramarital affair with one of his very (also?) close friends, one Penny Brabourne, Countess Mountbatten of Burma. What has Britons gnashing their teeth, still reeling from the death of Elizabeth II.
In the video, The crown The first teaser for season 5
In particular, we will see the Duke of Edinburgh, played by Jonathan Pryce (age 75), teaching riding to Lady Penny and Natasha McElhone (age 52) himself, and confiding in her about his “problems” as a couple. Problems related to the fact that he and his wife will “move in different directions”.
“Cruel garbage”.
Real name Penelope Knatchbull, ‘Penny Brabourne’, was one of Prince Philip’s closest friends, who died on 9 April 2021. So close that the tabloids have often commented on the more than friendly history between the two without ever being proven. However, Netflix did not hesitate to rely on this adultery in the new season The crownairs from November 9.
“It’s cruel rubbish,” says the Queen’s former press secretary, Dickie Arbiter. Sun . “To come just weeks after the nation buried Her Majesty, who now rests next to Prince Philip, is very unpleasant,” laments a former palace staffer. Then dot the i’s. “The truth is, Penny was a long time friend of the whole family. Netflix doesn’t care about people’s feelings. Same story by Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of the magazine majesty. “It’s very tasteless,” he says. It’s fiction. There’s no way he would [le prince Philip] discussed her marriage with anyone.”
Talk about an idyll
During the 1990s, the period that will encompass this new burst of episodes, Prince Philip did spend a lot of time with Penelope Knatchbull, who is 32 years his junior. “There have been a few raised eyebrows and other rumors about this relationship, but Philip and Penny insist they are just friends,” an unnamed source told The Daily Mail in August. Sun . “The creators The crown believe that this relationship is worth exploring and that the hiring of an experienced actress like Natasha reflects the importance of this role,” the platform in turn promotes.
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Penelope Meredith Mary Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, was born Eastwood on April 16, 1953 in London, far from royalty. His father, Reginald Eastwood, was a butcher who became a wealthy businessman, founding Angus Steakhouse restaurants. Raised in Switzerland, he graduated from the London School of Economics in 1976. Only three years later he entered the British aristocracy.
On 20 October 1979, aged 26, she married Norton Knatchbull, Lord Romsey, son and heir of Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess of Burma and John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne. And so ties the knot with none other than Prince Philip’s godson. The wedding takes place in Ramsey Abbey, where Prince Charles, who was the first heir to the throne of England at the time, appears as the groom’s witness.
Drama and Philip’s support
Penny, as her friends call her, and her husband have three children: Nicholas, Lord Brabourne (born 15 May 1981), Lady Alexandra (born 5 December 1982) and the Honorable Leonora (born 25 June 1986). in). On October 22, 1991, the family faced a terrible tragedy: little Leonora, only 5 years old, died of kidney cancer. It was in the wake of this tragic event that Penny received support from Prince Philip and the Queen, and deeper bonds were established between Lady Brabourne and the Duke of Edinburgh. Their friendship is strengthened around a shared passion: chariot racing. A discipline that the Duke of Edinburgh introduced to his friend in 1994. He even became her partner during equestrian competitions. Despite their 32-year age difference, they will therefore be inseparable.
During the last years of Prince Philip’s life, the Countess visited him at Wood Farm, a cottage on the edge of the Sandringham estate in Norfolk. This is where the “grandfather” of Princes William and Harry spent most of his time after announcing his retirement in August 2017. After forty-six years of friendship, Lady Penny will be with Prince Philip until her death. As such, he was part of a very small committee (30 people) invited to his funeral on April 17, 2021. The only one who wasn’t part of the royal family.
Source: Le Figaro
