The final season of The Crown hit Netflix last month and was met with mixed reviews. But it’s not just critics and audiences who had complicated feelings regarding the series. A new royal book sheds light on what Prince William thinks of The Crown, and we’re not at all surprised by how he reportedly feels.
Royal biographer Robert Hardman’s new book The Making of a King: King Charles III and the Modern Monarchy alleges William’s seeming annoyance with the series, which chronicles the reign of Queen Elizabeth II from her ascension to the throne in 1952 until 2005. “The Prince…rolls his eyes when people say that ‘it’s just drama,’” a source close to the Prince of Wales shared with Hardman in an excerpt printed in People, via the Daily Mail. “Yet he will not give it any greater publicity by complaining. He doesn’t like the idea of being seen as a complainer all the time.”
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This isn’t the first time we’ve gotten some insight into how Prince William might feel about the Emmy-winning series. Back in October, a report surfaced that suggested the future king was “totally sickened” by one particular aspect of the final season. The Prince of Wales reportedly found it “incredibly hurtful” to “have his mother exploited over and over again in this tawdry fashion” in the last installment of the series.
The first half of The Crown‘s final season chronicles Princess Diana’s last days before her tragic death in Paris in August 1997. A few of the final episodes have Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) visit Prince Charles (Dominic West) and Queen Elizabeth (Imelda Staunton) individually for some sort of imaginary conversations. It did not sit well for some audiences.
Indeed, during it’s six-season run from 2017 to 2023, The Crown definitely ruffled some feathers. But now that the series is finally over, perhaps this will be the last time we wonder how Prince William felt about the drama series that depicted his family. We can only imagine he and other royal family members are ready to move on.
Before you go, click here to see the best photos of Princess Diana playing with William and Harry.
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