History Series / TheCrown2016

* DoorClosesEnding: The last shot of season six, and the series as a whole, shows Elizabeth exiting St George's Chapel through the West Door, which then closes itself to symbolise the Queen's eventual death.
* DoubleStandard:
** When Princess Margaret's husband Lord Snowdon has an affair with a much younger woman, Lucy Lindsay-Hogg, despite Margaret's complaints, the rest of the Royal Family doesn't care, and continues to be friendly with him. However, when Margaret is discovered to be having an affair with a much younger man, Roddy Llewellyn, the Royal Family harshly criticizes her and the Queen Mother calls her a "tramp".
** Prince Charles carries on a long-time affair before and during his marriage to Diana, going so far as to get a custom bracelet made for his mistress Camilla three days before his wedding to Diana. Despite criticizing his wife constantly, ignoring her phone calls, and making it clear that he prefers Camilla to her, he is enraged when she has numerous affairs of her own. He orders his protection officers to monitor her so he can bring evidence of her infidelity to his mother and secure a formal separation from his wife.
*** On Charles' end, there are hints that he's less outraged about the fact of her having the affairs, and more concerned about how her perceived lack of discretion might tarnish ''his'' image. Moreover, by this stage in their marriage he seems to be searching for a pretext to justify divorcing her. That said, there is certainly also a DoubleStandard at work as well.
** Another example is between Charles and Anne prior to their marriages. Whereas Charles is encouraged to date around and "sow his oats" before settling down, Elizabeth in particular is nonplussed at finding out Anne, in her mid-20s, has had "fun" with men. (Admittedly, in context, it might have been less that the Queen was shocked at her daughter's activities--of which she was probably vaguely aware in theory--than that they were with Andrew Parker Bowles.)

* DramaticIrony: In 'Ruritania', when Robin Janvrin - who has newly become the Queen's private secretary due to his predecessor feeling at odds with change - discusses the Queen's upcoming visits, they discuss the fact that Tony Blair is going to address the Women's Institute, and feel that no doubt it will be another triumph for him. [[EpicFail It most definitely was not]].

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: In Series 6 episode "Dis-Moi Oui", Diana and Dodi ostensibly head to Monte Carlo for an evening out. However, not only does the graffiti on the walls of the streets they pass through, and the pop-up street betting games presented, immediately signify that this is not scrupulously clean and well-ordered UsefulNotes/{{Monaco}}, but paparazzi-type press photographers are simply not allowed in the Principality and the very prevalent police would immediately shut down such action, as well as swiftly quelling the screaming throng that chase Diana and Dodi into a jewellers, and later down to their transfer boat at Port Hercules.

* DramaticIrony: In 'Ruritania', when Robert Fellowes offers his resignation on account of him being too set in his ways and unwilling to change tradition, he and the Queen comment on how Tony Blair has his finger on the pulse of public opinion, and no doubt his forthcoming speech to the Women's Institute will be another triumph for him. [[EpicFail It most definitely was not]].

*** Said almost word-for-word by Philip himself to William, after the death of Diana when William couldn't quite figure out why to hate Charles for it, but still did

* BookEnds: The series began with the marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. [[spoiler: It ends with Prince Charles finally marrying Camilla.]]

''The Crown'' is an award-winning Creator/{{Netflix}} original series which premiered on 4 November 2016. It follows the life of Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethII and that of her [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily family]], [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem ministers]], and [[UsefulNotes/TheMenOfDowningStreet governments]], from her wedding in 1947 until 2005, [[spoiler: just after the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles]].

''The Crown'' is an award-winning Creator/{{Netflix}} original series which premiered on 4 November 2016. It follows the life of Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethII and that of her [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily family]], [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem ministers]], and [[UsefulNotes/TheMenOfDowningStreet governments]], from her wedding in 1947 until 2003, just after her Golden Jubilee in 2002.

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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Although the series is well-researched in terms of costumes and character idiosyncracies, some major historical inaccuracies persist. The closer the show has got to the present day, the more of an issue this has become, to the point where cabinet ministers have gone on record as saying that Netflix should precede each episode with a warning about content being a fictional dramatisation of real-life events.
** There is a pervasive theme of Elizabeth resenting the position that her uncle's abdication placed her in, stating that she could have otherwise avoided the burden of the crown. In reality, Edward VIII was 42 years old at the time of the abdication with no children of his own, and Wallis Simpson was 40; even before he became king, it was considered unlikely that he would produce an heir of his own, which would have left Elizabeth in line for the crown, abdication or not. However, it would have been a couple of decades before she ascended the throne (the former Edward VIII died in 1972), not to mention her father would have probably lived longer.
** Philip's naturalization as a British subject is shown being concurrent with his creation as Duke of Edinburgh the day before his marriage to Elizabeth. His naturalization actually took place in March earlier that year, in part so that the public would get used to seeing him as ''British'' naval officer, rather than a foreign prince (although he'd been in the Royal Navy for eight years at that point, having joined as a cadet in 1939).
** Charles and Anne are shown attending a party at their parent's home in Malta celebrating Philip's promotion, when in fact they remained with their grandparents in Britain, while Elizabeth and Philip were in Malta.
** Preparing for a state dinner in 1953 with [[UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower President Eisenhower]], Elizabeth is told that he is worried about the "military-industrial complex". Eisenhower didn't use the phrase until his 1961 farewell speech.
** Prince Philip wears a medal commemorating Elizabeth's 1953 coronation while touring Africa in 1952.
** At Elizabeth's 1947 wedding, Philip's mother appears as an old woman in a nun's habit. She was in fact middle-aged and didn't join a convent until 1949. What probably happened is that a researcher for the show misstook a [[https://thedreamstress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Princess-Alice-of-Battenberg-the-mother-of-the-Duke-of-Edinburgh-attending-the-coronation-of-Queen-Elizabeth-II-wearing-her-nuns-habit.jpg photo of Princess Alice]] at Elizabeth's coronation as being from her wedding.
** Elizabeth accuses Winston Churchill of delaying her coronation by a year for political gain. In fact, it was customary for the coronation to take place more than a year after the accession to observe the mourning period for the late monarch. George VI had only five months from his accession to his coronation because it was originally planned for Edward VIII, who abdicated less than a year into his reign; the planned coronation simply went ahead with a new monarch.
** Philip is shown being resentful of having to kneel before Elizabeth at her coronation. While it is true that he resented not having any official role in the early years of his wife's reign, he was, and always has been, fully respectful of the crown and what it represents, and willingly took part in the ceremony with no fuss.
** The coronation is also compressed from the real event, showing the coronation oath being administered immediately before the anointing with holy oil, when the two events were actually about forty minutes apart in the service.
** Handel's Coronation Anthem ''Zadok the Priest'' is timed to the moment Elizabeth is crowned. As implied by its lyrics, this piece is actually sung during the anointing with holy oil, and the crowning is done in silence.
** Churchill changes his mind about reacting to the Great Smog after his young secretary Venetia Scott dies as a result of getting hit by a bus during it. Venetia was invented for the show. Additionally, London's above-ground public transport services all ceased during the Great Smog, for obvious reasons.
** Churchill is shown resigning shortly after Sutherland's portrait is unveiled. In reality, over four months passed between the two events.
** With regards to Churchill's stroke in June 1953, the series portrays him as lying to Elizabeth about the extent of his health decline. Historically, Elizabeth was well aware of his extreme ill health, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hope_Not Operation Hope Not]] was formulated as a reaction to this health crisis (although it would only be implemented more than a decade later, leading Lord Mountbatten to quip that Winston "kept living and the pallbearers kept dying"). During the incapacity of both Churchill and his deputy (Eden), the day-to-day business of government was overseen by the then Chancellor, R.A. Butler — who does not get a mention, in contrast to Lord Salisbury, a.k.a. Bobbety [[note]] the fifth Marquis of Salisbury, grandson of the third Marquis who was Prime Minister for thirteen years (spread over three terms in office) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries [[/note]].
** In relation to Lord Salisbury, the line "history teaches, never trust a Cecil" is anachronistic, as it is reckoned to have been originally said in reference to Bobbety's grandson (who, as Viscount Cranborne in 1998, went behind Tory leader William Hague's back to do a deal on reforming the House of Lords with Tony Blair).
** Churchill is depicted as openly holding his political rival UsefulNotes/ClementAttlee in contempt, even reciting the apocryphal quote "An empty taxi arrived and out stepped Atlee". when in fact the two men were [[FriendlyEnemy friendly rivals]] who had forged a close relationship in Churchill's War Cabinet.[[note]]Attlee's support--and that of his Labour No. 2 Arthur Greenwod--had been critical to Churchill fending off Lord Halifax in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_British_war_cabinet_crisis 1940 War Cabinet crisis]] precipitated by the imminent fall of France. Attlee and Greenwood's insistence on keeping Britain in the fight even after France's surrender was crucial at a time when a substantial chunk of Churchill's own Tories were sympathetic to Halifax's idea of seeking a separate peace with Hitler.[[/note]]
** [[http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38032464 As this BBC article revealed]], unlike the portrayals in the series, the Queen and the Cabinet under Sir Anthony Eden (Churchill's successor in 1955) did not object to Princess Margaret marrying Peter Townsend; their only stipulation was that Margaret renounce her place in the royal succession (so she would not become Queen in the very unlikely scenario of Elizabeth and all of her children dying), but she still would have kept the Princess title and all of her royal possessions and duties. It was Margaret who decided that she didn't want to marry him after all. Eden, himself a divorcee who had remarried, was actually quite sympathetic.
** Harold Macmillan really did go to see ''Beyond the Fringe'', and Peter Cook really did spot him in the audience and ad-lib his impersonation of Macmillan in order to humiliate the man. However, according to Jonathan Miller (one of Cook's fellow-performers), the response in the theatre was one of embarrassment because Cook had clearly gone too far, not the hysterical laughter depicted in the show.
** Charles is shown to be overly sensitive and miserable in every school he goes to. While he reportedly hated Gordonstoun with a passion and consciously chose not subject his sons to the same experience, he was actually quite happy attending primary school with other children his age and willingly took part in many physical activities. Furthermore, in the 1970s he [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/10/prince-charles-school-hits-back-crown-colditz-kilts-portrayal/ stated]] that he was glad that he attended Gordonstoun, and the toughness there was "all much exaggerated by report."
** Despite what "Paterfamilias" claims, there is no evidence that Philip ever had any difficulties during his time at Gordonstoun (he had in fact been a student at its German sister-school, Schule Schloss Salem, before the Nazis forced its Jewish founder to flee to Britain and found Gordonstoun). Also the implication that his sister Cecile and her family's tragic flight had anything to do with his supposed misbehaviour, causing his father to hold him responsible for their deaths, is complete fiction -- they were actually on their way to the wedding of Georg's brother, Prince Louis. It's even been claimed that Prince Philip considered suing the show's producers over the inaccurate portrayal of his sister's death.
** In a flashback in early Season 1 to David/Edward VIII's abdication speech, Wallis Simpson is shown being right there beside him as a supportive presence. In actuality, she was off at a friend's house in France, lying on a couch and sobbing as she listened to the speech over the radio.
** In Season 1, Wallis Simpson corrects a reporter who addresses her as "Your Royal Highness", pointing out that she is only entitled to be known by the title "Your Grace". While it's true that the Crown officially denied her the Royal Highness style, within her own household she was addressed as such.
** Lord Altrincham never had a private meeting with Elizabeth herself, with Martin Charteris being the closest he got. The show acknowledges this by Elizabeth insisting the meeting will forever remain secret from the public and they'll deny it if Altrincham tries to publicize it.
** In a flashback to the Second World War, Caucasian and African-American soldiers are portrayed as serving alongside each other. In reality, the US Army wasn't integrated until 1948, three years after the war ended.
** In a flashback to 1943, Elizabeth is told she's to become the heir apparent. She was never made the heir apparent[[note]]due to the chance, however slim, of her father having a son, either with her mother or with a subsequent wife should he become a widower and remarry, and that hypothetical brother taking precedence due to male-preference primogeniture which was the law in the Commonwealth realms until 2011[[/note]], and was always the heir presumptive, even when it became abundantly clear that she would inherit the crown. On the other hand it's possible that Tommy Lascelles is speaking somewhat loosely in this scene, meaning that she'd be treated as an heir apparent from that point forward, even if she technically wasn't.
** In "Olding", the Queen visits Churchill after his final stroke. In actual fact, she did not visit him at this time, by which he was reported to be incapable of holding a conversation. On this subject, the royal family is celebrating the birthday of Prince Henry (the Duke of Gloucester, younger brother of George VI) when Elizabeth is informed that Churchill just died. In reality, Prince Henry's birthday was on March 31, while Churchill had died on January 24. Prince Henry was also known within the family as "Harry" rather than Henry, although that might have been changed so as not to confuse audiences by having a very different Prince Harry to the modern-day one [[note]] which might also explain why Prince William of Gloucester, Prince Henry's rather charismatic son who was killed in a plane crash in 1972 at the age of 30, doesn't get so much as a mention; Prince Charles named his eldest son after him [[/note]].
** Another interesting criticism that's been made about "Olding" is how the show ''does not mention'' the fact that Anthony Blunt was later (in 1979) publicly exposed as having been a Soviet agent and stripped of his knighthood (in contrast with the use of the closing captions to explain what later happened to other one-episode characters like Lord Altringham and Michael Fagan). On the subject of Blunt, he actually confessed to having been a Soviet spy in April 1964 and the Queen was informed of this at that time -- which was several months before the general election which resulted in Harold Wilson becoming Prime Minister thanks to a narrow Labour victory. The notion that Blunt used knowledge of Prince Philip's supposed links to the Profumo scandal as a means of blackmailing the royal family (and, by extension, the British government) into not exposing him back in the 1960s has drawn criticism; in actual fact, the decision not to make Blunt's confession public was probably taken in order to prevent further embarrassment for the British intelligence services, as it had only been a year since Kim Philby's flight to Moscow.
** In "Margaretology", Princess Margaret is shown winning over President Johnson with a bawdy Limerick contest. There is no evidence such a contest happened. The timing of her being requested to do a state dinner is also different, as in reality the visit to the White House was in the itinerary long before she left England.
** In "Aberfan", Prince Philip visits the scene of the disaster, followed by the Queen several days later. In reality, the two visited Aberfan together, not separately. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Harold Wilson also uses the term "hypermarket", which was coined by a Frenchman two years later.]]
** In "Bubbikins", Philip is shown as being distant from his mother, objecting to her staying at the Palace and not bothering to visit her once she arrives. In actual fact, he was the one who encouraged her to move to London, and after she did he visited her regularly. Her interview with a republican-leaning journalist from ''The Guardian'' never happened; the journalist himself is a fictional character.
** In the same episode, Philip suffers a flashback to the day his mother was insitutionalized. In reality, not only was he much younger than portrayed (Finn Elliot who plays the young Philip is 17, when Philip was nine at the time), but he was not there that day, having taken out for the day.
** Also in "Bubbikins", when Adeane is listing the foreign broadcasters who are interested in the documentary, he mentions the [[Creator/TheABC Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]. At the time, it was known as the Australian Broadcasting ''Commission''. The ABC did not become a corporation until it was restructured in 1983.
** In "Coup", Lord Mountbatten is approached by a number of bankers and businessmen alarmed at Labour PM Harold Wilson's socialist policies. Their plan is to overthrow the elected British government, take it over themselves, and install Mountbatten as a figurehead ruler. He takes the plan seriously enough to approach the Queen for her blessing and is only dissuaded when Elizabeth tells him in no uncertain terms to knock it off. In reality, most accounts say that while Mountbatten was indeed presented with such a plan by Cecil King (the owner of the ''Daily Mirror'', ironically a ''very'' pro-Labour newspaper), he immediately called it treason and said he would have nothing to do with it.
** Princess Anne's love life is limited to her fling with Andrew Parker-Bowles, coinciding with Charles' relationship with the then Camilla Shand. In reality Anne was married to Mark Phillips in 1973, yet even during the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977, we see no mention of her husband. He finally appears in Season 4, albeit briefly, and their early relationship and wedding is never shown.
** Martin Charteris continues to appear as the Queen's private secretary in series 4 episodes set in the 1980s. In reality, he was replaced by Philip Moore in 1977.
** Roddy Llewellyn is shown abandoning Margaret after knowledge of their fling is leaked to the public, but in reality their relationship lasted eight years.
** While Lady Diana Spencer did meet Charles when he came to her estate to visit her sister, they met during a hunting party not while she was whimsically dressed as a forest creature for a Shakespearean production.
** The evening before Charles' and Diana's wedding Elizabeth tells Charles how her grandfather King George V entered an arranged marriage with the fiancee of his late elder brother, but gradually grew to love his wife. While it is true that George V's consort, Princess Mary of Teck, was hand-picked as a suitable future queen by Queen Victoria, in real life the marriage was very much a love match from the beginning. Charles' situation is more similar to that of George's elder brother, Prince Albert Victor, who was forced to end his engagement to his great love, the French Princess Helene of Orleans, when her father would not let her convert from Roman Catholicism.
** The show heavily implies Charles and Camilla's physical affair continued right through his early marriage to Diana. Charles, however, has staunchly insisted that his physical affair with Camilla ended in the late 1970s and did not resume until 1985. His emotional affair, on the other hand, did continue. However, during his engagement to Diana he's seen tearfully leaving Camilla's house before insisting to Diana that he's ended things with her.
** As for Diana, she's shown hooking up with Major James Hewitt [[note]] rumours persist that Hewitt, who met Diana as a result of being assigned to give her riding lessons ([[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer yes, really]]) is in fact Prince Harry's biological father, although Hewitt himself has always denied this, claiming that their affair did not start until 1986, two years after Harry was born; the fact that the two have a similar hair colour is a coincidence [[/note]] in Series 4, but doesn't enter into a relationship with another man until she meets Dr. Khan after her marriage to Charles has irretrievably broken down; another of her alleged lovers, the England rugby captain Will Carling, is AdaptedOut.
** It is unlikely that Prince Philip ever mocked Margaret Thatcher for her scientific background, given his own interest in the sciences.
** In "Favourites", the disappearance of Mark Thatcher during the Paris-Dakar rally is shown as coinciding with the start of the Falklands crisis. In reality, Thatcher was lost and found in January 1982, while the Argentinians first appeared at South Georgia Island in March 1982.
** In "Fagan", the Queen and Michael Fagan are depicted having a long conversation about the effects of Margaret Thatcher's policies before he gets arrested, but [[https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/michael-fagan-her-nightie-was-one-of-those-liberty-prints-down-to-her-knees-7179547.html in an interview in 2012]], Fagan himself said the Queen immediately ran out looking for security, and they never exchanged any words. Fagan also benefits from a very SympatheticPOV, whereas in real life he came across as something of a StalkerWithACrush towards the Queen, and was later in trouble with the law for dealing heroin. Which the closing credits for that episode do not mention.
** The episode "Terra Nullius" portrays Bob Hawke as openly hoping for an imminent Australian republic, and comparing the Queen to a pig in an interview on the Australian current affairs program ''4 Corners''. ''4 Corners'' itself responded that it was an inaccurate representation of the interview (even getting the date and location wrong), with Hawke saying in the real interview that while he'd like a republic, he didn't see it as a priority. Furthermore, the show misrepresents the concept of ''Terra Nullius'' as an extension of British imperial power over Australia, when in actuality it was the legal concept that declared the land of Australia as unoccupied prior to British rule (which was, of course, [[UsefulNotes/FirstAustralians inaccurate]]).
** The plot involving the Queen's cousins, Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, is largely inaccurate. The two women had been placed in a hospital for people with developmental disabilities by their mother (the Queen Mother's sister-in-law) in the 1940s, and until 1982 the Queen Mother genuinely believed that they were dead, quite possibly because they were mistakenly listed in ''Burke's Peerage'' as having died (whether this was an intentional act or not on the part of their mother, who most likely provided ''Burke's'' with this information, is ambiguous). After learning that they were actually still alive (a discovery that Princess Margaret and her friend Derek "Dazzle" Jenkins played no part in; in actual fact, the Queen Mother herself found out about their continued existence through the mental health charity Mencap, of which she was a patron), she sent money for toys and sweets to be bought for her nieces for their birthdays and Christmas.
*** The Queen Mother was also one of ten children, so the Queen had about eighteen biological maternal cousins alone. While Margaret's right to point out that Nerissa and Katherine are particularly close in age, most of their cousins were born within 10 years or so of them, and aside from the family of their mother's eldest sister, neither the Queen nor Margaret seemed particularly close to any of them.
** The fourth season finale, "War", has Margaret Thatcher, facing a serious threat to her power, meet with the Queen to ask for her to dissolve Parliament. Not only was no meeting between them held fitting this time period, but the idea of even Margaret Thatcher making such an outrageous demand is highly implausible to say the least.[[note]]That being said, just 20 and 30 years later (respectively) [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPrimeMinisters Stephen Harper]] and UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson successfully obtained prorogations under substantially similar circumstances and with substantially the same effect as Thatcher's (fictional) request for dissolution in the show. Johnson's request was later overturned by the UK Supreme Court, while Harper's was never brought before the courts.[[/note]] In the same episode, Diana's trip to New York is shown as as coinciding with Thatcher's resignation. In reality, the trip happened in 1989, while Thatcher resigned in 1990.
** In "Queen Victoria Syndrome", the opinion poll supposedly stating that half of the British public thought the Queen should abdicate actually stated that 9 in 10 people thought she was doing a good job, while 4 in 10 (less than half) thought she should abdicate ''at some point''. It was reported by ''The Sunday Times'' in early 1990, not August 1991 as stated on the show, and the phrase "Queen Victoria Syndrome" [[note]] a phrase that's actually used to refer to the passing of haemophilia through the bloodlines of some of her many descendants (she being a carrier of the gene that causes this disease, which is passed down in the female line but only affects men), and even then it is not exactly a commonly-used phrase [[/note]] was not mentioned in the article. It is true that Victoria experienced a steep decline in popularity midway through her reign, but this was mostly due to her extended period of mourning (nearly a decade) after the death of her husband Prince Albert, when she became something of a recluse and chose to seclude herself in royal residences rather than perform her duties as sovereign. Her popularity recovered after she began appearing in public again. In relation to this, UsefulNotes/JohnMajor has gone on record as saying that Prince Charles never invited him to discuss this opinion poll (which was in any case published several months ''before'' Major became Prime Minister) and did not lobby him to persuade the Queen to step down.
** "Mou Mou" makes it look as if the Fayeds acquiring Harrods (1985), putting up the money for ''Film/ChariotsOfFire'' (1981, with the series also showing it winning the Oscar the following year) and Wallis Simpson dying (1986) were close to each other.
** "Ipatiev House" portrays the British government's plan to evacuate the Romanovs as being concurrent with their execution; however, the evacuation plan was made in March 1917 (shortly after the Tsar abdicated) and the Romanovs were executed in July 1918. By the time the Romanovs had been moved to Ipatiev House on the outskirts of Yekaterinburg (a city sufficiently inland to make a ship-bound evacuation totally impossible), the Bolsheviks had seized power and to them, the notion of allowing the Tsar and his family to go into exile was unthinkable — Lenin fully intended to have them killed. Furthermore, the notion that Queen Mary made the decision not to save the Romanovs for personal reasons is unlikely [[note]] and is actually dismissed as such; YMMV as to how much you think this is only brought up so that Elizabeth can get one over on Penny, whose grasp of the IdiotBall on this subject seems somewhat out of character [[/note]] as it would have been George V who would have made the final decision (perhaps with input from his wife, most definitely through discussions with his private secretary Lord Stamfordham, but the actual decision would've been his); much as he liked his cousin, he was pragmatic enough to realise how politically dangerous it would be to have the Romanovs in exile in Britain [[note]] the British government actually preferred the idea of taking them to a neutral country like Denmark instead, but the Romanovs being evacuated from Russia on a ''British'' ship would have been inflammatory in and of itself[[/note]]. Back in the 1990s, the timeline of the Romanovs' remains being discovered and identified is heavily condensed, as the remains had been located before the Queen met Boris Yeltsin, and were not conclusively identified as being the remains of the Romanovs and their servants until several years after the Queen's visit to Moscow.
** In "Couple 31", Diana says that her ''Panorama'' interview scared Dr. Khan away. In actual fact, the interview happened in 1995, and Diana and Khan were together until 1997.
** Apart from many specific instances of artistic licence, the show indulges in repeated subtle and not-so-subtle hints that since the late 1940s, most of the senior members of the Royal family have been living in near-constant fear that the Monarchy is about to be abolished. Consequently, many family conversations have the underlying theme of "this is our last chance to survive, but only if we are on our best behaviour." In reality, once the major wave of post-WWII decolonisation was over, the monarchical regime in the UK itself and in most of the other Commonwealth realms [[note]]which for all intents and purposes are independent monarchies in personal union with the UK, although "Terra Nullius" seems to suggest that Australian Republicans are actually trying to win their country its independence [[/note]] was never seriously questioned, with only a handful of smaller island nations becoming republics in the 1970s and 80s [[note]]such as Trinidad and Tobago in 1976; interestingly, these "desertions" are never discussed in the series [[/note]]. Although episodes of anti-monarchical mood came and went in various segments of the society in many of the major Commonwealth realms during Elizabeth II's reign, there was never any serious republican movement in any of them until the late 1990s[[note]] And then, the Australian Republic referendum resulted in a decisive "No" vote in 2000)[[/note]]. Similarly, although there certainly have been attempts by the Royal family and many British Prime Ministers to make the Monarchy more approachable and more in tune with the Zeitgeist, no core member of the Royal is likely to have been seriously concerned that the system itself may come to an end.

** As for Diana, she's shown hooking up with Major James Hewitt [[note]] rumours persist that Hewitt, who met Diana as a result of being assigned to give her riding lessons, was in fact Prince Harry's biological father, although Hewitt himself has always denied this, claiming that their affair did but start until 1986, two years after Harry was born; the fact that the two have a similar hair colour is a coincidence [[/note]] in Series 4, but doesn't enter into a relationship with another man until she meets Dr. Khan after her marriage to Charles has irretrievably broken down; another of her alleged lovers, the England rugby captain Will Carling, is AdaptedOut.

* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: In season 6, Dodo's fiancée Kelly Fisher describes Diana as this, which is why she's very dismayed to learn that he and Diana have been vacationing together.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: In Series 6 episode "Dis-Moi Oui", Diana and Dodi ostensibly head to Monte Carlo for an evening out. However, not only does the graffiti on the walls of the streets they pass through, and the pop-up street betting games presented, immediately signify that this is not scrupulously clean and well-ordered UsefulNotes/{{Monaco}}, but paparazzi-type press photographers are simply not allowed in the Principality and the very prevalent police would immediately shut down such action, as well as swiftly quelling the screaming throng that chase Diana and Dodi into a jewellers, and later down to their transfer boat at Port Hercules.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: In Series 6 episode “Dis-Moi Oui”, Diana and Dodi ostensibly head to Monte Carlo for an evening out. However, not only does the graffiti on the walls of the streets they pass through, and the pop-up street betting games presented, immediately signify that this is not scrupulously clean and well-ordered UsefulNotes/{{Monaco}}, but paparazzi-type press photographers are simply not allowed in the Principality and the very prevalent police would immediately shut down such action, as well as swiftly quelling the screaming throng that chase Diana and Dodi into a jewellers, and later down to their transfer boat at Port Hercules.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Given the nature of the show, most of the characters are this, even if they are sometimes subject to some ArtisticLicenceHistory. Notable examples of fictional characters are Venetia Scott (Churchill's secretary in the first series) and Helen King (the Australian journalist who gets rather ... ''close'' to Prince Philip in the second series).

** Apart from many specific instances of artistic licence, the show indulges in repeated subtle and not-so-subtle hints that since the late 1940s, most of the senior members of the Royal family have been living in near-constant fear that the Monarchy is about to be abolished. Consequently, many family conversations have the underlying theme of "this is our last chance to survive, but only if we are on our best behaviour." In reality, once the major wave of post-WWII decolonisation was over, the monarchical regime in the UK itself and in most of the other Commonwealth realms [[note]]which for all intents and pruposes are independent monarchies in personal union with the UK, although "Terra Nullius" seems to suggest that Australian Republicans are actually trying to win their country its independence [[/note]] was never seriously questioned, with only a handful of smaller island nations becoming republics in the 1970s and 80s [[note]]such as Trinidad and Tobago in 1976; interestingly, these "desertions" are never discussed in the series [[/note]]. Although episodes of anti-monarchical mood came and went in various segments of the society in many of the major Commonwealth realms during Elizabeth II's reign, there was never any serious republican movement in any of them until the late 1990s (a period not covered in any season so far)[[note]] And then, the Australian Republic referendum resulted in a decisive "No" vote in 2000)[[/note]]. Similarly, although there certainly have been attempts by the Royal family and many British Prime Ministers to make the Monarchy more approachable and more in tune with the Zeitgeist, no core member of the Royal is likely to have been seriously concerned that the system itself may come to an end.

** There is a pervasive theme of Elizabeth resenting the position that her uncle's abdication placed her in, stating that she could have otherwise avoided the burden of the crown. In reality, Edward VIII was 42 years old at the time of the abdication with no children of his own, and Wallis Simpson was 40; even before he became king, it was considered unlikely that he would produce an heir of his own, which would have left Elizabeth in line for the crown, abdication or not. However, it would have been several decades before she ascended the throne (the former Edward VIII died in 1972), not to mention her father probably would have lived longer.

** Elizabeth accuses Winston Churchill of delaying her coronation by a year for political gain. In fact, it is customary for the coronation to take place more than a year after the accession to observe the mourning period for the late monarch. George VI had only five months from his accession to his coronation because it was originally planned for Edward VIII, who abdicated less than a year into his reign; the planned coronation simply went ahead with a new monarch.
** Philip is shown being resentful of having to kneel before Elizabeth at her coronation. While it is true that he resented not having any official role in the early years of his wife's reign, he was, and always has been, fully respectful of the crown and what it represents and willingly took part in the ceremony with no fuss.

** Handel's Coronation Anthem ''Zadok the Priest'' is timed to the moment Elizabeth is crowned. As implied by its lyrics, it is actually sung during the anointing with holy oil, and the crowning is done in silence.

** With regards to Churchill's stroke in June 1953, the series portrays him as lying to Elizabeth about the extent of his health decline. Historically, Elizabeth was well aware of his extreme ill health, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hope_Not Operation Hope Not]] was formulated as a reaction to this health crisis (although it would only be implemented more than a decade later, leading Lord Mountbatten to quip, "(Churchill) kept living and the pallbearers kept dying."). During the incapacity of both Churchill and his deputy (Eden), the day-to-day business of government was overseen by the then Chancellor, R.A. Butler — who does not get a mention, in contrast to Lord Salisbury, a.k.a. Bobbety [[note]] the fifth Marquis of Salisbury, grandson of the third Marquis who was Prime Minister for thirteen years (spread over three terms in office) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries [[/note]].

** In "Fagan", the Queen and Michael Fagan are depicted having a long conversation about the effects of Margaret Thatcher's policies before he gets arrested, but [[https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/michael-fagan-her-nightie-was-one-of-those-liberty-prints-down-to-her-knees-7179547.html in an interview in 2012]], Fagan himself said the Queen immediately ran out looking for security, and they never exchanged any words. Fagan also benefits from a very SympatheticPOV, whereas in real life he came across as something of a StalkerWithACrush towards the Queen, and was later in trouble with the law for dealing heroin.

*** The Queen Mother was also one of 10 children, so the Queen had about eighteen biological maternal cousins alone. While Margaret's right to point out that Nerissa and Katherine are particularly close in age, most of their cousins were born within 10 years or so of them, and aside from the family of their mother's eldest sister, neither the Queen nor Margaret seemed particularly close to any of them.

** Apart from many specific instances of artistic licence, the show indulges in repeated subtle and not-so-subtle hints that since the late 1940s, most of the senior members of the Royal family have been living in near-constant fear that the Monarchy is about to be abolished. Consequently, many family conversations have the underlying theme of "this is our last chance to survive, but only if we are on our best behaviour." In reality, once the major wave of post-WWII decolonisation was over, the monarchical regime in the UK itself and in most of the other Commonwealth realms [[note]]which for all intents and pruposes are independent monarchies in personal union with the UK, although "Terra nullius" seems to suggest that Australian Republicans are actually trying to win their country its independence [[/note]] was never seriously questioned, with only a handful of smaller island nations becoming republics in the 1970s and 80s [[note]]such as Trinidad and Tobago in 1976; interestingly, these "desertions" are never discussed in the series [[/note]]. Although episodes of anti-monarchical mood came and went in various segments of the society in many of the major Commonwealth realms during Elizabeth II's reign, there was never any serious republican movement in any of them until the late 1990s (period not covered in any season so far)[[note]] And then, the Australian Republic referendum resulted in a decisive "No" vote in 2000)[[/note]]. Similarly, although there certainly have been attempts by the Royal family and many British Prime ministers to make the Monarchy more approachable and more in tune with the Zeitgeist, no core member of the Royal is likely to have been seriously concerned that the system itself may come to an end.

''The Crown'' is an award-winning Creator/{{Netflix}} original series which premiered on 4 November 2016. It follows the life of Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethII and that of her [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily family]], [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem ministers]], and [[UsefulNotes/TheMenOfDowningStreet governments]], from her wedding in 1947 until her Golden Jubilee in 2003.