The Crown Fact Check 2023: Do you think the queen wanted to abdicate her throne?

The Crown Fact Check 2023

The Crown Fact Check. “The Crown”‘s final episode “The Crown” may cover the past as recent as however it doesn’t mean that it won’t be a bit off in its facts.

Season 6, which is part of the Netflix’s enduring queen Elizabeth II chronicle (played by Imelda Staunton) is a more current story of the British royal family than the earlier seasons. The six previous episodes (streaming right now) run between 1997 and 2005. They feature Prince William (Ed McVey) getting engaged to and marrying his future wife Kate Middleton (Meg Bellamy) as well as prince Harry’s (Luther Ford) scandals, as well as Prince Charles (Dominic West) and his long-time love Camilla Parker Bowles’ (Olivia Williams) wedding.

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However, how accurate is the creator Peter Morgan’s interpretation of contemporary time? Did there exist a plot in the background of Will and Kate’s fairy tale romance? Did the queen wish to abdicate? What was the number of bad decisions did Harry make?

What happened? Will Kate and Kate really meet? Did they reside in the same house as a group?

The show shows Will and Kate getting together by chance in the streets as they’re both teenagers and Diana is alive. In real life, the future couple were introduced in St. Andrews University in Scotland when they were both students at the time in 2001.

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“I think you said I actually went bright red when I met you and sort of scuttled off,” Kate recalls to Prince William during an interview in 2010 to announce their wedding. “(I was) feeling very shy about meeting you.”

As the show depicts, Will and Kate were initially friends and it took time for them to get romantically connected. They did eventually move into the same house with a bunch of friends similar to what other college students do, in 2002, and then became a couple officially (the show depicts this as occurring following the fact).

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Did Kate really attract the attention of Will through her appearance in a risky fashion show?

The fashion show as well as the dress with a see-through that “The Crown” depicts are both part of Will and Kate’s true story According to a the other St. Andrews alum and fashion designer Charlotte Todd, who designed the dress.

Todd’s task was to create an event for fashion called “The Art of Seduction,” “which is quite appropriate in the real sense. I was not aware of whom Kate Middleton was and I did not think she was in it. It was just a matter of randomness!” she told People in 2020. It’s unclear if Kate has picked the dress with intention to attract Will’s attention like “The Crown” depicts, we don’t be sure.

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The dress was auctioned for $125,000 in the year 2011.

Do you think Carole Middleton, Kate’s mother have a plan to pair her daughter with Prince William?

In one episode of Season 6, Kate accuses her mother (Eve Best) of plotting to put her in the footsteps of the next King by suggesting the same gap year travel and encouraging Kate to enroll at St. Andrews.

Royal reporter Tina Brown suggests a similar story in her book of 2022 “The Palace Papers.” Brown claims that Kate’s mother convinced her daughter to attend St. Andrews instead of Edinburgh University and “strategized” with Kate on ways to win Will back following the couple’s split in 2007. But, as with many royal stories, this book doesn’t contain any commentary from the people that were involved.

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Was Mohamed Al-Fayed accuse the British royal family and the government of orchestrating the deaths of Princess Diana as well as Dodi Fayed’s demise? Did there exist an investigation by the British inquiry?

Al-Fayed (Salim Daw) has publicly endorsed conspiracy theories regarding the deaths of Diana and his son, Dodi, for years. There have been numerous inquiries into the crash of the car during the time since 1997 and an inquest that ran from 2004-2006 from the London Metropolitan police that “The Crown” is a dramatization of (slightly off the timeline).

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Did princesses Elizabeth or Princess Margaret get away from Buckingham Palace to celebrate VE Day towards the end of World War II?

In a touching episode about princess Margaret’s (Lesley Manville) death, “The Crown” flashes back to 1940s. The show shows the young Elizabeth (Viola Prettejohn) and Margaret (Beau Gadsdon) fleeing from the royal palace in order to commemorate Victory in Europe Day, the day that World War II ended on the continent. They both danced in the secluded cheering crowds, and Elizabeth dancing swinging in a jazz club underground.

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The royal historian Hugo Vickers says this is partially authentic. “The princesses went out into the crowds on VE night,” Vickers claims. But they did it “with a group of escorts and with the full knowledge of the king.”

Do Will and Kate support Prince Harry’s Nazi costume for a ‘Colonials’ and Natives’ celebration?

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The year 2005 was the time that Prince Harry appeared in in a Nazi uniform for the costume for the “Colonials and Natives”-themed celebration. This was a major scandal that swept the globe and demanded apologies in the form of penance and apology from the young prince.

Why did he put on the outfit initially? It’s up to you who you are asking.

“The Crown “The Crown,” Harry visits a costume shop along with Will as well as Kate and suggests a Nazi costume. Kate is worried, apprehensive that it’s offensive. Will is more optimistic and believes that wearing it does not make him an Nazi or anything. He also says it’s actually a joke.

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In his memoir from 2023, “Spare,” Prince Harry says he was coerced to Will as well as Kate to put on the dress. “I phoned Willy and Kate, asked what they thought. Nazi uniform,” Harry wrote. “They both howled. Worse than Willy’s leotard outfit! Way more ridiculous! Which, again, was the point.”

Did the queen ever seriously think about abdicating prior to Charles as well as Camilla’s marriage?

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The final season in “The Crown” has Elizabeth contemplating her passing and what the next steps for her monarchy while the courtiers prepare her funeral, and her son Charles prepares to get married again. Elizabeth has a heated debate with herself, literally, since the actresses who portrayed her in earlier episodes (Olivia Colman as well as Claire Foy) return to be her inner self over whether she should continue governing into an older years. She ultimately decides to give up her position and the show ends by her leaving an edifice, sure of her choice.

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What if any of that really take place (minus ghosts of queen-actresses who have passed)? The thoughts and private life that the Queen has are difficult to prove or disprove. However, royal biographers and historians have maintained for a long time that the queen never thought about abdicating. “As an anointed queen, she could not do so,” Vickers states. “Had she been unable to fulfill her duties, a regent would have been appointed, as happened when George III fell ill (in the 1800s).”