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The Crown viewers conflicted over Jonny Lee Miller as John Major in season 5

‘I don’t want to fancy him,’ one worried viewer wrote

The Independent UK

Did Charles try to make the Queen abdicate? Truth behind The Crown's controversial storyline

Season five of The Crown shows Prince Charles meeting with Prime Minister John Major to discuss the Queen's abdication - but people who were there at the time have labelled the storyline a "barrel-load of nonsense"

Daily Mirror

The Crown: Did Prince Charles really have a meeting with John Major?

Major has recently called the Netflix series a ‘barrel-load of nonsense’

The Independent UK

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The Crown season five review: This Netflix show is the definition of first world problems

The drama was initially intended as a piece of historical fiction, but the longer it has gone on, the more tawdry it’s become

The Independent UK

Why is everyone in The Crown so sexy?

Is the Netflix hit’s relationship to controversy in direct proportion to the inappropriate attractiveness of its ensemble cast? Adam White investigates why a show about largely unsexy people is so ripe with sexy actors

The Independent UK

‘Inaccuracies’: Pro-royal lobby group urges boycott of The Crown amid ‘explosive’ premiere

The Australian Monarchist League says viewers should ‘withdraw’ support for The Crown and Netflix unless it corrects the record

The New Daily

Australian Monarchist League calls for boycott of The Crown and Netflix

AML says Netflix must ‘correct the record’ and add disclaimer to address ‘falsehoods’ about the royal family

The Guardian - AU

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Why Britain is in an uproar over ‘The Crown’ — and why it’s a tempest in a teapot

The people of the United Kingdom are in the midst of a challenging moment.

Los Angeles Times

Season five of The Crown has dropped in Australia. Here are some of its key talking points

Covering the phone tapping scandal, Charles and Diana's divorce and the Camilla affair, it was thought this season was going to make the new king look awful. But it could have been worse.

ABC News

Review: 'The Crown' is gentle on the queen’s ‘Annus Horribilis’

“The senior royals seem dangerously deluded and out of touch … and the Prince of Wales impatient for a great role in public life, not realizing his great asset is his wife,” says Prime Minister John Major (Jonny Lee Miller) in the first episode of the new season of "The…

Tribune News Service

Netflix's controversial hit The Crown returns to chronicle Prince Charles and Diana's marriage breakdown

The monarchy has entered a new era, casting an even brighter spotlight on The Crown. Here's everything you need to know about the controversial fifth season.

ABC News

Lorraine Kelly slams The Crown for 'inventing' scenes insisting 'there's enough drama'

Lorraine Kelly gave her verdict on the upcoming fifth season of The Crown as the Netflix hit returns to the streaming platform this week

Daily Mirror

'The Crown’ returns to blur the line between royals, fiction

“The Crown” returns Wednesday after a two-year absence from Netflix

The Independent UK

I never dreamed Netflix could leave me wincing in sympathy for the royal family

Mistimed, irresponsible and tacky, the latest series of The Crown is simply bad television

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Wales Online

Princess Diana actress insists The Crown is 'clearly fictional'

Former prime ministers Sir John Major and Sir Tony Blair have hit out at the series ahead of the new season

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Debicki on criticism towards The Crown: The show is clearly fictional

The Australian actress will portray Diana, Princess of Wales in the fifth series of the drama.

The Guardian - UK

The Crown season five review – it’s time for this bitty, boring show to end forever

Its cast is cartoonish, the plot is packed with dull speeches and multiple episodes could have been binned entirely. The royal drama has never been less relevant

Evening Standard

The Crown season 5 on Netflix review: the royals remain as relevant as ever, even when told they’re obsolete

Dramatised it may be, but The Crown conveys an awful lot of what actually happened

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The Independent UK

The Crown season five review: Part Tatler gossip column, part family psychodrama, this show is the definition of first world problems

The drama was initially intended as a piece of historical fiction, but the longer it has gone on, the more tawdry it’s become

Wales Online

Sir John Major and Sir Tony Blair hit out at The Crown ahead of new series

Former prime ministers unhappy with their portrayals in hit Netflix show

The Independent UK

Sir John Major and Sir Tony Blair hit out at The Crown ahead of upcoming series

Sir John wrote in a letter to The Telegraph that it ‘will be profoundly hurtful to a family who are still grieving’.

The Guardian - UK

From Tampongate to the Bashir bombshells: will King Charles III finally hit back at The Crown?

The Netflix hit is now plunging into inflammatory territory. Will the famously outspoken new monarch really simmer in silence? Does he have to – now Prince Harry is on the streamer’s payroll?

Wales Online

Rishi Sunak's car comes with a secret escape hatch

It also has a self-healing fuel tank and a tamper-proof exhaust

Wales Online

Tories will find it 'extremely difficult' to win next election, polling expert Sir John Curtice says

The next UK General Election is scheduled to be held no later than January 2025

The Independent UK

Tories will find it ‘extremely difficult’ to win election, says polling expert

Prof Sir John Curtice said the Conservatives are still a long way behind Labour despite some recovery under Rishi Sunak.

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