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Lady Glenconner described the Netflix royal drama as a ‘complete fantasy’.

From so bad it made you wince to so iconic you couldn’t stop laughing, here are your decidedly mixed feelings about the latest season of the royal drama

The UK’s most active period of privatisation saw health and safety disasters and fatalities increase dramatically. In recently published research, we identified 27 multifatality disasters between 1979 and 1997 leading to 763 deaths. These figures were the highest compared with three other European countries.

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

Season five of the hit Netflix series, The Crown, has landed on our screens and with people binge watching the show and now awaiting season six, we thought we would take a look at some fact versus fiction.

Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Sir Tony Blair and Sir John Major attended the national Remembrance Sunday service - though Ms Truss did not lay a wreath during her 49-day premiership

The Crown returns with terrible timing and a great cast squandered; James Corden is the weak link in Jez Butterworth’s pitch-black comedy drama; and there’s a new snake in the jungle…

How much of the new Netflix hit is fact, and how much is complete and utter fiction?

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 eagerly-awaited fifth series of The Crown has finally dropped on Netflix charting the lives of the royals in the early 90s - and here we take a look at some of the season’s most controversial moments

The fourth episode of the fifth series sees the Queen, played by Imelda Staunton, reflect on the scandals and heartbreak of 1992 in her Ruby Jubilee speech