Prince Harry: Yes, I’ve seen The Crown. And I think…”

Judging from the first weeks of January it seems clear that 2023 is, for better or for worse, the year of the prince Harry who, after landing on Netflix with an uninteresting docu-series with his wife Meghan Markle, decided to up the ante with Spare, the autobiography that officially declares war on the Crown and the royal family to which it belonged until a few years ago, before giving up the title and moving to America in search of a peace of mind which, after all, he shouldn’t have missed too much, given who, since his departure from the Windsors, Harry is by choice more in the eye of the storm than ever. It remains that the promotion of Shoot is leading Harry to release several interviews and appear in various television programs including the Late Show by Stephen Colbert, who joked with the heir teasing him about a question that the public has always wondered about: whether or not he has seen The Crown.

“Yes, I saw something The Crown», replied Harry specifying: «The oldest things and the newest things». In the course of the conversation, however, the Duke of Sussex was also asked if, looking at the events narrated in the series, he has ever focused on them with the intention of verifying their veracity. “Yes, actually I do. Which, by the way, is another reason why it’s so important that the story be correct.”Harry replied nonchalantly, explaining that he had been attentive to the truth of the facts even when writing Shooton which the royal family has not yet spoken, generating a deafening silence which, we imagine, does not sit well with Harry, who may have agreed to participate in the whole operation for the sole purpose of getting a reaction from a family whom in the book he describes as cold, detached, sometimes ruthless.

Returning to The Crown, it is clear to everyone how much the public is interested in the reaction of the British royals to the Peter Morgan series, even if well-informed palace sources reported that Queen Elizabeth herself enjoyed watching it on Sundays, in front of a good cup of tea. It remains that the English newspapers have reported, over the years, the growing disappointment by several family members against a series that, while relying on a real macro-trace, often worked on fantasy. It is said that William, Harry’s prime target in Shoothe would have expressed his disinterest towards The Crownand that the current king Carlo yes it would be shocked at how he was portrayed in the seriesThis is an indiscretion reported by Anas Sarwar, a Scottish politician close to the monarch. Beyond the positions taken, Prince Harry underlined throughout the interview how easy it is to believe what the media report, a reason that would have led him, even to refute what is narrated in The Crownto engage in the service of truth.

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