A right Royal bungle! Hit Netflix show The Crown gets year wrong in Royal Variety Performance storyline for next season
It’s a drama which prides itself on showing the ‘truth’ about the Royal Family.
But The Crown admits getting the details wrong occasionally – and it blundered when portraying the Queen at a Royal Variety Performance for the next season of the drama.
A blue poster for the performance at the Lyceum Theatre in London dates it as 1984 – but the Queen did not attend that year’s show.
She was represented by the Queen Mother along with Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
The creators of The Crown have admitted that they blundered when portraying the Queen at a Royal Variety Performance for the next season of the drama. Pictured: Actress Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown
Pictured: The Queen meeting actress Joan Collins and musical star Sarah Brightman at the Royal Variety Performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1985
The episode shows the Queen meeting actress Joan Collins and musical star Sarah Brightman.
The hit Netflix drama’s makers have made no secret in the past of the fact that they sometimes use a healthy dose of artistic licence with storylines, but they usually aim for correct dates.
The Crown creator Peter Morgan previously admitted that he sometimes had to surrender historical accuracy for the sake of the plot. He also confessed that ‘of course, I get it wrong’ on occasions.
He insisted: ‘My view is that an audience is so sensitive and has such fine instincts that, if an audience rejects it, then it’s probably wrong. Even if you don’t know the facts, you can smell when something is bogus.
‘We do our very, very best to get it right, but sometimes I have to conflate [incidents]. You sometimes have to forsake accuracy, but you must never forsake truth.’
Meanwhile, Oscar winner Olivia Colman, 46, is getting ready to abdicate her role as the Queen after two seasons of playing her.
The makers admitted that the Queen he did not attend that year’s show and was represented by the Queen Mother along with Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Pictured: Wrong date on The Crown poster
The actress wore a diamond-encrusted crown, an embellished silver gown and white gloves while sporting the first tufts of grey hair as she portrayed the monarch in her late 50s for the Royal Variety episode in season four.
Earlier this year, Morgan revealed that the show will finish with season five, which will take the monarchy ‘into the 21st century’.
Imelda Staunton, 64, will take over from Miss Colman as the Queen.