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Prince Harry Jokingly Confesses He "Fact Checks" The Crown
Prince Harry is, rather literally, a royal watcher.
The Duke of Sussex stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert connected Jan. 10, wherever helium was asked by big Stephen Colbert if he's ever watched The Crown, the Netflix play astir the reign of Harry's precocious grandmother Queen Elizabeth II—and the controversies and scandals wrong the royal family. And helium admitted, "I person really watched The Crown."
When asked which seasons he's watched, Harry said, "The older worldly and the much caller stuff." So...all 5 seasons?
Stephen, half-jokingly, followed up by asking Harry if helium information checks the show—which has often run into contention for its mentation of events—to which Harry responded by pulling retired a fake pen and insubstantial and taking notes.
"Yes," helium responded, "I do, actually."
Harry, on The Late Show promoting his memoir Spare, past pointed to his publication connected Stephen's table and said, "By the way, different crushed wherefore it's truthful important that past has it right."
(For the record, we did our ain information checking of The Crown's 5th season, which you tin work here.)
This isn't the archetypal clip Harry's talked astir viewing the deed Netflix series. He was antecedently asked astir tuning into The Crown during an quality connected The Late Late Show with James Corden successful February 2021.
"It's fictional, but it's loosely based connected the truth," helium told James Corden astatine the time. "I americium mode much comfy with The Crown than I americium seeing the stories written astir my household oregon my woman oregon myself. Because it's the quality between, that is evidently fiction, instrumentality it however you will, but this is being reported connected arsenic information due to the fact that you're supposedly news. I person a existent contented with that."
For the 4th play of The Crown—which documents the royal household from 1979 done the aboriginal 1990s—introduced Princess Diana (then played by Emma Corrin), subsequently casting actors arsenic young versions of Harry and his brother Prince William.
All 5 seasons of The Crown are disposable to watercourse connected Netflix. The sixth season, which will chronicle the tragic decease of Diana—now played by Elizabeth Debicki—is presently successful production.
For much royal reactions to The Crown's melodramatic re-telling of events, support scrolling.
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Queen Elizabeth II
According to Matt Smith, who played Queen Elizabeth II's husband Prince Philip connected seasons 1 and 2 of The Crown, the precocious monarch did successful information ticker the Netflix play astir her illustrious reign. Following the Queen's passing successful September, Smith told Today, "I heard the queen had watched it, and she utilized to ticker it connected a projector connected Sunday night, apparently."
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Prince Philip
Philip connected the different hand? Smith besides revealed that helium heard the Duke of Edinburgh, who passed distant successful April 2021, had no involvement successful the critically acclaimed drama. "A person of excavation sat adjacent to him at a meal once," Smith shared with Today, "and my person couldn't defy by the extremity of the meal, helium was like, ‘Philip, I person to ask, person you watched The Crown?' And apparently he turned astir to him and said, 'Don't beryllium ridiculous.'"
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King Charles III
According to an August 2022 study by Daily Mail, King Charles III told Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar "Hello, bully to conscionable you all. I'm obscurity adjacent however they represent maine connected Netflix."
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Queen Consort Camilla
Charles' wife Camilla has besides queued up The Crown. A Vanity Fair root shared successful 2020, "She has watched it, of people she has and I judge [Charles] has too. I don't deliberation she has immoderate existent contented with it."
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Prince William
Prince William has not watched the show, however. Olivia Colman, who played Queen Elizabeth II successful seasons 3 and 4 of The Crown, shared connected The Graham Norton Show that the caller Prince of Wales gave her "a firm, 'No,'" erstwhile asked if he tuned in.
There's nary connection if his wife, Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, has watched the series.
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Prince Harry
During a 2021 appearance connected James Corden's The Late Late Show, Prince Harry confirmed that helium had seen episodes of the series. King Charles III's younger lad said the amusement gave viewers a "rough thought about" royal life, adding, "What that lifestyle, what the pressures of putting work and work supra household and everything else, what tin travel from that."
In fact, the Duke of Sussex said he'd alternatively ticker The Crown than work what the tabloids constitute astir his family. "Because it's the quality betwixt that is evident fiction," helium noted, "take it however you will, but this is being reported connected arsenic information due to the fact that you're supposedly news. I person a existent contented with that."
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Meghan Markle
And it's not conscionable Prince Harry who has tuned into The Crown. Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, told Oprah Winfrey successful March 2021 that she's "watched immoderate of it."
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Princess Anne
In an ITV documentary peculiar for her 70th birthday—titled Anne: The Princess Royal At 70—Queen Elizabeth's girl Princess Anne shared that she had watched immoderate of the aboriginal seasons, calling them "quite interesting".
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Princess Eugenie
During a 2017 lawsuit successful London, Princess Eugenie reportedly revealed that she did ticker Netflix's The Crown. "It is filmed beautifully," the princess, according to Daily Mail, told attendees astatine the China Exchange. "The euphony is wonderful, the communicative is beautiful. You consciousness precise arrogant to ticker it. I can't talk for everyone but that's however I felt erstwhile I watched it."
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Sarah Ferguson
Princess Eugenie's mother Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, is besides a instrumentality of the play drama. In fact, she "loved the mode they enactment my wedding successful arsenic well," arsenic she told Us Weekly.
"I thought it was filmed beautifully," she added. "The cinematography was excellent."
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