No, Netflix doesn't talk to its friend Prince Harry about The Crown

A press photo from Netflix’s Harry & Meghan

As a “fictional dramatization” of real-life events—a label that its home streamer hastily appended to the series the last time people got mad at it for its handling of the lives of the British royal family—Netflix’s The Crown has always been in a weird relationship with reality. That’s only gotten stranger, obviously, as the series’ timeline has caught up with the real world, to the point that it now features, in its bifurcated final season, characters who are actual living human beings who—to pick an example at random—have active development deals with The Crown’s owners over at Netflix right now.

We speak, of course, of Prince Harry, Duke Of Sussex, successor-in-law to-some-presumably-very-small-percentage-of-the-profits-from-Suits. Harry and wife Meghan Markle have had a development deal with Netflix since 2020—i.e., just around the time Crown creator Peter Morgan started featuring his parents, Charles and Diana, in the series, and well before he himself started appearing on it, as well. (Portrayed by Teddy Hawley, Will Powell, and then Luther Ford as the show has jumped forward in time.) But while Harry has expressed his own basic approval of the series in the past (saying it gives a “rough idea” of the pressures of royal life), it turns out that neither Netflix, nor Morgan himself, have ever talked with him about its big fancy TV show about his grandma.

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