Did The Royal Family Really Support The Nazis? Fact-Checking ‘The Crown’
Facts And Fact Checking,Great Britain,Arts And Entertainment
The Crown is one of the most popular shows on the streaming platform, Netflix. The widely acclaimed historical drama, created by Peter Morgan, has won 39 awards and been nominated for 141 others.
In addition to various accolades, The Crown has been massively successful with viewers. According to the Hollywood Reporter, “Netflix users watched more than 3 billion minutes of the series in the week of Nov. 16-22” last year.
One unfortunate outcome of its monumental success, however, is that many are using The Crown — which is at least partly fictional — as a reference for their entire understanding of both British history and the monarchy itself. Often, this has disastrous consequences.
Earlier this week, responding to Oprah Winfrey’s controversial interview with former royals Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Joy Behar, co-host of The View, used The Crown to argue that the accusations of racism leveled by Markle against the Royal Family were true, simply because of their “notorious” links with Nazism.
