Former Royal Correspondent Charles Rae has expressed his outrage at The Crown, as the Netflix royal drama releases its final season today.
The Crown, created by the streaming service, follows the royal family history in a dramatisation of several British events.
The final season, starring Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana and Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II, will follow Diana and Dodi in their final weeks and their trip to Paris, which resulted in their fatal car crash in 1997.
Netflix has received criticism from royal experts since the series began in 2016, over the absence of a disclaimer, warning viewers that events have been dramatised for entertainment purposes.
The final instalment of The Crown was released on Netflix today
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Speaking to GB News, Royal author Katie Nicholl called on the streaming service to add the warning, stating viewers will begin the sixth season "believing it to be a very accurate depiction of what happens".
Nicholl also recalled previous backlash from the Palace itself against Netflix, over their dramatic portrayal of the monarchy's events.
Speaking to Bev Turner and Andrew Pierce on Britain's Newsroom, Charles Rae also expressed concern for The Crown's accuracy of events, as the first part of the final instalment became available to watch.
Rae said he was "furious" with Netflix over a certain event, which he was personally involved in.
Rae explained: "I'm furious because I've seen the first part and there is a part where she comes out to a boat, a boat that I was on, and I'm annoyed that I'm not being portrayed by Robert Redford or Brad Pitt.
"They have distorted that event out of all context. I mean, she comes across like some brassiere model and says 'hello boys', that didn't happen.
Rae detailed: "There there was a very serious discussion because when she came to see us she was very angry, not at us, but she'd had a phone call minutes beforehand, and that's the place where she said at the end you will be surprised with the very next thing I do. But the rest of it in my view is rubbish.
"The problem with the Crown is, it's real life issues. And it then distorts them with tasteless distortions and errors and they masquerade it as quality drama."
Charles Rae said Netflix uses 'tasteless distortions' to depict events in royal history
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Rae was joined by GB News Royal Correspondent Cameron Walker, who shared his view on The Crown's success in its final outing.
Cameron said: "It's certainly going to be the most uncomfortable series so far for the royal family. But we do have to remember that The Crown is an amazing drama, but it is very much fiction based on facts.
"We do not know what was said behind the closed doors. We know from the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed that the reason for the crash was the fact that the car was driving erratically, they were being chased by paparazzi, the driver was drunk, they weren't wearing seat belts, all of that.
"How much are they going to go into, in The Crown? We don't know.
"And I think that perhaps is also a danger that that viewers, maybe not so much in the UK, who have obviously grown up with the royal family, but the international audience, are going to take what's said in the Crown as facts, and then that's going to distort their opinions of actual members of the royal family who are still very much alive."
