Netflix biographical drama season 5 The crown dropped on the platform on November 9 and, as expected, it has already proven to be a hit with fans. With over 1.1 million viewers on its first day, it dropped in the UK (via BBC), it seems everyone has been intrigued to see how the writers will handle some of the biggest scandals and events.

However, given The crown recently added a bogus warning to the official YouTube page after receiving numerous complaints (via live chronicle), it’s important to remember that there will be storylines that were dramatized for the drama, meaning not everything in Season 5 is accurate.

The Sunday Times front page calling for abdication

5th season of The crown it starts with Queen Elizabeth’s family and staff hiding a Sunday Times front page from her suggesting she should abdicate and let Charles take the throne. The newspaper claimed the monarch was now very old and out of touch and her departure was better for the survival of the crown.

However, as the Real Times points out, no front page was published (via The temperature🇧🇷 It was more of a creative license on the show’s part to illustrate the UK public’s growing disillusionment with Elizabeth’s reign.

Popularity of Prince Charles

Prince Charles first big story in The crown Season 5 is his growing belief that his mother should abdicate and allow him to assume the role of King of England. Charles thinks that the Elizabethan era is very traditional and that he could succeed in modernizing the monarchy.

In a minor plot hole, Charles was portrayed as unpopular with Crown Subjects in Season 4 (as shown in the episode where he and Diana visited Australia – where he was seen by Australians as clumsy and lacking in charisma). Diana, whom he split from in the early 1990s, even pointed out in his panoramic royal interview that she was far more popular than Charles ever was (via Maria Clara🇧🇷

Meeting of Prince Charles with the Prime Minister

Under increasing pressure from the British press, which campaigned for the evolution of the monarchy, Prince Charles organized a secret meeting with Prime Minister John Major. At the meeting, Charles hopes the Prime Minister can use his powers to convince his mother to step down, emphasizing his own leadership qualities.

The real John Major claimed that this reunion never happened, going so far as to call the show a “barrel of nonsense” via (The Guardian🇧🇷 The British Conservative Party that Major once led was a major force in encouraging Netflix to include a disclaimer, which the streamer initially refused (The Guardian🇧🇷

Diana’s confrontation with the Queen

Before Diana’s interview airs on the BBC, Diana visits Queen Elizabeth at her home. She informs her mother-in-law that the TV special is happening, before the two argue over Elizabeth’s lack of support when Diana struggled with her mental health and voiced criticism of the way the monarchy is run .

Elizabeth Debicki certainly knows how Princess Diana would have had an emotional conflict with the Queen, but there is no evidence that such a confrontation actually took place. According to royal historian Sarah Gristwood, there is no evidence of the meeting, and the Queen’s reaction to the interview “as usual, was less vocal” than others (via BBC Supplemental Story🇧🇷

The first business ventures of Mohamed Al-Fayed

Mohamed Al-Fayed was an Egyptian billionaire businessman who had many ties to the royal family. He had bought the home of King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson (via Independent) and was also the father of Princess Diana’s boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, who died alongside her in a fatal car accident in 1997. The crown, a young Mohamed sees King Edward while working as a Coca-Cola salesman in Egypt.

In real life, Mohamed Al-Fayed hasn’t seen King Edward in Egypt (via The Telegraph🇧🇷 It was more of a narrative device to show how Muhammad’s ambition to have royal connections. He wasn’t a traveling salesman either, and spent his early years in business working at a shipping company with his family (via she🇧🇷

Queen Elizabeth’s 1995 farce deleted

Imelda Staunton’s first season as Queen Elizabeth received critical acclaim as it showed an older Queen Elizabeth II navigating the tumultuous 1990s as a joke on a Canadian radio show.

In 1995, a joking radio host pretended to be then Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and the two talked for 17 minutes; they discussed politics, in particular the upcoming Canadian referendum (via The mirror🇧🇷 This rare moment when the Queen was overtly political was an embarrassing slip that would have played into the show’s history of wiretapping royals.

Diana and Dodi’s first date

About The crown, Princess Diana met her future boyfriend Dodi Fayed in the early 1990s when he attended a polo match. She and her father, Mohamed Al-Fayed, talk and form a quick bond about their cold relationship with the Queen, and both joked about Dodi.

In fact, Diana met Dodi in 1986 while he was playing against Charles in a polo match. They then met more formally after Diana’s divorce, at a yacht party hosted by Mohamed (via radio schedules🇧🇷 It’s not a million miles away The crown portrait, but Diana is thought to have known who Dodi was long before she parted ways with Charles.

Sydney Johnson coaching Mohamed Al-Fayed

The season 5 episode “Mou Mou” follows Mohamed Al-Fayed as he meets Sydney Johnson, a former servant and valet of King Edward. Mohamed, strongly inspired by King Edward after seeing him in his native Egypt, hires Sydney to train him in English upper-class life to prepare him for royal friendships.

There are many accounts of Sydney Johnson working as a curator for the house of Mohamed Al-Fayed while restoring the old royal house. There’s no evidence to suggest, however, that Sydney trained him in British etiquette, or that Mohamed cared for him as he succumbed to a fatal illness (via TV Insider🇧🇷

Prince Philip’s warning to Diana

Prince Philip is one of The crown smarter characters, and fans see him best when advising Queen Elizabeth or keeping her kids out of line. There is also another side explored in season 5, as viewers also see how protective Philip is of his family – especially when he learns from his confidante, Penny Knatchbull, that Diana is working on an autobiography detailing her life as a royal. (which leads him to warn her against hurting the family).

In reality, there’s no evidence to suggest that Diana and Philip ever exchanged words about it. On the contrary, there are letters published between the two that show Philip supporting Diana after her son’s divorce (via People🇧🇷

When Queen Elizabeth finally allows Charles and Diana to divorce, she hires Prime Minister John Major to mediate the divorce proceedings. She suggests that he can act as a “referee” between the two sides, given his success in mediating international political affairs.

There is no evidence that John Major was asked to do formal divorce mediation, nor that he was asked to help Charles and Diana by Queen Elizabeth. Given John Major’s opinion on The crown, he probably also had a dispute with this storyline (via Squire🇧🇷