Wicked And Sadistic

A close friend of Princess Diana has slammed Netflix as sadistic and Wicked over its portrayal of her last hours in the latest series of ‘The Crown’.

Simone Simmons, a friend of the late princess, was positively critical of the show’s decision to recreate the moments before Diana’s untimely death in a Paris car crash in 1997. The streaming giant’s fifth season of the programme airs on November 9.

It features haunting scenes showing the former Princess of Wales entering a limousine shortly before the fatal accident. Netflix insists it won’t recreate the crash in the latest series.

Ms Simmons told a newspaper outlet that these were cruel, sadistic and wicked people to recreate these moments and that they were the lowest of the low.

She said that they’re rewriting history as they go along and that’s what makes her so furious.

Ms Simmons went on to slam the flagship show as disgusting and sick and asked if they were setting out to hurt the feelings of Prince William and Prince Harry.

She said it’s forcing them to relive the pain, agony, and psychological torment they suffered when their mother died.

It’s expected the Prince of Wales may be outraged at scenes recreating his mother’s notorious 1995 interview with Martin Bashir, which was last year believed to have been acquired unlawfully after Bashir fabricated invoices to gain the princess’s trust.

Prince William, 40, later gave a public statement saying the interview had been a significant contribution to making his parent’s relationship worse and said it should never be aired again.

In a recent letter to a newspaper outlet, actress Dame Judi Dench described the forthcoming series of ‘The Crown’ as crude sensationalism and wickedly unfair to the Royal Family and suggested it should feature a disclaimer at the start of each episode.

She wrote that no one was a greater believer in artistic freedom than she was, but this could not go unchallenged.

She said the programme-makers have resisted all calls for them to carry a disclaimer at the beginning of each episode. The time has come for Netflix to reconsider, for the sake of a family and a country so recently bereaved, as a mark of respect to a sovereign who served her people so dutifully for 70 years, and to preserve their own reputation in the eyes of their British subscribers.

‘The Crown’ has been a massive hit for Netflix, and it now spends about £11.5 million per episode.

The fact remains that Prince Harry tears strips into the press regarding his mother, yet Netflix has to be silenced.

It will be extremely distressing for both William and Harry to watch their mother’s death recreated, although it is true that they don’t have to watch it if they choose not to, but the fact that it’s been recreated for TV is heartbreaking enough.

A lot of programmes like this make it clear that you’re watching a dramatisation of events, in other words, not a documentary, whereas ‘The Crown’ doesn’t make that distinction.

I must confess, it’s a really good series, particularly the first couple of seasons, and the portrayal of the Queen in a couple of series was extremely good, and the actress was amazing and recreated the role exceptionally well.

We know that some of the Royal Family have watched ‘The Crown’ and enjoyed it, but it’s a dramatisation, and I wouldn’t imagine it bares any resemblance to the truth.

Apparently, the Queen watched it on a Sunday night whilst playing it on a large projector. Camilla seemingly loves it. So, it doesn’t seem that many of the Royal Family are aggrieved by it, unlike most of the public who are getting hysterical about it and trying to defend those that really don’t need to be defended.