“But I’ve been with the project from the beginning, and I remember Peter (Morgan) saying he wanted it to be deep, dark and truthful,' she said. Suzanne Mackie, producer of the series, told The Australian there have always been worries about the possibility that the British public could reject the program because of their preconceptions about the royal family.

Crown: The Official Companion, written by the series’ historical consultant Robert Lacey The Crown Secrets, interviews and historical details behind the Netflix hit’s first season are featured in The. “The genius of The Crown is the mingling - the chemical reaction - between the history and Peter’s invention, and the main purpose of my book is to set out the evidence on which the imagination is based.” “People are quite entitled to ask whether it is true or false,” Lacey told Sykes. It's the challenge of a historical dramatist, in this case Peter Morgan, to fill the void by imagining and creating plausible exchanges between the protagonists. There also are events, photos, movies, speeches, and exchanges that had been recorded for posterity and history's sake. What is said and happens behind closed doors between the royal couple is something that nobody knows. People’s feelings, people’s intimacies, they all go through the sieve, and all that’s left is a few scraps and lumps.” 'The historian holds out a sieve and most of the past, the real past, goes through it.

Nevertheless, Lacey clarifies that there is a difference between the past (reality), “human life, people talking to each other, loving each other, hating each other, fighting each other” and what is recorded as history - which is only a fraction of that life and “a later construct.' Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip during the happy time of their honeymoon Photo: Topical Press.

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