In season three, Philip is middle-aged and feeling lost. Wrong: Philip's reaction to the moon landing. Buckingham Palace has always denied Philip's involvement and maintained that there is no direct evidence that he was involved in the scandal at all. Keeler was allegedly introduced to Profumo at one of these parties, at which a man named Stephan Ward would arrange for women to, um, entertain important men. In real life, the Profumo Scandal happened in 1963 and involved Minister of War John Profumo's affair with 19-year-old Christine Keeler. The show depicts Philip as away from the Palace, attending the infamous sex parties for several nights. In its second season, The Crown insinuated that Prince Philip was involved in the Profumo Affair, a sex scandal that rocked 1960s Britain. Wrong: Philip was a part of the Profumo Scandal. His sister was always coming to the wedding."Īs a result, Philip's family would have had no reason to blame him for his sister's passing. "There was no fight, almost certainly no half-term, and Prince Philip would not have gone to Germany anyway. Although The Crown suggests that Philip's sister planned to skip the wedding that required her to fly, and only changed her plans after Philip got in trouble at school, royal historian Hugo Vickers told Vogue that this wasn't the case. The Crown implies, in season two, that the horrible plane crash that led to Philip's sister Cecile's death was, at least in part, his fault. Wrong: His parents blamed him for his sister's death. They remained close until her death in 1969. But Alice did return to Buckingham Palace in 1967, and it's thought that she and Prince Philip were able to reconnect at this point. There was no John Armstrong, and there was no Guardian article. The Crown provides a thought-provoking insight into the historic decades that the show covers, revealing the truth behind the on-screen drama.Įxtensively researched and complete with beautifully reproduced photographs, this is a unique look behind the history that inspired the show and the years that would prove to be the making of the Queen.This is true, although the circumstances were a little different than The Crown portrays.
Delve into this eye-opening companion to Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown as renowned biographer and the show's historical consultant, Robert Lacey takes us through the real history that inspired the drama!Ĭovering two tumultuous decades in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, Lacey looks at the key social, political and personal moments and their effects - not only on the royal family, but also on the world around them.įrom the Suez Canal Crisis and the US/Russia space race to the legacy of the Duke of Windsor's collaboration with Hitler, along with the rumoured issues with the royal marriage.
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