Royal experts are demanding Prince Harry tears up his £112million Netflix deal and makes a stand over The Crown’s portrayal of Princess Diana.
Angela Levin, a Royal biographer, criticized the Duke of Sussex’s inability to ‘find his voice’ about the streaming giant’s controversial portrayal his mother.
This is after Jemima Khan, Princess Diana’s friend with The Crown’s ‘disrespectful script’ after she split with its creator.
Levin, author of Harry: A Biography of a Prince, told The Sun: ‘Harry has remained absolutely silent about Netflix.
“He should declare war on his mother and tear up the contract.
“What is more important?” Is it money or his mother’s defense? He can’t seem to find his voice when he’s talking about this.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made a streaming deal last year with the service for their production company, which will produce documentaries, feature movies, and scripted programs.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made a streaming deal last year with the streaming company for their production company. They will make feature films, documentaries and scripted programs, as well as children’s programming.
The Crown’s fifth season, due to be available in November 2013, focuses on Princess Diana and Prince Charles relationship before she tragically died in a Paris car accident in 1997.
Criticisms have been levelled at the television series for their depiction of Princess Diana in Elizabeth Debicki’s final years as an actress, 31.
Majesty Magazine editor Ingrid Seward stated to the publication that Harry doesn’t get it. I presume when he did the deal with Netflix he didn’t think it through — but Meghan would have, she’s not an idiot.
“He mentioned The Crown while he was interviewing James Corden on the bus, so he doesn’t seem completely unaware.
The comments come after Khan, 47, refused a writing credit in The Crown and backed out of the project because the show wasn’t handling Diana’s story as ‘respectfully or compassionately’ as she had hoped.
Khan was appointed to help Peter Morgan (58), whom she had a brief relationship with between January and February.
Morgan has since been reunited with his partner of four years Gillian Anderson, who played Margaret Thatcher in the show, The Sunday Times reported.
Diana, Princess Royal of Wales (with Jemima Kan and her son) on a British royal trip to Pakistan in 1997
Elizabeth Debicki plays Diana in The Crown’s fifth season
Morgan and Khan collaborated from September 2013 to February 2014 on stories about Diana’s relationships between heart surgeon Hasnat Khan & Dodi Fayed, as well her sensational BBC Panorama interview featuring Martin Bashir.
Morgan approached her in 2019, and she asked her to write the fifth series. She had not spoken publicly about Diana’s past, but she was keen to tell her story ‘exactly’.
She said she requested that her ‘contributions be removed from the series’ and declined a writing credit.
According to a Crown spokesperson, Khan was a friend and fan of The Crown since the beginning. However, she never received a contract as a writer.
Khan was an associate editor at The New Statesman political magazine and European editor-at–large for Vanity Fair. Khan is now a director of a film production company.
She has two sons – Suleiman, 24, and 21-year-old Kasim – from her marriage to former cricketer Imran Khan, now Pakistan’s Prime Minister and Hasnat Khan’s distant cousin.
Jemima was married to Imran Khan, but the couple divorced nine years later. Diana visited them twice, in 1996 and 1997.
Diana, Imran, and Jemima Khan in 1997. Peter Morgan, the film producer, worked together with Diana on stories about Diana’s relationships to heart surgeon Hasnat Khan (now Dodi Khan) from last September through February.
Khan (pictured) said that the series wasn’t as compassionate as she had hoped.
In 1995, the couple got married. Nine years later, they split. Diana visited the pair twice in 1996 and 1997.
The daughter of James Goldsmith, a tycoon, and Lady Annabel Goldsmith, has been dating several prominent men, including Russell Brand, Hugh Grant and Shane Warne (ex-lizzy Hurley).
For his script in 2006’s The Queen, which starred Helen Mirren as the Queen, Father-of-5 Morgan was nominated to an Academy Award.
Gillian Anderson plays Margaret Thatcher on series 4 of The Crown
Peter Morgan is a writer for Netflix’s hit The Crown. (pictured in 2017).
Frost/Nixon, The Damned United and The Audience are just a few of his screenwriting credits.
Director Philip Martin was seen in September on the set of The Crown’s fifth series. These shots were taken in sunny Spain.
The royals did not make any official visits to Spain in the 1990s. It is possible that crew members were reenacting scenes from 1997, when Diana and Dodi Fayed went to St. Tropez.