Judi Dench slams The Crown makers

Judi Dench

Hollywood star Judi Dench is not a fan of Netflix's The Crown, and wrote an open letter criticising the series, which chronicles the British royal family, for being "cruelly unjust" in its depiction of the royals.

In her letter to a publication, Dench wrote that "no one is a greater believer in artistic freedom" than her but "this cannot go unchallenged." As per reports, she stated, "The closer the drama comes to our present times, the more freely it seems willing to blur the lines between historical accuracy and crude sensationalism."

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The actor, who portrayed Queen Victoria in the 1997 film Mrs Brown, as well as 2017's Victoria & Abdul, and played Queen Elizabeth in 1998's Shakespeare in Love, also penned that "while many will recognise The Crown for the brilliant but fictionalised account of events that it is, I fear that a significant number of viewers, particularly overseas, may take its version of history as being wholly true."

She added, "Given some of the wounding suggestions apparently contained in the new series - that King Charles plotted for his mother to abdicate, for example, or once suggested his mother's parenting was so deficient that she might have deserved a jail sentence - this is both cruelly unjust to the individuals and damaging to the institution they represent."

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