In season 5 of The Crown recently released on Netflix, one of the scenes shows Prince Charles’ desire to have his mother abdicate. Did the conversation between him and former Prime Minister John Major really take place?
Season 5 of The Crown was already controversial long before its release on Netflix. It must be said that several elements contained in the new episodes had leaked on the Web, enough to put the British government and the royal family in all their states. The penultimate season deals with the 1990s, and in particular that of 1992, considered as the annus horribilis by Queen Elizabeth II. The sovereign notably had to witness the separation of three of her children with their partners, the fire at Windsor Castle, the highly publicized divorce of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer, but also the rumors evoking the will of her eldest son to want to dethrone her.
In season 5 of The Crowna sequence shows the‘heir discuss with John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time. We thus see him trying to maneuver with the latter to make his mother abdicate, in vain. Did this story really happen in the past?
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Did Charles really want his mother to abdicate?
Long before the new episodes of The Crown are released on Netflix, the entourage of the former Prime Minister had reacted to this intrigue that they judge “wacky and misleading” : “It’s fiction, pure and simple. There was never any discussion between Sir John and the Prince of Wales over an abdication of Queen Elizabeth II. These scenes should not be viewed as anything other than harmful and malicious fiction.” Tony Blair, another former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom also implicated by the Netflix series, also expressed his anger. In one of the scenes, we discover Prince Charles initiating a secret meeting, with the objective of marrying Camilla. “As you’d expect, this is absolute rubbish”he said.