Princess Margaret
Her close friend raises serious allegations against “The Crown”
Princess Margaret
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It’s no secret that the royal family thinks little of The Crown. But Princess Margaret’s confidant Lady Anne Glenconner is now taking the successful series to court and accusing it of an untruthful representation.
In 1960, Princess Margaret, †71, married photographer Anthony Armstrong-Jones, †86, but the marriage was not lastingly happy. Both had extramarital affairs. Queen Elizabeth’s sister, † 96, had a liaison with Roddy Llewellyn, 75, for eight years. Several years ago, Margaret’s former lady-in-waiting and close friend Lady Anne Glenconner, 90, revealed that the princess and Llewellyn met during a weekend together met on their property. The third season of “The Crown” also retells the beginning of the relationship, but according to Glenconner the portrayal is misleading.
Lady Anne Glenconner vents her anger
Already in November last year, Lady Anne Glenconner vented her anger about the Netflix series. You saw the episodes and couldn’t discover any truth. In the season finale, Margaret, played by Helena Bonham Carter, 56, meets Roddy at a pool. “But it’s fantasy. This horrible country club swimming pool we’re sitting by! And it’s like I’ve been Princess Margaret’s pimp. I was just introducing her to someone [Roddy Llewellyn, der ihr Liebhaber wurde, Anmerkung der Redaktion]. what she [die Macher der Sendung, Anmerkung der Redaktion] done is to take a tiny grain of truth and twist it into something completely wrong. It makes me so angry,” the 90-year-old told The Guardian.
Lady Anne Glenconner
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Princess Margaret is misrepresented in “The Crown”.
Now the former lady-in-waiting addresses the scene again and emphasizes in the latest issue of the British magazine “The Oldie” that she even met Helena Bonham Carter “for tea” beforehand. The actress wanted to know from Lady Anne how Princess Margaret spoke, which gestures were characteristic of her. After Glenconner watched “The Crown”, she was very disappointed. “It was pretty awful, wasn’t it?” she said to the actress. In the pool scene, she also bothered that both Helena Bonham Carter and Nancy Carroll, 48, who mimics Lady Anne, can be seen in bikinis. “Princess Margaret never wore a bikini,” affirms the late princess’ close friend. Therefore, she classifies the preparation of getting to know each other as “cheap”. The creators of the series “should really put a disclaimer at the beginning of ‘The Crown’ saying it’s not true,” she concludes.
Sources used: theguardian.com, theoldie.co.uk