Fact-checking ‘The Crown’: Did Britain want Queen Elizabeth to abdicate to Charles?

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Fact-checking ‘The Crown’: Did Britain want Queen Elizabeth to abdicate to Charles?
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The truth about the opinion poll portrayed in 'The Crown' and the 'second honeymoon' taken by Prince Charles and Princess Diana in Italy.

In another scene, Charles arranges a meeting with Prime Minister John Major, played by Jonny Lee Miller, and, buoyed by the poll, delicately pressures Major to encourage the queen to step down. Major, now 79, said recently a meeting like this never happened, calling it “,” and prompting reminders from the show’s creators that “The Crown” is a fictionalized version of real events — emphasis on the fictionalized.

The date of the poll’s release appears to have been moved in the show so that it would coincide with Charles and Diana’s vacation to Italy — a real trip they took in August 1991. Coming a few weeks after the couple’s 10th wedding anniversary, some in the press really did dub it a “second honeymoon” at the time, though the show’s suggestion that this framing came from Charles’s camp appears to be artistic license.

In real life, by the time of the Italian “second honeymoon,” she was already leaking tapes to writer Andrew Morton for a tell-all book — a subject that takes up most of the next episode of “The Crown.”The Post’s Jennifer Hassan analyzes how Netflix’s “The Crown” depicted Queen Elizabeth II through her decades-long reign.

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