But where the facts are jumbled up, or simply disregarded, it does seem valid to question why – and for what benefit. And without adjudicating every single narrative choice, the show is evidently content to deviate from the truth in a wilfully indiscriminate manner: take the first episode, whose abdication plot is predicated on the shock of a Sunday Times poll that apparently suggested the monarchy was under such threat, it caused Prince Charles to move against his mother. Except you can look up the reporting of that poll now in The
