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Fact or royal fairytale: How accurate is The Crown? – Sydney Morning Herald
The Crown’s creator argues audience wants acts of imagination, not just historic regurgitation. So how much of the show is fact and how much fiction?
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Peter Morgan, the creative genius behind The Crown, is the first to admit his writing is a right royal mix of fact and fantasy.
“When I write … there are the things that I want to be the case and there are the things that are the case,” he explains. “There is a constant push-pull … I’ve learnt, to my cost, that when you’re really only focused on research, the drama suffers. You have to come at it as a dramatist.
“You have to come at that almost…
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