The Crown tells the story of the British royal family under Queen Elizabeth.
The new season focuses on Princess Diana and Prince Charles and is about the prince couple's love problems and Diana's eating disorders.
"A scaffolding"
But the episodes are not appreciated by Dickie Arbiter, former press secretary at Buckingham Palace.
- It's a scaffolding by Prince Charles and something of a scaffolding by Diana as well.
Is it really necessary ?, he tells the BBC.
"Never Happened"
Arbiter is upset that the screenwriter Peter Morgan has taken the liberty of writing letters between members of the royal family himself.
Letters that do not correspond to reality, according to Arbiter.
He also questions an episode in which Prince Charles' private secretary John Ridell wonders if Diana is mentally stable enough to visit New York on her own.
- It never happened.
John Ridell would never have said that.
But the average viewer sees the series as the truth, says Dickie Arbiter.
- It's sensationalism and makes Charles and Camilla (Parker Bowles, Prince Charles' current wife) villains.
Charles is portrayed as evil, he is not.
"Is a dramatization"
This is not the first time Dickie Arbiter and screenwriter Peter Morgan have discussed the right to take turns in action and dialogue.
Peter Morgan has always defended himself by saying that the series is a dramatization.