Netflix should make it clear that the series is fictional

Emma Corrin plays Lady Di in the fourth season of "The Crown".

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British Culture Minister Oliver Dowden said Netflix should make it clear that its hit series The Crown, devoted to the royal family, is fictional, otherwise the public might get it wrong.

According to the Mail on Sunday, which militates in this direction, the minister will formally ask the American giant of the online video to introduce a warning at the beginning of each episode to explain that the plot is romanticized.

"It's a wonderful work of fiction, but like other TV productions Netflix should be very clear from the start that this is just it," Oliver Dowden told the newspaper.

"Without that, I fear that a generation of television viewers who have not experienced these events will take fiction for reality."

Prince Charles "really tried to make his marriage work"

The fourth season of the series, available for two weeks, retraces in particular the meeting and the marriage between Prince Charles and Lady Di.

The heir to the crown appears there as a cold and unfaithful husband, a portrait recently tempered by the specialist of the royalty Penny Junor, who wrote a biography of Prince Charles.

This one "was probably a little insensitive at times but I don't think he was ever arrogant or indifferent, I think he really tried to make his marriage work", she told AFP.

The Culture Minister's statements echo recent statements by Lady Di's brother Charles Spencer, pleading for a warning at the start of each episode.

Reached by the

, Netflix declined to comment.

The fourth season features warnings about Lady Di's eating disorders shown in the series.

"It is in bad taste and totally unfounded"

Critical and popular success,

 has already won three Golden Globes and eight Emmy Awards, and has been seen in more than 70 million homes, according to Netflix.

This is not the first time that the freedoms taken by the series have been criticized.

Last year, at the time of the release of the third season, the former press secretary of Queen Elizabeth II Dickie Arbiter had railed against the fact that the series suggests that the sovereign has struck up a romance with the coach of his racehorses, Lord Porchester.

"It is in bad taste and totally unfounded", he had fulminated, quoted by the newspaper Sunday Times.

"The Queen is the last person in the world to have ever considered looking at another man" than her husband.

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