The fifth season of Netflix’s The Crown is set to air on November 9. While most part of the series would touch King Charles and Prince Andrew’s marital split, it will explore Prince Philip’s rumoured affair with Penny Knatchbull.
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What’s the chaos?
There are no doubts that Prince Philip and Penny Knatchbull were good friends and there were even rumours that they had an affair despite the 30-year age gap. However, the palace never dignified the speculation with any statements and insiders always denied the rumours.
As such, the series that is about to show Prince Philip pursuing a romance shortly after Queen Elizabeth II‘s death hasn’t gone down well within the royal circle. Reportedly, Prince Philip will be shown being intimate with Penny – Countess Mountbatten – and ‘touching hands’ as he discusses problems about his marriage with her.
Dickie Arbiter, the Queen’s former secretary, expressed his disgust and said:
This is cruel rubbish.
Coming just weeks after the nation laid Her Majesty to rest next to Prince Philip, this is very distasteful and, quite frankly, cruel rubbish
The truth is that Penny was a long-time friend of the whole family. Netflix are not interested in people’s feelings.
The Sun confirms that the Netflix show has often shown the Prince as a flirt. And in this scene with Penny, the late Duke of Edinburgh is seen sharing details of his marriage as the Queen and he has ‘grown in separate directions.’
No facts, only fiction?
Meanwhile, Royal experts believe that everything shown in the storyline is just fiction and there’s nothing factual in it. Prince Philip and Penny did grow close after 1991 when Penny’s 5-year-old daughter died of Kidney cancer, but that’s all that was. Ingrid Seward, Majesty magazine editor, added:
It’s in exceedingly bad taste.
This is fiction. There’s no way in a million years he’d discuss his marriage with anybody. The royals probably won’t watch it for their own sanity.
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The Sun: Fury as Netflix to show Prince Philip pursuing an affair in The Crown weeks after the Queen’s funeral
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