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18th November 2020
04:09pm GMT

Since the series appeared on Netflix, viewers noticed that creator Peter Morgan had taken some liberties with scenes between Prince Charles and Mountbatten about Charles' pursuit of Camilla.
Morgan said on the show's official podcast: “What we know is that Mountbatten was really responsible for taking Charles to one side at precisely this point and saying, ‘Look, you know, enough already with playing the field, it’s time you got married and it’s time you provided an heir’.
“As the heir I think there was some concern that he should settle down, marry the appropriate person and get on with it.”
Morgan went on to defend his decision to fabricate scenes in order to tell the story: “In my own head I thought that would have even greater impact on Charles if it were to come post-mortem, as it were.
"I think everything that’s in that letter that Mountbatten writes to Charles is what I really believe, based on everything I’ve read and people I’ve spoken to, that represents his view."
He went on to say: “We will never know if it was put into a letter, and we will never know if Charles got that letter before or after Mountbatten’s death, but in this particular drama, this is how I decided to deal with it.”
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