Although the show is 'true' in that it is based on events that really did happen and the characters are based on real people, the script is a work of fiction, meaning that the conversations had in the show won't be an accurate representation of what actually happened.
Let's discover the chronology of some of the main events in The Crown.
While looking for data and answers to the question that lead us to start this project, we realized that the first thing you can see by comparing any official speech to any on The Crown, you'll see that they had to be cropped. Because of a time factor, and because the official speeches had to be long enough to get people's attention, the show only selected a little part. But the question is "which part?" because we all know that words matter, especially in such a context.
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Happy Christmas.
Twenty-five years ago my grandfather broadcast the first of these Christmas messages. Today is another landmark because television has made it possible for many of you to see me in your homes on Christmas Day. My own family often gather round to watch television as they are this moment, and that is how I imagine you now.
I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and direct.
My Lord Mayor, the anniversary of any occasion is a time to reflect. But in light of the events of the last 12 months, perhaps I have more to reflect on than most. 1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. It has turned out to be an Annus Horribilis.
There are homes ready to welcome us in every continent of the earth. Before I am much elder, I hope I shall come to know many of them. Although there is none of my father’s subjects, from the eldest to the youngest, whom I do not wish to greet, I am thinking especially today of all the young men and women who were born about the same time as myself and have grown up like me in the terrible and glorious years of the Second World War. Will you, the youth of the British family of nations, let me speak on my birthday as your representative?
We examined some of the most important speeches of "The Crown" and researched which storylines were mostly real, and which ones leaned more toward fiction.
