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‘The Crown’ Is Not Reality, but It Is Also Not Crazy Fiction

ROYAL INTRIGUE

The Daily Mail is in a snit about how the royals are presented in the upcoming season of “The Crown”—even though the incidents are rooted in emotional, and sometimes actual, truth.

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