You know! I live for the mess that is Richard Kay so let's see what we wrote and what it really means.

"With previous series, despite the jarring of fact and fiction, woeful historical inaccuracies and the juxtaposition of events simply to fit a narrative, criticism had been muted because it was, well, all such a long time ago."

Palace is worried about their PR crafted image.

"Instead, almost from the moment the credits roll in episode one, we are plunged into a world where all the characters are petty, unpleasant, spiteful and disrespectful. And that’s just the Royal Family."

He seems to confirm that the BRF is unpleasant, spiteful and disrespectful

"Rather than crackling with the real-life dramas that dominated the decade, the script is at times a grotesque parody of actual events, & I would argue that most viewers have already stopped believing in it by episode two."

The events are true but the presentation is problematic

"In fact, Prince Charles had virtually no contact with Camilla for the first five years of his marriage to Diana, apart from formal encounters, and allowing for the Prince’s role as godfather to her son Tom."

He has no contact but also had contact. Straight up Victoria Arbiter.

"Some will say that this does reflect a version of the royal marriage — the one Diana herself set out in Andrew Morton’s biography. But even she did not suggest that the marriage was without happiness."

False equivalent but that is typical Royal Reporting

"The birth of their sons — especially of Prince Harry — was a time of great joy, when she felt she and Charles were especially close. None of this is reflected in The Crown."

He is of course setting us up to bring up Prince Harry.

"The Crown is drama, but from its very start the makers have cleverly exploited the idea that because the stories are rooted in fact, they are therefore accurate."

Here he is reminding the people that it is based on facts.

Olivia Colman’s Queen is intellectually incurious and unthoughtful, crass even. Would she really have not provided her prime minister with suitable outdoor clothing to go stalking in rather than, as is suggested, allowing her to wear a bright blue coat?

The Queen is mean.

There is no sense of Prince Charles as a fit, confident polo-playing heir to the throne with numerous interests. He slopes around as though his knuckles are dragging along the ground, the cares of the world on his shoulders.

Palace spin. Kay doing what he is paid to do.

"There are far too many other errors of fact, either deliberate or misplaced, to list. Princess Anne, who features heavily in the run-up to Charles and Diana’s wedding in July 1981 appears not to be pregnant — her daughter Zara was born in May 1981;"

More clean up to do

"there is a Royal Variety performance that the Queen didn’t go to; private secretaries are still in post long after they have retired; Mrs Thatcher holds a Cabinet meeting on August Bank Holiday during Parliament’s recess;"

Clean that shit up with the vague the Royals do so much

He is slowly becoming my one and only favorite RR.