Cruel trolls launch a tirade of abuse at Camilla after The Crown’s portrayal of her and Charles

Cruel social media trolls have launched a tirade of abuse at the Duchess of Cornwall after The Crown falsely suggested she had an affair with Prince Charles throughout his marriage to Diana. 

Since the latest series of the smash-hit Netflix show launched, dozens of critics have complained that many events portrayed on the screen were either distortions of the truth or simply never happened.

But online comments by viewers of the show reveal that many have accepted the fake storylines as historical fact – including the incorrect assertion that Charles and Camilla conducted an affair throughout the Prince’s entire relationship with Diana.

In reality, Charles had practically no contact with Camilla for five years after his marriage in 1981.

Angry viewers have started posting misplaced hate comments to the Duchess on the Royal Family’s Instagram page. 

Cruel social media trolls have launched a tirade of abuse at Duchess of Cornwall after The Crown falsely suggested she had an affair with Prince Charles throughout his marriage to Diana. Pictured: Charles and Camilla earlier this month 

Emerald Fennell is seen above playing Camilla in Netflix's The Crown while Josh O'Connor plays Prince Charles

Emerald Fennell is seen above playing Camilla in Netflix’s The Crown while Josh O’Connor plays Prince Charles

Angry viewers have started posting misplaced hate comments to the Duchess on the Royal Family's Instagram page (pictured)

Commenting on a picture of Camilla, one cruel toll simple said they were 'not interested with her'

Angry viewers have started posting misplaced hate comments to the Duchess on the Royal Family’s Instagram page (pictured)

Commenting on a picture of Camilla, one cruel toll simple said they were ‘not interested’ in her.

Another harshly wrote: ‘Camila: The world hates you. Princess Diana forever.’ 

Several social media users shared tributes to the late Princess alongside the picture of the Duchess. 

Many of The Crown’s audience have also been fooled by the depiction of Charles and Camilla’s close friendship on Twitter, with one writing: ‘I am loving this season of The Crown. I had no idea Charles’s affair with Camilla was happening during their entire relationship – dating/engagement/marriage… ugh. No wonder Diana was so miserable.’

Another expressed shock that Charles and Camilla had enjoyed a ‘fully fledged affair’ from the start of Charles and Diana’s relationship. 

But online comments by viewers of the show (pictured) reveal that many have accepted the fake storylines covering Charles, Camilla and Diana as historical fact. Examples include the incorrect assertion that Charles and Camilla conducted an affair throughout the Prince's entire relationship with Diana

But online comments by viewers of the show (pictured) reveal that many have accepted the fake storylines covering Charles, Camilla and Diana as historical fact. Examples include the incorrect assertion that Charles and Camilla conducted an affair throughout the Prince’s entire relationship with Diana 

In fact, Charles and Camilla’s affair resumed in 1986 – by which time the marriage had, as the Prince himself famously put it in a TV documentary, ‘irretrievably broken down’.

One poster wrote: ‘Almost everything in The Crown is true. And there is even more that hasn’t been covered. 

‘How they isolated Diana, how they laughed at her, made her feel crazy, Camilla playing hostess in Diana’s home.’ Another viewer said: ‘It’s been days since I found out Diana’s bulimia was brought on because of Charles and it still makes me SOOOO angry!’

One fan wrote: ‘I’m sorry most of The Crown is true, a few things were a little different but Charles cheated and married Diana for the heirs, he thought she was young and naive and would let him cheat… all the issues were from Camilla. Just think if that had not happened, Diana would be alive.’

Among other comments, Anna Gifty tweeted: ‘Prince Charles is trending because Gen Z and Millennials are (re)learning about the abuse Princess Diana was subject to. Harry and Meghan’s exit always made sense, but now watching The Crown, it morally made sense. Harry left to protect his family, the family he chose.’

Another gloated: ‘Enjoyed The Crown season four but absolutely loving everyone’s renewed hate for Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.’

Royal experts said the portrayal of Charles and Camilla was yet another example of the Netflix series failing to portray the Royal Family truthfully.

Author Sally Bedell Smith, who has written biographies of the Queen, Charles and Diana, said: ‘I am very sad to say that I have heard it over, over and over again that people take The Crown at face value and they believe everything they see in the series, and that includes Charles and Camilla.

‘The notion in the programme that he entered into his marriage cynically with a view to continuing with Camilla and putting his new wife on the side is exceedingly dishonest and damaging. It is just simply not true.’

Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, said: ‘The Crown is a very one-sided portrayal, which is really the Diana version. The sad thing for people viewing it is that they are going to take it as the correct story line, which it isn’t at all.’

Tory MP Colonel Bob Stewart branded the portrayal of Prince Charles as ‘wildly inaccurate’. 

Col Stewart, a former battalion commander in the Cheshire Regiment, frequently spoke to Charles, the regiment’s colonel-in-chief, during a tour of Bosnia in 1992 and 1993.

‘That is not the Prince Charles I knew,’ he told The Mail on Sunday. ‘Please, please God, people, do not think that this is an accurate portrayal of the heir to the throne.’

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