Viewers have hit out at the makers of period drama The Crown after spotting a modern block of flats among a row of Victorian houses.
Eagle-eyed audiences spotted the building in a scene from the latest series in which the Duke of Edinburgh, played by Matt Smith, visits his friend and private secretary Michael Parker.
The scene was shot in Cadogan Terrace in East London, which was built on land owned by the Crown estate in the 1870’s but the property which comes into shot was not completed until the 1960s.
As the Duke of Edinburgh, played by Matt Smith, is filmed driving a vintage Jaguar in to the road, the new block with large uPVC windows comes into shot
The scene was shot in Cadogan Terrace in East London, which was built on land owned by the Crown estate in the 1870’s (pictured today)
Producers had paid huge attention to detail ensuring residents parking bays, speed signs and parking restriction notices were removed.
The street was also dotted with five vintage cars and four extras dressed in costumes of 1957, when the scene was set.
But as the Duke of Edinburgh is filmed driving a vintage Jaguar in to the road, the new block with large uPVC windows comes into shot.
The Duke is visiting his friend and former private secretary who had to resign after his wife divorced him for adultery.
Viewer Rebecca Robins, 45, said: ‘It’s a lovely old street with beautiful old cars and then in the background there is this big modern block.
‘It’s amazing it wasn’t spotted and removed. They’d gone to such lengths to make it look good with old cars and no road markings, it was a pity to see the scene ruined.’
Over the years many of the homes in the street have been demolished and replaced by newer blocks, including Cadogan Court, the modern block which appears in the scene.
Records show that the site was not fully approved to be developed until 1962 and is unlikely to have been completed until the mid sixties.
Eagle-eyed audiences spotted the Duke of Edinburgh, played by Matt Smith (left with Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II) driving past the block as he visits his friend and private secretary
Viewers spotted Cadogan Court, the modern block which appears in the scene
As the Duke of Edinburgh is filmed driving a vintage Jaguar in to the road, the new block with large uPVC windows comes into shot
Windows on nearly all of the seven flats in the block have been replaced in the last ten years and most replaced with modern uPVC frames.
Late last year the second series of The Crown was blasted for a ‘monstrous lie’ over the way it presented the death of the Duke of Edinburgh’s sister, by historian Hugo Vickers.
His sister Cecil was killed in a plane crash en route to London from Germany, an incident which is said to have cause the Duke of Edinburgh a lot of pain.
But in one scene Prince Phillip’s father turns towards him at Cecile’s funeral and coldly says: ‘You’re the reason we’re all here burying my favourite child.’
Royal historian Hugo Vickers, author of The Crown: Truth And Fiction, said: ‘This is a truly shocking invention since Prince Philip had nothing to do with his sister’s air flight to Britain. He was in no way responsible for the accident.
‘The Crown has previously strayed into controversy by feeding upon rumours. This creation of a falsehood around the tragedy that haunted Philip’s family is entirely worse.’