Helena Bonham Carter Believes The Crown Should End After Prince Harry’s Memoir

Helena Bonham Carter, the actress who portrayed Princess Margaret in series 3 and 4 of The Crown, has expressed her belief that the royal drama should not continue after Prince Harry's memoir.

Speaking to The Guardian, Helena was asked if she thought Prince Harry's recent book would make it easier for Peter Morgan to write The Crown now that he had a first-hand account of recent royal drama.

“I should be careful here, but I don't think they should carry on actually,” Helena replied.

“I'm in it, and I love my episodes, but it's very different now.

When The Crown started, it was a historic drama, and now it's crashed into the present.

But that's up to them.”

Helena added that she did not want to contribute to the conversation around Prince Harry's book, calling it complicated and adding that her words would get taken out of context.

“I think it's been given enough attention already,” she said.

In 2021, Bonham Carter shared some advice on dealing with negative press, which may prove comforting to Meghan Markle.

The actress, who has spent over 20 years in the public eye, said that she wished Meghan wouldn't have to pay attention to the difficult and often upsetting press around her and husband Prince Harry.

“All I'd say to her is as soon as you become well-known and in the public domain, you have to kind of accept that possibly you're all that people think of you and write about you,” Bonham Carter shared.

Meanwhile, Prince Harry has finally admitted to watching The Crown as he confesses to fact-checking the controversial Netflix series, once branded nonsense.

During a segment of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Harry drank tequila shots before answering questions about his memoir.

When asked if he watched the show, the father of two said, “Yes, I do actually,” which he followed up with a statement about the importance of historical accuracy.

Host Stephen also asked Harry to confirm if he watched the recent stuff or the older stuff, to which the Duke said he enjoyed both.

The recent season of The Crown aired in November 2022 and is set in the early 1990s, covering the break-up of King Charles and Princess Diana.

The Netflix series faced controversy last year when high-profile figures criticised how the series portrayed people and called for the show to have a disclaimer to make it clear that the show was fiction.

Actress Dame Judi Dench at the time wrote that Netflix seemed willing to blur the lines between historical accuracy and crude sensationalism.

She said there was a risk that a significant number of viewers would take the drama series as historical fact.

Harry had previously discussed the show with James Corden in 2021, explaining, “It's fictional, but it's loosely based on the truth.

Of course, it's not strictly accurate.”

A Netflix spokesperson previously defended the show's plot by saying, “The Crown has always been presented as a drama based on historical events.

Series 5 is a fictional dramatisation, imagining what could have happened behind closed doors during a significant decade for the royal family.

One that has already been scrutinised and well documented by journalists, biographers and historians.”

Although Helena Bonham Carter believes that The Crown should end after Prince Harry's memoir, the decision ultimately rests with the show's creators.

The Crown has been a global phenomenon since its inception, and its popularity shows no signs of slowing down.