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Oliver Dowden stated that and not using a warning that the present makes use of creative license, youthful viewers would possibly “mistake fiction for reality.”
However Dowden’s suggestion was criticized by some historians, lots of whom deemed it pointless.
The minister informed the UK’s Mail on Sunday newspaper: “It is a fantastically produced work of fiction, in order with different TV productions, Netflix ought to be very clear in the beginning it’s simply that.”
Netflix doesn’t often inform viewers that its dramas are fictional in the beginning of every episode.
“With out this, I concern a era of viewers who didn’t stay by these occasions might mistake fiction for reality,” Dowden added.
The paper stated the minister is predicted to jot down to the platform to formally request a “well being warning” earlier than each episode.
CNN has contacted Netflix and the UK’s Division for Digital, Tradition, Media and Sport for remark.
“The Crown” is certainly one of Netflix’s flagship collection, and has up to now depicted the primary 4 a long time of Elizabeth II’s rule over the course of 4 seasons.
Its present season portrays the early romance and eventual breakdown of Prince Charles’ marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales, exhibiting the prince persevering with a relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles whereas married to Diana.
Different occasions featured embody the rule of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the declining psychological well being of the Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret, and the monarch’s relationship along with her husband, Prince Philip, and their kids.
Dowden’s name for a disclaimer got here after an identical suggestion by Earl Spencer, Diana’s brother.
“I feel it might assist ‘The Crown’ an unlimited quantity if, in the beginning of every episode, it acknowledged that: ‘This is not true however it’s primarily based round some actual occasions,'” he informed ITV final week.
The concept of a disclaimer was derided by some historians. “Netflix already inform folks that The Crown is fiction. It is billed as a drama. These individuals in it are actors. I do know! Blows your thoughts,” Alex von Tunzelmann wrote on Twitter.
“As a historian of Scotland, working within the shadow of Braveheart, Outlander, and all the remainder, I discover the pearl-clutching over The Crown distorting historical past *cute*,” added Scottish historian Allan Kennedy, drawing comparisons with the depiction of that nation’s previous in widespread media.
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