The Crown star Jonathan Pryce told Times Radio he once apologized to Princess Anne for portraying her father on the show.
In an interview scheduled for Christmas Eve, Pryce told interviewers Kate McCann and Adam Boulton that royal eyes are indeed watching The Crown. The series takes a sometimes unflattering look behind the scenes of the royal family.
“One of our cast met one of the royal family who intimated that they watched it,” Pryce said.
“When I was made a knight and went to Windsor, and it was Princess Anne who dubbed me, and I was in the middle of playing her father, and there’d been intimations that she’d seen some of it. And so she put the sword lightly on the shoulder, and I stood up and I said – thinking she was thinking, you know – I said, ‘Oh, I don’t know what to say to you…um…sorry? And she said, ‘Why? It’s done now’.”
He added: “Now, whether she meant I was saying sorry for being here tonight, or sorry for, y’know, you’ve played my father and it’s done the way you’ve done it, it’s, you know, whatever. It was quite an amusing moment, for me at least.”
