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The Crown - fact or fiction?

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Is Thatcher a Dramatic Hero?

This is where I think that it can go off, the Royal will be slightly wrong. As Peter Morgan and the writers always say, this is an imagining of what happened behind closed doors. Events we could never know, just like the audience itself, exactly what happened because it's completely private. You know, that's drama, that's dramatic license. But there could be a distinction though, which they are matters of historical fact and record. We know what happened with Thatcher. Those events at the end of November 1990 around her downfall have been completely well documented by all the players involved. So I don't really see what, and the events themselves are dramatic enough. The Kenneth Branidrama

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