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<\/p>\nCharles was judged too harshly when\u00a0Princess Diana died, actor Dominic West, who played him in The Crown, has claimed.<\/p>\n
The star, 54, who took the role of the Prince of Wales in the final two series of the Netflix show, believes that history should be kinder to the now King, who he believes has ‘made every mistake going’.<\/p>\n
Mr West, previously most famous for his role as Jimmy McNulty in The Wire, believes Charles was seen as a ‘villain’ after his\u00a0ex-wife died with Dodi\u00a0Fayed\u00a0on the night of August 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said: ‘I adore him. I feel real affection for him’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In season six, which premiered last month with the final episodes released last week, Charles crumbles into tears when he learns of his ex-wife’s death in Paris.\u00a0 He then defied his mother and pushed for the royal plane to be sent to\u00a0France\u00a0to collect her coffin, sobbing loudly when he saw her body for the first time at the Piti\u00e9-Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re Hospital.<\/p>\n
Mr West said: ‘You do feel a sympathy for him. I think that, particularly around Diana\u2019s death, he was the villain of the piece. And I think perhaps now that we\u2019ve had 25 years of retrospective to look back on, we might judge that \u2014 I certainly have judged that \u2014 as being a bit harsh on him’.<\/p>\n
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Dominic West says he will miss playing Charles now The Crown is over, and believes he was treated harshly over the death of Diana, played by\u00a0Elizabeth Debicki<\/p>\n
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Debicki as Diana with her sons William and Harry on the show<\/p>\n
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The final moments of Princess Diana’s life, before the fatal car crash in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris, are depicted in the final series of The Crown<\/p>\n
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Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince William, Earl Spencer, Prince Harry and Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales follow the coffin of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997<\/p>\n
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, West said: ‘I\u2019m fighting for him as one does as an actor for any character, except perhaps the most villainous. Inevitably, you\u2019re trying to get inside the mind of your character and that requires a sort of sense of common humanity and empathy’.<\/p>\n
He said he has grown to ‘adore’ playing Charles in the show, admitting he is sad that the role has ended.<\/p>\n
Did Prince William really blame his father for Diana’s death?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Find out in the new episode of our unmissable podcast The Crown: Fact of Fiction<\/p>\n
And keep listening to find out the truth about Harry’s Nazi costume<\/p>\n
In an interview with Town and Country he said: ‘I miss him. I’m still reading all the news articles about him. I adore him. I feel real affection for him, which I didn’t particularly feel before’, adding: ‘He’s likable, as well as an interesting character’.<\/p>\n
He referenced recent events, such as Charles’ anger when his pen failed to work after the Queen died.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘It’s hard not to bring the present man into the historic man, or even the real man into Peter Morgan’s version of him. But it was a wonderful gift to have all that coronation stuff and the pen\u2014the irritation about the pen. You don’t get many glimpses of what’s going on behind the public persona. So I greedily devoured all those moments. They are gold dust to an actor, really’.<\/p>\n
He added: ‘He’s made every mistake going. He’s been through it all, it’s been about as bad as it can get. And he’s been grilled about as hard as he possibly could be. And so I imagine, like with so much in his life, I think there’s a certain resolution now he’s King. I think there’s a certain, probably relief, that he no longer is allowed to be political or outspoken’.<\/p>\n
He added: ‘He’s landed on his feet\u2014or with a crown on his head, more accurately’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The last series of The Crown has proved controversial and had mixed reviews, from the depiction of Diana’s death to Charles’ wedding to Camilla and the Queen’s existential crisis over the future of the monarchy.<\/p>\n
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The Crown looks at Diana’s romance with Dodi –\u00a0played by Khalid Abdalla<\/p>\n
There are also a series of bizarre dream sequences when senior royals including the Queen and Charles speak with the late Princess, played by Elizabeth Debicki, after her death.<\/p>\n
Harry\u2019s embarrassment over wearing a Nazi uniform to a party has been gleefully recreated by Netflix in the very last episode of The Crown.<\/p>\n
But in this case, the prince\u2019s closeness to the streaming service appears to have paid off. Harry, who has a reported \u00a380million production deal with Netflix, has notably shied away from criticising the series\u2019 increasingly cartoonish plotlines.<\/p>\n
The on-screen portrayal of his Nazi debacle appears to stay close to his own recollection of the incident in his memoir, Spare. In the book, Harry took little in the way of responsibility for his actions, effectively blaming Prince William and his then-girlfriend Kate, for egging him on.<\/p>\n
The Crown has the trio \u2013 played by Ed McVey, Luther Ford and Meg Bellamy \u2013 at a costume shop in the Cotswolds, planning for the \u2018natives and colonials\u2019 themed party.<\/p>\n
While William is going as a lion, his younger brother is undecided on what to do until coming across a uniform of the Afrika Korps \u2013 Rommel\u2019s troops in North Africa \u2013 complete with swastika armband. \u2018Germany had an empire, didn\u2019t they?\u2019 he asks in the scene. \u2018What about this?\u2019 \u2018I don\u2019t know,\u2019 Kate replies. \u2018Maybe cover the swastika?\u2019 But William comes to his brother\u2019s defence.<\/p>\n
\u2018Oh, come on. Wearing the outfit doesn\u2019t make him a Nazi. Isn\u2019t that the joke?\u2019 he adds. In the mirror, a gleeful Harry, then aged 20, does the \u2018Heil Hitler\u2019 salute as he makes his choice.<\/p>\n
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Harry’s embarrassment over wearing a Nazi uniform to a party has been gleefully recreated by Netflix in the very last episode of The Crown<\/p>\n
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The Crown has the trio \u2013 played by Ed McVey, Luther Ford and Meg Bellamy \u2013 at a costume shop in the Cotswolds, planning for the ‘natives and colonials’ themed party<\/p>\n
At the party, hosted by Olympic showjumper Richard Meade, Harry is photographed by two shocked guests who sell the pictures to The Sun.<\/p>\n
The Royal Family are then shown examining the front pages in horror, while the young prince shouts obscenities as he realises his mistake. In a later scene, the two brothers row over the scandal at supper with their father.<\/p>\n
\u2018You were all for the uniform, egging me on,\u2019 Harry hit out. \u2018Suddenly you\u2019re Mr Morality. Stabbing me in the back… how many faces does this man have?\u2019 William then says: \u2018I\u2019m not sure I like who you\u2019re turning into.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Not sure I like who you\u2019ve been,\u2019 Harry angrily replies.<\/p>\n
In Spare, there is no suggestion that William and Kate were ever at the fancy dress shop at the same time. But Harry does very much paint himself as a victim, claiming the pair promised to help him find a suitable outfit.<\/p>\n
The prince says he called them to discuss his options, explaining it was a toss-up between the uniform of an RAF pilot or a Nazi.<\/p>\n
He wrote: \u2018I phoned Willy and Kate, asked what they thought. Nazi uniform, they said.\u2019 He describes taking it home and trying it on for them \u2013 adding a \u2018proper Hitler\u2019 moustache \u2013 and \u2018they both howled\u2019.<\/p>\n
He said William was \u2018sympathetic\u2019 at the resulting furore but \u2018there wasn\u2019t much to say\u2019. His father was surprisingly understanding, but a public apology was deemed necessary.<\/p>\n
The Crown\u2019s award-winning writer, Peter Morgan, has insisted he hasn\u2019t read \u2018a word\u2019 of Spare, adding: \u2018I didn\u2019t want his voice to inhabit my thinking too much’.<\/p>\n