Prince Harry admitted to watching the hit Netflix show “The Crown” and said he even makes sure to “fact-check” the show about the royal family.
Appearing on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in an episode that aired Tuesday, the Duke of Sussex discussed the controversial drama series when asked if he’s “binged” anything on TV lately.
After teasing he has, Colbert asked if “The Crown” was one of the shows, saying he “had to have watched some” of it since it’s based on Harry’s late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
“Yes, I have watched some of The Crown,” the 38-year-old revealed, before Colbert asked if he’s watched any of the recent episodes.
“The older stuff and the more recent stuff,” Harry clarified.
The exiled royal was then asked if he did any “fact-checking” while watching the show, prompting an animated response from Harry followed by laughter from the audience.
“Yes, I do actually,” the father-of-two revealed. “Which, by the way, is another reason why it’s so important that history has it right.”
Harry first admitted to dabbling in the hit Netflix show, which is in its fifth season, in Feb. 2021 during an expansive interview with “The Late Late Show” host James Corden.
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Harry told Corden that he prefers watching the show to reading headlines about him and his wife, Meghan Markle.
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The most recent season centered around the tumultuous marriage — and divorce — of his parents, Diana Spencer (played by Elizabeth Debicki) and the now-monarch Charles (Dominic West).
“They don’t pretend to be news — it’s fictional, but it’s loosely based on the truth,” he said of the show. “It gives you a rough idea about what the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else — what can come from that.”
“I’m way more comfortable with ‘The Crown’ than I am seeing the stories written about my family or my wife or myself,” he continued. “That is obviously fiction — take it how you will — but this is being reported on as fact because it’s supposedly news. I have a real issue with that.”
Harry’s brother, Prince William, reportedly wasn’t happy with season 4 of the Golden Globe-nominated hit.
