Dear Oliver,

Hello Mr. Oliver Dowden, nice to meet you. You don't know me, I didn't know you until last week either, but now I do. You introduced yourself to me in a rather amusing way. You got up last week and thought: and now it's over. It touched your heart that your queen, your crown was so spat upon and ridiculed. And all because of that twisted Netflix series. Just when it was all a bit calmer in the royal pond (Andrews mugs and postcards have been wiped from the souvenir shop, Meghan and Harry were in LA) and bam, there Netflix presents season 4 of The Crown. And, you saw it, I saw it: the dogs wouldn't want any of that.

Camilla received hate, Diana love (there's news going around that they have closed their Instagram account for comments, but that's not true at all), so you decided it was enough. You rolled up your sleeves and thought about a good letter. So you started constructively. That it was a beautiful series. Truly. But a fictional series. And that had to be stated. Because oh, people might think it was really that terrible. Well, Mr. Oliver, you are 42 years old, so you either just experienced it or just didn't. I guess the latter. I think it's sweet that you stand up for the queen like that, but I do want to point out to you what was fiction and what was fact in the series.

1. The disabled cousins
They were there, you know. And they were also hidden away. They were thought to be dead, but were alive in a madhouse, simply because the Queen thought that was a better idea. What is fiction is that Margaret didn't find out, but a journalist did. I want to give you that point. But further…

2. Charles and Camilla
That is also a fact. The bracelet, Fred & Ginger, everything. The only thing the series slightly exaggerated was the name of the location where Camilla and Diana had lunch (Menage à Trois), that is made up. Terribly silly and totally unnecessary if you ask me, but further… All true, Mr. Dowden. Also the lunch.

3. Diana's eating problem
All true, Mr. Dowden. Moreover, if you have seen the Netflix documentary Diana in her own words, you see that it was even a notch worse. Diana even threw herself down the stairs while pregnant because she couldn't see a way out of life anymore. Her whole belly was blue. The series doesn't even mention that.

Maybe I agree with you and the series deserves an addition from Netflix. Very, very small bits are a bit dramatized, dear young viewers. But the reality was possibly even worse than what you see here.

Shall we do it this way?