Matt Smith, who portrayed Prince Philip on 'The Crown,' revealed Prince Harry once called him 'grandad' and Queen Elizabeth II used to watch the hit Netflix show.
For the first two seasons of"The Crown," Smith played the younger version of The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip. He played the real-life character from the time he and the queen were married in 1947 to her coronation in 1953 to the birth of Prince Edward in 1963.
The role then was passed on to Tobias Menzies, who played Prince Philip throughout season 3 and 4, which covered events from 1964 to the early 1990s. It seems the real-life inspiration behind the character wasn’t too happy with the idea of his family’s history playing out on a television show. A friend of Smith’s encountered Prince Philip at an event and couldn’t help but ask him what he thought of the show.
"A friend of mine sat next to him at [a] dinner once, and he asked him. Actually, I think Philip asked my friend if he made ‘,’" he said."The first course came out, and then the second course came out, and then the third course came out, and my friend couldn’t resist by the end of the meal. He was like, ‘Philip I have to ask, have you watched ‘The Crown?' And he apparently turned around and went, ‘Don’t be ridiculous.
"I’m way more comfortable with ‘The Crown’ than I am seeing the stories written about my family or my wife [Meghan Markle] or myself because it’s the difference between [‘The Crown’] is obviously fiction. Take it how you will, but this is being reported on as fact because you’re supposedly news. I have a real issue with that," Harry said on the show.
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