As royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith wrote in The Times: “Contrary to ‘The Crown,’ which has Charles pushing against his resistant mother and father to send a Royal Air Force plane to ...

The crown’s real estate portfolio is valued at 16.5 billion pounds ($21 billion), and the monarch enjoys a broad exemption from most taxes, as well as many other laws.

Season six of “The Crown,” which covers the events between 1997 and 2005, including the death of Princess Diana, has the series’ worst reviews with a 52% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Crown showrunner Peter Morgan has spent a large chunk of his career dramatizing the British royal family. In addition to The Crown, which wrapped last December after six seasons, Morgan also ...

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 17, 2023, Section SR, Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: ‘The Crown’ Gets the Royal Family’s Power Exactly Right.