Truth be told, some of it didn’t happen ...

There is a general consensus that The Crown has an assured touch when it comes to the British monarchy and political landscape it re-imagines.

It appears next to perfect too, when it comes to the look, feel, fashion and tastes of the time.

But there are obvious fabrications.

It is unlikely, for instance, that the young Queen took royal advice from the loathsome and disgraced Edward VIII, as she does in series one. There is certainly no record of it.

Nor did the Great London Smog of 1952 precipitate a constitutional crisis or create personal tension between Churchill and Elizabeth.

If Philip made a fuss about having to kneel before his Queen at her coronation a year later, which he does in series one, there is no record of it.

More tellingly, in a pivotal scene in the second series, correspondence emerges that incriminates Philip’s private secretary Michael Parker in serial adultery. There was no such letter.

Last week, Parker’s son Michael rubbished the plot and insisted that, if anything, his late father was a prude.

So offended is he by the storyline that he’s keeping it a secret from his 94-year-old mother, who is depicted in the series as a vengeful, scorned wife.

A liberty too far by the Netflix drama that otherwise seems to have walked the wobbly tightrope leading from fact to fiction with a certain aplomb.