The most favourite historical drama, “The Crown” whose subject deals with the powerful reign of Queen Elizabeth II, has created a controversy in recent times. In one of the episodes of this series a derogatory remark has been made on Queen Elizabeth II.

Terra Nullius:

The sixth episode of “The Crown” begins with the interview of Bob Hawke, set in the year 1983 which was basically arranged for the grand welcome of Prince Charles and Princess Diana to the commonwealth nation. Bob Hawke character was strongly performed by Richard Roxburgh, an Australian actor more popularly known for children’ s literature too.

While the conversation was on Peter Morgan the scriptwriter of “The Crown” conveyed the sayings of Hawke. These are the exact words of Hawke in the episode Terra Nullius.

” An unelected non – Australian who lives on the other side of the world and, for all their good intentions, is a different breed. You would not put a pig incharge of a heard of prime beef cattle, even if it did look good in a twinset and pearls.”

Opposing words from 4 Corners:

As soon as the controversy talk began, 4 corners have come up with few evidences which they posted in their official twitter page. It includes a short clipping of Bob Hawke’ interview. In that clipping, Hawke did never mention about or called Queen in a disparaging term.

To be accurate they also mentioned about the date and place of Bob Hawke’s interview. The actual interview took place on February 12, but in “The Crown”, it is set as the interview took place on February 26. Also, the event took place in Melbourne and not in Canberra as “The Crown” portrayed.

In the short clipping Bob Hawke made comment on Prince Charles as a “nice young bloke” (a phrase included in “The Crown” too) and nothing much.

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