Heavy Lies The Crown: The balancing act between truth and entertainment when it comes to fictionalised real-life dramas
Having portrayed both Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria on the big screen, Dame Judi Dench is no stranger to royal dramatisations.
While her role in Mrs Brown — which charted the unlikely friendship between Queen Victoria and a Scottish servant, John Brown — was a fictionalised version of a real-life story, Shakespeare in Love played fast and loose with the truth.
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