How The Crown and The Secret TV dramas show ethical problems of dramatising real events
Artistic licence: Elizabeth Debicki as Diana in The Crown
Dr Lauren Bradford-Clarke, daughter of killer dentist Colin Howell, inhabits a very different world to the royal family, and yet she will know intimately the trauma they must be feeling at seeing their lives embellished and exploited for TV drama The Crown.
When ITV broadcast The Secret, a drama based on the murders by her father and Hazel Stewart of her mother Lesley and Hazel’s husband, RUC constable Trevor Buchanan, she laid bare what it’s like to feel powerless as the entertainment juggernaut rolled over her wishes in a blaze of publicity.
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