Judi Dench isn't a fan of the 'cruelly unjust' depiction of the royals on 'The Crown'

Judi Dench says she worries viewers will see the series 'brilliant but fictionalised account' of the royal family as 'wholly true'. Photo: Reuters

Actor Judi Dench will probably press skip on the next season of Netflix's The Crown. In an open letter she wrote to the British newspaper The Times, the Oscar winner dismissed the Emmy-winning series as "inaccurate and hurtful".

"The closer the drama comes to our present times, the more freely art seems willing to blur the lines between historical accuracy and crude sensationalism," Dench wrote in her letter published on Oct 20 in Britain with the headline "The Crown is crude and cruel, says Dame Judi Dench."