The latest season of ‘The Crown‘ shows the beginning of Prince William’s love story with Kate Middleton. Their relationship is not one of the main plots of the series, but it has certainly been one of the most talked about by viewers, and in general the marriage has come out quite well.
However, there are those within the Middleton family who have not been at all happy with the way they are portrayed in fiction, especially the matriarch Carole Middleton, whom the British press has always considered a kind of middle-class Kris Jenner who has managed from the shadows the lives of her three children.
Carole’s brother, Gary Goldsmith, believes she should take legal action against the show’s producers for the way they portray her orchestrating the romance between his daughter and Prince William while they were students at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
To be fair, the series does not turn Carole Middleton into a controlling character willing to do anything to make her daughter the next queen of England. Rather, it shows her as a well-meaning advisor, although it leaves unanswered questions such as why she encouraged Kate to change universities at the last minute to go to Scotland.
Or why she convinced her to do her volunteer year in Chile, the same country Prince William was in, although they didn’t get to coincide there. Kate Middleton herself, played by Meg Bellamy in the series, even wonders during one of the episodes if it was all part of a Carole’s harebrained scheme to make their paths cross.
