The fifth season of Netflix's hit series "The Crown," about the life of Queen Elizabeth, was released earlier this week. However, it was a season two episode of the show that prompted Prince Philip, who died in 2021, to consider suing Netflix over a 2017 episode in which he implied that it was his fault that his sister, Princess Cecile, died in a plane crash in 1937 Insider" reports. He eventually dropped the matter so that the episode would not draw further attention.

Royal commentator and author Hugo Vickers told The Sunday Times (opens in new tab) that Philip contacted his lawyers about his intention to seek legal retaliation against Netflix, specifically regarding the season 2 episode "Paterfamilias" He said he told them that it was related to the A dramatic retelling of the tragedy, it depicts a scene in which young Philip attends his sister's funeral and is told by his father, Prince Andrew of the Kingdom of Greece and Denmark, that Cecile's death was his fault," "Insider" reported. Philip was only 16 years old when Cecil died.

"He was very upset by the way it was portrayed," Vickers said. 'He was a human being. He could have been hurt just as much as anyone else."

"He was a human being.

The episode implies that Cecile, 26 at the time of her death, decided to fly to England to visit her brother Philip, who was at boarding school, after causing problems and subsequently being punished by not being allowed to go to Germany for a vacation, Insider reported. Vickers previously said that the implication that Philip was involved in his sister's death was the "worst claim" the program had ever made.

"I know Prince Philip was very upset about that episode and the way his family was treated," Vickers said.

In the end, Philip did not sue Netflix, but royal commentator and film critic Richard Fitzwilliam tells Insider that this was not shocking at all. The problem with the royal family," he says, "is that the moment they decide to sue or take someone to court, that's when they get the most attention. 'The reason he didn't do it is because the whole world would have heard about it and perhaps some would have believed it might have been true.'