Welcome to the Unofficial Subreddit for the Emmy Award-Winning Netflix Original Series 'The Crown' created by Peter Morgan. The Crown is a fictional drama series inspired by real events and tells the story of Queen Elizabeth II and the political and personal events that shaped her reign. This subreddit is a place to discuss the series and more that relate to the topic. The final season of The Crown is now available to stream.
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I can only assume that an attempt to avoid confusing the audience as well as to streamline the story was what drove the showrunners to substitute him with Prince Philip's private secretary Michael Parker. And to save on cast salaries too I guess
I think it was also done to keep with the story about the Parker’s divorce, to raise up discrimination issues in du or even matters (the wife must prove why she wants to divorce,how humiliating is that?), and the whole issue about royal marriage. Otherwise it would have been less intense and personal if it was just a private secretary
David Mountbatten also got divorced in 1954, and was ejected from the royal family. None of the royals attended his second wedding.
Ah si May be Parker’s story is a fiction of two real stories ? It was also a basis so that the show could go and talk about Perfumo scandal, ballerinas, and escort girls that Philipp probably “met”
Possibly that and a combination of not having to cast another actor for the role.
The Crown often got Philip’s side of the family wrong and was generally quite lazy with the extended royal family.
But Mike Parker was never shown to be Philip's best man at his wedding in the show.
Yes he was. They clearly used the same actor and in fact when his divorce scandal hit the papers, he was shown standing next to Philip at his wedding as Elizabeth was standing next to him