Matt Smith: Queen watched ‘The Crown,’ Prince Harry called me ‘Grandad’

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died on Sept. 8 at 96 — did, in fact, view the Netflix royal family drama.The British actor, who portrayed the monarch’s late husband Prince Philip in Seasons 1 and 2, dished how she watched the show.“I heard the queen had watched it,” the “House of the Dragon” star, 39, said on a Thursday appearance on the Today show. “And she used to watch it on a projector on a Sunday night apparently.”As for the Duke Edinburgh, who died last April at 99, Smith noted that he didn’t stream the series. “I know that Philip definitely didn’t,” he said. “My friend sat next to him at [a] dinner and asked.

I think Philip asked my friend if he made ‘The Crown.’ [My friend said,] ‘I can’t resist. Have you watched ‘The Crown?’ [And then Philip] turned around and said, ‘Don’t be ridiculous.'”Smith also added that there was a moment at an event when he met Prince Harry and shook his hand and the former royal dropped a joke on him.“[Harry called me] Grandad,” Smith said. “I can’t claim to know if he watches it currently, but he watched a bit then,” he said.Harry previously confessed that he watched some of the series with his wife Meghan Markle.

The Duke of Sussex, 37, stopped by “The Late Late Show With James Corden” in February 2021 and noted how the series was a little fictitious.“It’s loosely based on the truth,” Harry said. “Of course, it’s not strictly accurate. … It gives you a rough idea of what that lifestyle, what the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that.”However, Harry preferred the show over news reports.“I’m way more comfortable with ‘The Crown’ than I am seeing the stories written about my family or my wife or myself because it’s the difference between [‘The Crown’] is.