'The Crown's' Prince Philip Plot Line Upsets Royals and Insiders
, the royal family and those who support them seem to become even more offended than they were the year before. This time, the palace is said to be up in arms about a plot line involving the late getting “intimate” with family friend Penny Knatchbull—emotionally intimate, that is. Even if the fictional prince does nothing more than some light hand-touching and confidence-sharing about his marriage, people think implying Philip ever pursued an affair is in poor taste, coming so soon after died, according to the . “Coming just weeks after the nation laid Her Majesty to rest next to Prince Philip, this is very distasteful and, quite frankly, cruel rubbish,” Queen Elizabeth's former press secretary Dickie Arbiter said, Britishly.