Elizabeth accuses Winston Churchill of delaying her coronation by a year for political gain.What probably happened is that a researcher for the show misstook a photo of Princess Alice ◊ at Elizabeth's coronation as being from her wedding. She was in fact middle-aged and didn't join a convent until 1949. At Elizabeth's wedding, Philip's mother appears as an old woman in a nun's habit.Prince Philip wears a medal commemorating Elizabeth's 1953 coronation while touring Africa in 1952.Eisenhower didn't use the phrase until his 1961 farewell speech. Preparing for a state dinner in 1953 with President Eisenhower, Elizabeth is told that he is worried about the 'military-industrial complex'.Charles and Anne are shown attending a party at their parent's home in Malta celebrating Philip's promotion, when in fact they remained with their grandparents in Britain, while Elizabeth and Philip were in Malta.His naturalization actually took place in March earlier that year, in part so that the public would get used to seeing him as British naval officer, rather than a foreign prince (although he'd been in the Royal Navy for eight years at that point, having joined as a cadet in 1939). Philip's naturalization as a British subject is shown being concurrent with his creation as Duke of Edinburgh the day before his marriage to Elizabeth.However, it would have been a couple of decades before she ascended the throne (the former Edward VIII died in 1972), not to mention her father would have probably lived longer. In reality, Edward VIII was 42 years old at the time of the abdication with no children of his own, and Wallis Simpson was 40 even before he became king, it was considered unlikely that he would produce an heir of his own, which would have left Elizabeth in line for the crown, abdication or not. There is a pervasive theme of Elizabeth resenting the position that her uncle's abdication placed her in, stating that she could have otherwise avoided the burden of the crown.The closer the show has got to the present day, the more of an issue this has become, to the point where cabinet ministers have gone on record as saying that Netflix should precede each episode with a warning about content being a fictional dramatisation of real-life events.

Although The Crown is well-researched in terms of costumes and character idiosyncracies, some major historical inaccuracies persist.

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