THE Crown’s portrayal of a bullied Prince Charles sleeping beneath a broken window in a Scottish boarding school is “absolutely preposterous”, a schoolmate has claimed.
The popular Netflix drama depicts the heir to the throne being ostracised and tormented at a freezing and dilapidated version of Gordonstoun School, near Elgin. Retired civil servant Hugh Lamont said the drama bears “no resemblance whatsoever” to the school he attended with Charles in the early 1960s.
“It was actually a very happy school and I think most people enjoyed it,” he told BBC Radio Scotland.
“The Crown made it look like some form of correctional institution and it was just totally wrong.”
Mr Lamont called into question an oft-repeated claim that Charles called Gordonstoun “Colditz in kilts” – likening it to the Nazi PoW camp.
He acknowledged that pupils were subjected to cold showers and early morning runs, but said bullying and physical violence were “very unusual”.
“The thing in The Crown where he had to sleep under a broken window is absolutely preposterous,” he said.
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