A former member of John Major’s cabinet has slammed The Crown’s fictitious series plot which suggests King Charles – then Prince of Wales – had encouraged the ex-prime minister to convince the Queen she should abdicate.
David Mellor, who was Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Secretary of State for National Heritage, insisted the ex-PM would not have been party to ‘what he would have regarded… as a treasonous discussion’.
The former MP expressed his concern that people would ‘believe