“The music is wonderful, the story is beautiful,” she said. “You feel very proud to watch it. I can’t speak for everyone, but that’s how I felt when I watched it.”

Eugenie also named Kate Beckinsale as the actress she’d like to see portray her on the show.

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2. Sarah Ferguson

Eugenie’s mother Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York said she enjoyed seeing her wedding featured on the show, and even offered her services as a consultant. She told Town and Country magazine in 2021 that she wrote to Andy Harries, one of the show’s executive producers. “I said to him, ‘Why can’t I help my character?’” Ferguson said.

Her offer was declined, but that hasn’t stopped her from enjoying The Crown. “I thought it was filmed beautifully,” she told Us Weekly in 2021. “The cinematography was excellent. I loved the way they put my wedding in as well.”

3. Princess Anne

In an ITV documentary, Princess Anne said she watched some earlier episodes, calling them “quite interesting”.

In the 2020 ITV documentary Anne: The Princess Royal at 70, Anne said that she couldn’t believe it took that long. “Actually I read an article the other day about the – I don’t watch Netflix and The Crown – but the actress was talking about how long it took them to do their hair like I did,” she said. “And I’m thinking, ‘How could you possibly take that long?’ I mean, it takes me 10 or 15 minutes.”

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4. Charles Spencer

Princess Diana’s brother Charles Spencer said that he refused to let The Crown film at his family’s Althorp House estate.

“They applied. They wanted to shoot here. But I don’t really do that stuff,” Spencer said on BBC Breakfast in 2021. “Actually, to be honest, I don’t watch The Crown so I just said: ‘Thank you, but no thank you,’” he added.

Spencer also expressed concerns about the show in an appearance on the ITV show Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh.

“The worry for me is that people see a programme like that and they forget that it is fiction,” Spencer said, per Hello! magazine. “They assume, especially foreigners. I find Americans tell me they have watched The Crown as if they have taken a history lesson. Well, they haven’t.”

5-6. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry

Prince Harry told James Corden that he’s “way more comfortable with The Crown” than tabloid stories that “pretend to be news”.

“It’s fictional … But it’s loosely based on the truth,” Harry said in a 2021 appearance on The Late Late Show With James Corden. “It gives you a rough idea about what that lifestyle, what the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that. I’m way more comfortable with The Crown than I am seeing the stories written about my family, or my wife, or myself.”

Harry also told Corden that he’d want Damian Lewis to play him on the show.

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7-8. Zara and Mike Tindall

“Obviously, I look very similar to all of them!” Zara joked.

In 2020, Mike said he got halfway through season three and needed to catch up. “I actually saw the advert for it and I was like, ‘Ooh, I need to catch up,’” Mike said on a 2020 episode of the podcast The Good, The Bad, and The Rugby. “Because I only got about halfway through season three, so I started watching season three last night and then I’ll catch up.”

He continued: “I’m quite intrigued to see where they go with it because obviously it’s an era people are fascinated with. It’s getting to more things that people know about, isn’t it, and have opinions about – so that’s where it gets difficult. But remember everyone, it is a drama, so it’s going to be made into a bit of a drama.”

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9. Queen Consort Camilla

At a reception for International Women’s Day at Clarence House in March, Camilla acknowledged attendee Emerald Fennell, who played her in the show’s third and fourth seasons.

“For me, it’s very reassuring to know that if I should fall off my perch at any moment, my fictional alter ego is here to take over,” Camilla said in her remarks at the event. “So, Emerald – be prepared!”

In an interview with Radio Times magazine in October, Dominic West, who plays Prince Charles in the show, also said that Camilla jokingly greeted him as “Your Majesty” at an event in 2021 after his casting was announced.