The multi-part series that gave insight into the Royal House of Windsor was a well-done and engaging documentary. For those who enjoyed the Crown on Netflix, watching this series will give a bit more detail into what happened throughout the Netflix series.
My complaint about The Royal House of Windsor is the portrayal of Diana. The historians featured in the series talked about Diana as if she was a devious and conniving woman.
As a woman, I'm sick of this trope that mainstream media give to women who don't follow protocol. If Diana was a man, she'd be given the title of a trailblazer. Instead, the commentary gave viewers the notion that every single good deed she did was supposed to be a jab at her husband and the House of Windsor.
They portrayed her as a media manipulator while also decrying her as a mentally-ill uneducated oaf. Even if she was as manipulative as described in this episode, at least give her credit for what she chose to use her celebrity for. The woman went out of her way to hug AIDS victims at a time when people wouldn't even touch them. and yet there wasn't any commentary that praised this brazen move.
It may sound like I am a Diana superfan--I am not. It just seemed fishy that Prince Charles's affair with Camilla was mentioned in a mere sentence and the commentary on Diana's mental stability went on for the entire episode.
A well-done documentary would allow the viewer to make their own opinion about the events that have unfolded. While I was very engaged during the first several episodes, the Diana episode felt too editorialized and left a bad taste in my mouth. I came away thinking that this production worked very closely with the Windsors (funny how this series got hold of all these exclusive documents decades later) to send a message to the public that their former hero was really a conniving and dumb woman.
Sad that a series made in 2017 would make such a move.