Judi Dench, here in 2018, would like 'The Crown' to include a disclaimer.

Dame Judi Dench wants a disclaimer for the ‘cruelly unjust’ Season 5 of ‘The Crown.’

Dame Judi Dench has previously played a British queen, and she is now speaking out about Netflix’s popular dramatisation of the royal family.

The revered actress expresses her concerns about the upcoming new season of “The Crown” in a letter to The Times, writing that “the closer the drama comes to our present times, the more freely it seems willing to blur the lines between historical accuracy and crude sensationalism.”

“While many will recognise The Crown for the brilliant but fictionalised account of events that it is,” Dench writes, “I fear that a significant number of viewers, particularly overseas, may take its version of history as being wholly true.” “Given some of the apparently wounding suggestions in the new series — that King Charles plotted his mother’s abdication, for example, or once suggested his mother’s parenting was so deficient that she deserved a jail sentence — this is both cruelly unjust to the individuals and damaging to the institution they represent.”

Season 5 of the show premieres in the United States on November 9 and is set in the 1990s in Britain.

“As Queen Elizabeth II (Imelda Staunton) approaches the 40th anniversary of her accession, she reflects on a reign that has included nine prime ministers, the introduction of mass television, and the twilight of the British Empire,” according to a Netflix synopsis of the new season. “However, new challenges loom on the horizon.”

Dench’s concerns are similar to those of former Prime Minister Sir John Major, who recently told The Mail that a scene depicting him and then-Prince Charles (played by Dominic West) discussing a plot to depose his mother Queen Elizabeth while Major was in office was “a barrel load of malicious nonsense.”

Major has called for a boycott of the show, which Netflix has defended as “fictionalised drama.”

“No one believes in artistic freedom more than I do, but this cannot go unchallenged,” Dench wrote. “Despite publicly stating this week that The Crown has always been a “fictionalised drama,” the show’s creators have resisted all calls for a disclaimer at the start of each episode.”

“The time has come for Netflix to reconsider — for the sake of a bereaved family and a nation, as a mark of respect to a sovereign who served her people so dutifully for 70 years, and to preserve its reputation in the eyes of its British subscribers,” added Dench, who won an Oscar for her role as Elizabeth I in the 1998 film “Shakespeare in Love.”

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