John Armstrong of The Guardian: Real or Not – The Crown. If you are looking for John Armstrong’s article on Princess Alice titled “The Royal Saint” on The Guardian, we’re sad to tell you that it unfortunately does not exist. While Princess Alice and her captivating life story as presented on The Crown is the real deal, she was not actually interviewed by one John Armstrong because the journalist is a fictional character.

From The Times: “There was no ‘John Armstrong’ and even were he to have existed, he would not have written a damning front-page Guardian review of the documentary, not least because the documentary went out on a Saturday and was old news by Monday’s paper. The paper’s TV reviewer, Stanley Reynolds, merely noted that Her Majesty was ‘a delightful surprise’.”
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