The Crown producer Andy Harries reveals the series could return with a spin-off featuring ‘fairly tasteless events’ including Fergie’s toe-sucking scandal
The Crown producer Andy Harries has revealed that the hit series may return with a spin-off featuring ‘rather tawdry events’ involving other royals.
The Left Bank Pictures co-founder, 69, admitted that members of the royal family’s “inner circle” have been “in contact” with raunchy and scandalous stories.
Speaking about the Have you seen it? podcast, Andy said many events were left out of the series because they “took the high road,” but added, “I think one day Peter [Morgan] or other producers could reveal many of the stories we decided not to publish.”
He added: “Fergie doesn’t play a major role in the series. We didn’t do the toe sucking story.
“It wasn’t because it wasn’t a good or interesting story, but it wasn’t central to the theme of the show… it was a sideshow and I think we did a good job of avoiding the silly sideshows.”
The Crown producer Andy Harries has revealed that the hit series may return with a spin-off featuring ‘fairly tasteless events, including Fergie’s toe-sucking scandal.
The co-founder of Left Bank Pictures admitted that members of the royal family’s ‘inner circle’ have been ‘in touch’ with raunchy and scandalous stories (Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew in 2019)
Andy also revealed that members of ‘the royal family’ had been in touch.
He continued, “Koo Stark called me, she spoke to me right away and offered her services. She was a friend of Prince Andrew for a short time.”
The photographer and actress met the Duke of York, who was then second in line to the throne, after being introduced by a mutual acquaintance on his 21st birthday in February 1981.
Their relationship was discovered a year and a half later and Koo was subjected to frenzied media attention.
Sarah, known as Fergie, and Prince Andrew divorced 27 years ago but still live together at the Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park.
One of Fergie’s most embarrassing blunders was when photos were published showing her toes being sucked by her financial advisor John Bryan at her holiday villa in St Tropez.
The pair were also seen kissing, embracing and romping in the pool.
She was also said to have had a falling out with her once close friend, Princess Diana, after she claimed she developed a wart after borrowing a pair of shoes from her.
Speaking about the Have you seen it? podcast, Andy said: ‘Koo Stark called me, she contacted me straight away and offered her services. She was briefly a friend of Prince Andrew (Koo and Prince Andrew pictured)
They were reportedly still not speaking at the time of Diana’s death in 1997.
And in 2010 she apologized after being secretly recorded offering to sell access to Andrew in return for £500,000.
The first part of the sixth and final series of The Crown aired on November 16 and followed the eight weeks leading up to Princess Diana’s tragic death.
The series’ opening moments show the moments leading up to the car crash that killed Diana and Dodi (Khalid Abdalla), before flashing back to eight weeks earlier.
Netflix emphasized during production of series six that viewers will not see the moment of the crash that killed Diana and Dodi Fayed. But the episode does play audio of the fatal incident.