The lead-up to the release of The Crown’s fifth season has arguably been its most anticipated one to date, with the fictionalized version of the Royal Family embarking on what the late Queen herself described as her annus horribilis. From the return of familiar faces like Group Captain Peter Townsend to Princess Diana’s infamous Panorama interview, Peter Morgan and his team pulled out all the stops and brought audiences back to one of the House of Windsor’s most scandal-driven decades—but just how much of it was true? 

We’ve compiled some of this season’s most shocking and intriguing moments and classified them as whether or not they actually happened or if there is any semblance of truth to them because, as many wise sages on the internet have pointed out, there is only one way to watch The Crown: by having Google fired up and ready for any random searches. 

The Mary Sue