The Netflix drama won't show the “exact moment of the crash impact” that led to Princess Diana's fatal injuries, but it may show similarly grim season six scenes.
Since the period drama's sixth season is now in production, we know that The Crown will cover Diana's death, and Netflix has already revealed exactly how much of the tragedy will play out on screen. “The exact moment of the crash impact will not be shown,” a spokesperson for the streamer told The Sun in October.
The fifth season of The Crown does not cover Princess Diana's death. The fifth season's 10 episodes stretch about a decade, from the late 1980s to mid-1997, just a few weeks before Diana's death at the end of August that year.
Diana, of course, passed away following a tragic car crash in Paris twenty-five years ago — and while showrunner Peter Morgan has said that the event itself will not be dramatised, there will be two weeks of filming with Diana actress Elizabeth Debicki covering the moments leading up to her untimely demise.
Season 6, production on which has begun, will cover the period following season 5's focus on Prince Charles and Diana's divorce, beginning with the 1997 death of Princess Diana and continuing on into the 21st century.
Final Season
Netflix announced in July 2020 that The Crown will end after six seasons, though the length was briefly in question. Though Morgan initially pitched the series as six seasons long, the creator had decided to end the show after only five seasons earlier that year.
The Netflix hit's creator, Peter Morgan, revealed that the Duchess of Sussex will never be featured on the drama, which covers the inner workings and melodrama of the British royal family.
What were Princess Diana's last words? The firefighter on the scene of Princess Diana's accident revealed the last words she spoke before her death in an interview with The Independent. According to the firefighter, Xavier Gourmelon, the Princess of Wales asked: “My God, what has happened?”
Above all we give thanks for the life of a woman I am so proud to be able to call my sister, the unique, the complex, the extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana whose beauty, both internal and external, will never be extinguished from our minds.
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What years will season 5 of The Crown cover? The Crown season 5 will pick up where The Crown season 4 wraps up, which is in late 1990. This means the series is likely to cover the 1990s - a turbulent time for the Queen and the Royal Family.
Who will play Princess Diana and Prince Charles in season 6 of The Crown? Elizabeth Debicki will reprise her role as Diana, Princess of Wales in season six, having taken over from Emma Corrin in season five.
She was introduced onto the show in season 4 as a young woman played by English actor Emma Corrin. In the recently released season 5, she is played by Australian actor Elizabeth Debicki.
Elizabeth Debicki – who has had starring roles in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, Steve McQueen's Widows and Christopher Nolan's Tenet – will take over the role of Diana, Princess of Wales from Emma Corrin in season five of The Crown.
The final season of The Crown will take the series from the '90s to the early 2000s. The events of that decade were initially planned as one season (Season 5 was due to be the last), but will now span two to allow for greater detail.
If you watch the footage, Princess Margaret was not the only person who didn't bow her head as the coffin passed. There was nothing significant in that. That the one person in the UK who does not need to bow to anyone DID, WAS significant.
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A firefighter who led the response team pulled Diana from the wreckage. He said that the princess asked him, "My God, what has happened?" It was only later that he found out the victim was Princess Diana, and that these would be her final words.
They did this to avoid the nearly thirty photographers waiting in front of the hotel. Diana and Fayed were the rear passengers; Trevor Rees-Jones, a member of the Fayed family's personal protection team, was in the (right) front passenger seat. None of the occupants were wearing seat belts.
The Queen thought Diana quite suitable for Charles. “She was very much a hit with the royal family—they really warmed to her,” Chernock says. “Diana worked very, very hard to ingratiate herself and to model what she thought being a princess would entail, and she did it very successfully.”
Diana suffered several injuries in the crash. She had a concussion, broken arm and a cut to her thigh, according to United Press International. But her most lethal injuries were severe chest wounds. She had a tear to her left pulmonary vein that caused internal bleeding, The Independent reported.
What will Kate's title be when Prince William eventually becomes king? When William accedes to the throne he will be king, but Duchess Kate won't be queen in the same way that Queen Elizabeth II is queen—instead, she'll have the title Queen Consort.
While some members of the royal family, like Prince William and his late grandfather Prince Philip, have chosen to abstain from watching the fictionalized retelling of the late Queen Elizabeth II's reign, others have openly admitted to turning on the critically acclaimed series.
He says Netflix's ripped-from-the-headlines royals series is “why it's so important that history has it right.”
UPDATE: “The Crown” suspended production on Friday in honor of the Queen's death, Variety has confirmed. The series is currently in the middle of shooting its sixth and supposedly final season. “As a mark of respect, filming on 'The Crown' was suspended today,” a Netflix source confirmed.