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What years will Season 6 of The Crown cover?
The Crown’s fifth season ended in 1997, as Princess Diana was invited to holiday in St. Tropez with Mohamed Al-Fayed (she would perish later that year, in August). Season 6 should pick up where it left off, and stretch to at least 2005, given that the streaming giant has teased that the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles will feature in the series. Per Variety, Claudia Harrison, who plays Princess Anne in Seasons 5 and 6, has said that the wedding was the final scene the cast shot.
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Will The Crown Season 6 cover the death of Princess Diana?
Yes. On October 12, 2022, Deadline reported that the cast and crew of The Crown were gearing up to film scenes that showed the run-up to Princess Diana’s death, alongside her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997. The show’s creator, Peter Morgan, has made it clear that the crash itself will not be shown on screen. Instead, we’re likely to see “the car leaving The Ritz after midnight with paparazzi in pursuit and then the aftermath with the British Ambassador to France swinging into action with the Foreign Office and then the subsequent constitutional aftermath,” according to a source on the production. “We’ve been dreading getting to this point,” they added of the shoot. “While we’re calmly carrying on, it’s fair to acknowledge that there’s a certain anxiety—a palpable sense of being slightly on edge. I mean, there’s bombshell sensitivity surrounding this one.” Also set to be depicted? Prince Charles arriving on a royal flight to bring Diana’s body home to London, and Mohamed Al-Fayed experiencing casual racism from the French authorities when taking possession of his son’s casket.
On November 1, more photos emerged from the set, this time showing Debicki in an animal print swimsuit that is an almost exact replica of one Princess Diana donned while holidaying with Dodi Fayed in the Mediterranean just weeks before her death. It suggests that Diana’s whirlwind final summer will also be a particular focus of Season 6.
Is there a trailer for The Crown Season 6?
There isn’t an official trailer just yet, but on October 9, Netflix dropped a teaser that shows different iterations of the Queen, as played by Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, and Imelda Staunton walking through Buckingham Palace. It also reveals that the final season will be released in two parts, almost a month apart.