The Crown's Final Season Will Not Depict Princess Diana's Car Crash

As The Crown prepares to shoot the final days of Princess Diana's life, Netflix has vowed not to show the car crash that took her life. Get all of the details here.

By Daniel Trainor Oct 20, 2022 8:42 PMTags
Watch: Elizabeth Debicki Portrays Princess Diana With Sons in The Crown

The Crown will be delicate with Princess Diana's final moments.

As the sixth and final season of the Netflix drama prepares to shoot the events leading up to Diana's 1997 fatal car crash in Paris, the streamer has vowed to show restraint when it comes to the tragic event itself. In a statement to The Sun, Netflix said, "The exact moment of the crash impact will not be shown."

The news comes on the heels of a Deadline report that revealed tensions in production were running high as the series filmed Diana's last days.

"We've been dreading getting to this point," a source told the publication Oct. 12. "The countdown is two weeks and 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."

As for how the series plans to depict the tragedy?

"It's the run-up," the outlet reported. "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."

photos
The Crown Season 5 Photos

Elizabeth Debicki, who takes over the role of Diana from Emma Corrin in season five of The Crown, will also play Diana in season six.

The upcoming fifth season has already been the source of major controversy weeks before it even hits the streamer. 

Dame Judi Dench penned a strongly-worded letter to The Times on Oct. 19, calling the series "crude sensationalism" and "an inaccurate and hurtful account of history."

The actress demanded Netflix add "a disclaimer at the start of each episode" in order to "preserve their own reputation in the eyes of their British subscribers."

The streamer has previously denied demands to add any such disclaimer. 

The Crown has always been clear that the series portrays a dramatized version of the monarchy. "Inspired by real events," the official logline reads, "this fictional dramatization tells the story of Queen Elizabeth II and the political and personal events that shaped her reign."

Antony Jones/UK Press via Getty Images, Keith Bernstein/Netflix

Season five of The Crown—which further depicts the dissolution of Diana's marriage to Prince Charles (Dominic West)premieres Nov. 9 on Netflix.

Get the drama behind the scenes. Sign up for TV Scoop!