The fifth season of ‘The Crown’ will come to Netflix on November 9, while the shooting of the sixth continues its course after a brief hiatus due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II. In fact, at the beginning of September, Barcelona’s Paseo de Gracia had been transformed into a street in Paris for the filming of the moments before and after the fatal accident of Lady Di and Dodi Al-Fayed. The scene will finally be shot in two weeks, as published dead linewith Elizabeth Debicki in the role of Diana of Wales, Dominic West as Charles of England and Khalid Andadla playing Dodi Al-Fayed, Lady Di’s last partner.
As sources from the ‘The Crown’ team have acknowledged, there is a feeling of “certain anxiety” among them as the time to shoot the tragic scene approaches. And that despite the fact that, as creator Peter Morgan has said on several occasions, The moment of the accident itself will not be recorded, but only the moment before and after. That is, since Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed leave the Ritz Hotel in Paris and get into the car followed by a cloud of paparazzi and then the scene of the British ambassador to France starting all the paperwork at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and dealing with all the institutional consequences of the tragedy.
As a reminder, the accident occurred on August 31, 1997 when Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed were traveling in the back seats of a Mercedes Driven by Ritz security agent Henri Paul. In the passenger seat was Trevor Rees-Jones, security adviser to Mohamed Al-Fayed, the father of Diana’s partner. The vehicle collided with another vehicle in the Puente del Alma tunnel in Paris. Rees-Jones was the sole survivor. Dodi Al-Fayed and the driver were killed instantly, while Princess Diana of Wales was alive when she was rescued, but she died four hours later..
The fifth and sixth, the most tumultuous seasons
With the fifth season, the most complicated time will begin for Queen Elizabeth II (who will be played by Imelda Staunton) and, in general, for the British monarchy.. The new episodes enter the decade in which the three children of the monarch were divorced. The most notorious being those of Prince Charles and Princess Diana and Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. At that time, the famous interview of the journalist Martin Bashir with Diana of Wales took place in which she confessed that “in her marriage there were always three”, confirming Charles’s relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, now queen consort. Prince William and also his brother Harry have expressed their discomfort on more than one occasion over the interview, which was investigated for malpractice and for which even the BBC apologized. From what has transpired, Guillermo has expressed his consternation for the fact that the series is going to dedicate a chapter of the fifth season to recreate the interview.
Most likely, the discomfort with some of the episodes of the fifth season of ‘The Crown’ extends to Carlos III, who in his short time in office he has already shown his character on different occasions. It would not be the first time that the discomfort of the British monarchy has been made known with the series that, despite being a fiction, accurately reflects the history of the reign of Elizabeth II. In fact, As we already told here, it was recently learned that the monarch was watching ‘The Crown’ on Sundays in a projector and that Prince Harry even joked with actor Matt Smith calling him grandfather, because the actor was effectively playing his grandfather, the late Duke of Edinburgh.
