“The Crown” will take its final curtsy this December when it wraps up its sixth and final season.
The last episodes of the hit Netflix drama will take viewers into the trendy era of the royal family, including Princess Diana’s 1997 death and King (then Prince) Charles’ 2005 wedding to wife Queen Camilla.
Creator Peter Morgan got candid in a latest profile with Variety about if the late Princess of Wales’ ghost will actually appear to Charles, 74, in the finale.
The Each day Mail infamously claimed earlier this yr that the scene in query would occur, and Morgan gave his tackle the rumors.
The outlet alleged that a deceased Diana (played by Elizabeth Debicki) would seem to Charles (Dominic West) on a plane in addition to pop up in her phantasmic glory to an aging Queen Elizabeth (Imelda Staunton).
“I never imagined it as Diana’s ‘ghost’ in the normal sense,” Morgan said. “It was her continuing to live vividly in the minds of those she has left behind.”
“The Queen” director added: “Diana was unique, and I suppose that’s what inspired me to search out a novel way of representing her. She deserved special treatment narratively.”
Based on Variety, a royal expert wrote for the Mail’s print edition and blasted Morgan for the series.
The historian penned that the show was “cruel,” “farcical” and “a sick joke,” in addition to criticizing the showrunner for “straying from the reality.”
The subject of whether or not Diana’s death in a automobile crash in Paris alongside love Dodi Fayed (Khalid Abdalla) would even be presented in the show has also been the topic of much debate.
Morgan shockingly noted: “Oh, God, we were never going to point out the crash. Never.”
Executive producers Andy Harries and Suzanne Mackie claimed in August that they filmed the passing of Diana with “enormous sensitivity.”
“The show might be big and noisy, but we’re not. We’re thoughtful people and we’re sensitive people. There have been very careful, long conversations about how we were going to do it,” Mackie explained on the Edinburgh TV Festival.
“The audience will judge it in the tip, but I believe it’s been delicately, thoughtfully recreated,” she said.
Part 1 of “The Crown” will premiere on Nov. 16, and Part 2 will debut on Dec. 14.
The primary half will span from 1997 to 2005 with Part 1 specializing in the “relationship blossoming between Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed before a fateful automobile journey has devastating consequences,” in accordance with Netflix.
“Prince William tries to integrate back into life at Eton in the wake of his mother’s death because the monarchy has to ride the wave of public opinion,” the official description continued.
The plot went on: “As she reaches her Golden Jubilee, the Queen reflects on the longer term of the monarchy with the wedding of Charles and Camilla and the beginnings of a latest royal fairytale in William and Kate.”