“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 modern 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 new profile with Variety about if the late Princess of Wales’ ghost will actually appear to Charles, 74, in the finale.
The Daily Mail infamously claimed earlier this year that the scene in question would occur, and Morgan gave his take on the rumors.
The outlet alleged that a deceased Diana (played by Elizabeth Debicki) would appear to Charles (Dominic West) on a plane as well as pop up in her phantasmic glory to an aging Queen Elizabeth (Imelda Staunton).
“I never imagined it as Diana’s ‘ghost’ in the traditional 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 find a unique way of representing her. She deserved special treatment narratively.”
According to 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,” as well as criticizing the showrunner for “straying from the truth.”
The topic of whether or not Diana’s death in a car crash in Paris alongside love Dodi Fayed (Khalid Abdalla) would even be presented in the show has also been the subject of much debate.
Morgan shockingly noted: “Oh, God, we were never going to show 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 were very careful, long conversations about how we were going to do it,” Mackie explained at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
“The audience will judge it in the end, but I think 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 first half will span from 1997 to 2005 with Part 1 focusing on the “relationship blossoming between Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed before a fateful car journey has devastating consequences,” according to Netflix.
“Prince William tries to integrate back into life at Eton in the wake of his mother’s death as 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 future of the monarchy with the marriage of Charles and Camilla and the beginnings of a new royal fairytale in William and Kate.”
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