On August 31, 1997, Diana Spencer died in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris. The driver of the vehicle, Henri Paul, was trying to escape from the paparazzi, desperate to have photographs of the princess with Dodi Al-Fayed, her partner. Only Trevor Rees-Jones, the bodyguard, survived the accident. And, while none of this appears in the trailer for the final season of The Crown, it is hinted at. “We always have the press on us,” Diana complains during a telephone conversation that will be prescient.
The creator Peter Morgan seems to have been unable to avoid the impulses caused by the magnetism of the ex-wife of the current King Charles of the United Kingdom. After showing a view as critical as it is reverential of Queen Elizabeth II, highlighting her ability to represent a kingdom and also the solemnity of an empire in decline, in the last episodes it allows Diana, as the woman in question did when she was alive , stole the spotlight, at least in the first half of the sixth season.
“I don't know how I ended up like this. Always busy. So much so that I have been neglecting myself. I've spent my whole life like this,” says the character played by Elizabeth Debicki, who was nominated for an Emmy for her work in the previous season. It is the creation of a tragic myth that, after her death, placed the queen in a situation she would never have wanted: having to console the British people for the loss of those she had unofficially established as her representative.
“They want you to be the mother of the nation,” Carlos reproaches her in the fiction, after a reaction that the population interprets as cold and that Morgan as a screenwriter had already explored in depth. Let us remember that he was nominated for an Oscar for his work in The Queen, a film for which Helen Mirren won the Oscar for best actress, although this recognition led her to reject the role of Elizabeth in the last two seasons of The Crown, as has been reported. know, so as not to be always remembered more as the queen.
On the other hand, Netflix has Imelda Staunton who, after playing the monarch for the first time in the fifth season, has the dubious honor of being the first actress from The Crown to play the queen and not win the Emmy: Claire Foy was nominated for the first season and won the award for the second while Olivia Colman, who took over, was nominated for the fourth and won the statuette for the fifth.
With this dramatic trailer that uses Lady Di's death as a teaser, The Crown also leaves us with a question: what will become of the series in the second half of the sixth season after putting all its eggs in the basket of Diana's popularity?
Let us remember that the first four episodes of the final season premiere on November 16 on the platform while the remaining six will arrive on December 14.
