'The Crown' Films One of Princess Diana's Final Days, Though Fatal Car Accident Won't Be Shown

Mar. 15, 2025

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Cameras are rolling forThe Crown’s final chapter.

On Saturday,Elizabeth Debickiwas seen filming in an outfit reminiscent of whatPrincess Dianawas wearing the day before she died in 1997. Debicki, 32, was photographed on the Barcelona set in a grey suit and black top with sunglasses and gold earrings, strolling the streets and riding in a car withKhalid Abdalla. The 40-year-old actor joins the cast asDodi Al Fayed, the Egyptian billionaire romantically involved with Diana in her final months.

“The exact moment of the crash impact will not be shown,” Netflix said in a statement toThe Sun.

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Al Fayed and the driver died instantly. Diana died later in the hospital. She was 36 years old.

“It’s my absolute total belief it was a terrible, tragic accident in which three people lost their lives and one other person had their life turned upside down,” Douglas said.

Host Ranvir Singh asked if it was the combination of no seatbelts, paparazzi chasing the car and the driver having some drinks.

“When you look at most incidents, accidents, you find there’s a chain of events, and if any one of those chain of events had been different, it might not have led to that happening,” Douglas said. “For example, if they’d been wearing seatbelts, our experts tell us it was probably an 80% chance that they would have survived the accident.”

Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed.Getty(2)

The Crown’s reign on Netflixwas extendedin July 2020, when creator Peter Morgan announced that the show would conclude with a sixth — not fifth — season, as previously planned.

“As we started to discuss the storylines for Series 5, it soon became clear that in order to do justice to the richness and complexity of the story we should go back to the original plan and do six seasons,” the Emmy-winning writer said in astatement.

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“To be clear, Series 6 will not bring us any closer to present-day — it will simply enable us to cover the same period in greater detail,” he added.

Season 5 ofThe Crownwill hit Netflix queues on Nov. 9, starring Debicki as Princess Diana andDominic WestasPrince Charles. The latest installment will cover the 1990s, a turbulent era that began with the dramatic dissolution of the marriage of the former Prince and Princess of Wales.

source: people.com