Long Live ‘The Crown’: Peter Morgan Confronts Final Season Rumors (Diana’s Ghost!), Prequel Buzz and Claims of Exploiting the Royal Family
variety.comPeter Morgan, the creator of Netflix’s sweeping Queen Elizabeth II series “The Crown,” is having a royal crisis. Only a tiny contingent of people sworn to secrecy have seen the show’s sixth and final season, set to premiere in November.
But somehow a tabloid — as is always the case with anything related to the royal family — has got hold of a scene in which Prince Charles talks to a vision of Diana after her death. “Diana’s GHOST to appear in The Crown’s final season,” screams a headline on the Daily Mail’s site.
The online article quotes from the episode, in which Charles (played by Dominic West) tenderly converses with an imaginary Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) in the cabin of the royal plane as he accompanies her body from Paris to London.
Later in the episode Diana also appears to Charles’ mother, Queen Elizabeth (Imelda Staunton). The next morning, the Mail’s print edition carries the story alongside an essay by a royal historian calling the series “cruel,” “farcical” and “a sick joke” and slamming Morgan for “straying from the truth.” For the record, the princess’s posthumous appearance is not meant to be supernatural. “I never imagined it as Diana’s ‘ghost’ in the traditional sense,” Morgan says. “It was her continuing to live vividly in the minds of those she has left behind.
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