‘The Crown’ filmed Princess Diana’s death with extreme sensitivity: No ‘dead body’ shown
nypost.comtold Deadline that he handled it with extreme sensitivity.“We did film Diana, but very respectfully — not in a big close-up,” he said. “This enabled Dominic West to perform his scenes as her former husband Prince Charles at the hospital…It was very, very clear to us that we don’t want to see her dead body.
I actually think that it was not a discussion. Not even in the first version of the cut we would ever see her body.” Season 6 will cover events from 1997 through 2005, including Princess Diana’s death in a 1997 car crash in Paris at age 36.
As creator Peter Morgan has previously stated, “The Crown” will not cover the era of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Netflix’s synopsis of the final season reads: “A relationship blossoms between Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed before a fateful car journey has devastating consequences.
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.
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