This evening of August 31, 1997, in Paris, the life of Lady Diana and her lover Dodi Al Fayed changes.
As the couple fled by car from a pack of paparazzi, their vehicle hit one of the pillars of the tunnel located under the Alma bridge, in the 16th arrondissement of the capital.
The tragic and well-known sequel will forever leave a scar in the hearts of the British.
And the sixth season of
The Crown
, which is scheduled for release next fall, has every intention of covering this dark episode.
Much to the chagrin of the film crew.
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“Play dead like Diana”
A scene is particularly likely to shock viewers: Lady Diana (played by Elizabeth Debicki), dead and resting in her coffin.
“In fact, they made Elizabeth go up in a coffin and play dead, like Diana”, confirms a member of the team of
The Crown
in the pages of The
Sun
, Tuesday December 20.
"Viewers will see a French priest administering the last rites to Diana as she has just been pronounced dead."
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The sequence of events that we will see on the screen is then detailed.
“Prince Charles - played by Dominic West - walks into the room and breaks down in tears.
In his hysteria, he notices that Diana is missing an earring.
That's all he can focus on while the grief washes over him."
Following which, we will see the one who was still Prince of Wales order the French authorities: “You must find this earring.
Diana loved him."
Before Diana's sisters join him, too, to meditate with the princess of hearts, lying in an open coffin.
Princes William and Harry never saw their mother dead in a coffin, they shouldn't have to watch this
Source at “Sun”
“Princes William and Harry never saw their mother dead in a coffin and they shouldn't have to watch this.
The British public either”, deplores the same person, for whom another scene is problematic.
In this case, the one that reconstructs the arrival of Diana, between life and death, at the hospital.
“Viewers see her lying on a table with doctors frantically surrounding her,” the source describes to
The
Sun.
“They hired real surgeons for these scenes.
Nurses are also seen around the lifeless body.
There's blood everywhere, on the surgeons' gowns and gloves, and on the door."
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"The bosses have gone to great lengths to increase ratings"
For the people present during the filming, this goes too far.
Already anticipating public anger at these “shattering” scenes, they believe that Netflix should simply remove them.
“The bosses went to great lengths to increase ratings.
Everyone was very uncomfortable during the filming.
It's obscene and it should be banned,” one of them told the British tabloid.
"Many feel that noise needs to be made to protect William and Harry in particular, so they don't get more upset."
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The sixth season of
The Crown
will also feature the funeral march of princes William and Harry, accompanied by their father Charles, their grandfather Philip and their uncle Charles Spencer, behind the coffin of their mother Lady Diana.
At this rate, why don't they dig his grave?
Simone Simmonds, Princess Diana's friend
Netflix, for its part, assures it: the scenes surrounding the death of Diana were shot with “the greatest respect and the greatest care”.
Which was not enough to calm the anger of Simone Simmonds, a friend of Diana.
"It's unhealthy, unhealthy, unhealthy," she berates.
This same relative wonders, still in the columns of the
Sun
: “Can they go lower?
At this rate, why don't they dig his grave?
These scenes are not entertainment, it's just macabre."
Ken Wharfe, Diana's former bodyguard, believes he knows William will find the scenes "repulsive" and Charles will be "appalled".
For now, the royal family has declined to comment.
As usual, a credo remains:
never explain, never complain
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