Netflix Confirms 'The Crown' Season 6 Won't Show Princess Diana's Death

"The Crown" has officially chosen not to show Princess Diana's fatal car accident in Season 6.

While production on the final season is currently underway, Netflix has confirmed that "the exact timing of the crash impact will not be shown", featuring cast Elizabeth Debicki as the late Princess Diana and Khalid Abdalla as late partner Dodi Al-Fayed.

Princess Diana and Al-Fayed died in a car crash in Paris in 1997. The events and aftermath will be captured in Season 6 of the Emmy Award-winning Netflix series.

A production source told Deadline that the crew was "dreading" filming Diana's death and that there was "some anxiety, a palpable sense of being slightly nervous" within the crew of production. "There's an explosive sensibility around this one," the anonymous source added.

In the end, it was decided that "The Crown" would not recreate the collision itself. Instead, it will focus on the moments leading up to the accident and the aftermath of the tragedy.

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The insider continued, "It's a momentum. The car leaving the Ritz after midnight with paparazzi chasing it, then the aftermath with the British Ambassador to France coming into action with the Foreign Office, then the constitutional consequences that followed."

Deadline has reported that Prince Charles (Dominic West) will arrive in Paris to retrieve Diana's body while Mohamed Al-Fayed (Salim Daw) endures "casual racism" from French authorities when he takes possession of his son's coffin.

Meanwhile, Season 5 of 'The Crown' will premiere on November 9, marking Debicki's debut as Diana. The upcoming season centers on the wedding between Prince Charles and Princess Diana, under the watchful eye of Queen Elizabeth II, now played by Imelda Staunton.

After the death of Queen Elizabeth II, production of "The Crown" was halted. Yet an anonymous friend of King Charles and a royal insider called the upcoming fifth season "exploitative" and added that Netflix has "no qualms about damaging people's reputations".

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