The new series of The Crown "is emotional and intense" as it focuses on Princess Diana's final days before her tragic death, a royal expert shared.
Part one of season six of Netflix's The Crown will launch on the streaming platform in the UK on Thursday, 16 November with four episodes available to watch. This will show the relationship between Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed before "a fateful car journey has devastating consequences" Netflix reveals.
Viewers will then have to wait a little longer as the second part of the final ever series will be released on 14 December with five episodes. As we eagerly wait for next week to binge-watch our favourite series, royal expert Tessa Dunlop spoke exclusively to OK! about what viewers can expect, including the heartwrenching emotions it brings.
The historian, writer and broadcaster, who has watched the new series ahead of its release date, told us: "The opener starts on the screeching in the tunnel in Paris and the crash, you then flashback and the first four episodes build up to that crash."
She went on to say that you're then "cut to Diana going on holiday in Saint-Tropez with a reluctant Prince William." The first four episodes then end with "the queen's speech and the funeral, so it's building up to that."
Describing Diana's storyline in the series, Tess shared: "It was just intense, reliving it felt intense.
"Also this is a fiction but it's set in a period and being reminded of that period, it was emotional. I felt that aspect of comparability because I too consumed that icon as she was sold to me in the papers. And I too owned the grief in a way that I could and Harry couldn't at the time."
"I've relived what I lived during this series." Tess added that the first few series were like a "period drama" – "but for my generation, Diana's daughter, this is a reminder of a very, very crazy period."
The royal expert continued: "It was a reminder that Diana, the summer she died was everywhere. She was in every paper you picked up, in every magazine you touched, she was front and centre of every newsstand.
"She was everywhere and suddenly she was nowhere.
"This series quite brilliantly, colourfully, morally and fashionably shows this but also in quite a haunting way.
"The press are the primary baddies but we, the public were also culpable in the creation of this out-of-control juggernaut, we were all consumers. I found myself crying during it, it reminded me that I felt complicit somehow in 'Diana the Hunted' and how we were all a bit part players."
"It’s a powerful reminder of that time and the series is thought-provoking. We were kind of sideline players to the Diana narrative, whether we like it or not," she added.
Talking further about her thoughts on the first half of the new series, including Diana and Dodi's relationship, the royal expert said: "This series I thought was incredibly clever, I really enjoyed these first four episodes, I thought they were a wonderful combination, a fantasy. Because the truth is, we don't know what happened between Diana and Dodi because the two main protagonists died, so we have no idea."
Tess continued: "Netflix has really played on the fact we don't know and it's a traumatic deconstruction of what might have happened between Diana and Dodi.
"We know that The Crown is heavily fictionalised, but there is no question – this is definitely fiction because we simply don't know what happened and I feel that kind of frees it from some of the accusations that it's had in the past. Therefore you can kind of enjoy the what if".
"This one, even though it focuses on Diana's death, feels less complicated.
"That's partly because we've had this huge kind of unbuttoning from Harry, but also because it's cleverly done and it's quite sympathetic towards most of the players in the Royal Family, including both Diana and Charles."
Source: Read Full Article