Ahead of its return on November 16, The Crown creator Peter Morgan addressed how Queen Elizabeth II’s death last September 2022 affected the sixth and final season. Speaking with Variety, Morgan revealed that he decided to change the acclaimed drama’s ending because of the Queen’s death, which happened when he was almost finished writing the final season.
“We’d all been through the experience of the funeral,” Morgan said. “So because of how deeply everybody will have felt that, I had to try and find a way in which the final episode dealt with the character’s death, even though she hadn’t died yet.”
Morgan also discussed why 2005 was the best period to conclude The Crown. “It was the cutoff to keep it historical, not journalistic,” he continued. “I think by stopping almost 20 years before the present day, it’s dignified.”
What to expect in The Crown Season 6 Part 1?
“In their first Summer as a divorced couple, Prince Charles and Princess Diana share very different holidays with their sons,” reads the synopsis. “Diana is being courted by the Fayeds in the South of France, giving the young Princes a taste of luxury yachts, video games and movie nights. Charles is sticking to tradition in Balmoral. The comparisons play out in the press, fueled by a fervent paparazzi, and some of the Royal press team.”
“As yacht life and the constant media scrutiny lose their appeal, Diana longs to return to see her boys, who are back in Balmoral. A diversion to Paris sees matters come to a head – against the backdrop of an intensified and aggressive media pursuit.”
The Crown Season 6 stars Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II, Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret, Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip, Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana, Dominic West as Prince Charles, Olivia Williams as Camilla Parker Bowles, Khalid Abdalla as Dodi Fayed, Bertie Carvel as Tony Blair, Luther Ford as Prince Harry, and more. It hails from creator/writer Peter Morgan, director Stephen Daldry, and producer Andy Harries.
