The Crown depicts Princess Diana ‘marriage ceremony day slur’
Netflix drama The Crown might danger angering the Royal Family in an upcoming episode from the present’s remaining sequence.
In the controversial episode, Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) is seen chatting on a yacht together with her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed (Khalid Abdalla) when she likens her marriage ceremony day to Charles to stepping on a landmine.
Yet a royal biographer has insisted the late Princess would by no means have made such a comparability.
Discussing the harrowing tales of landmine victims after her go to to Bosnia and Herzegovina in August 1997, Diana tells Dodi concerning the Landmine Survivors Network.
She says: ‘A person referred to as Ken Rutherford drew my consideration to it. He began the Landmine Survivors Network. After his jeep hit a landmine in Somalia he misplaced each of his legs.
Drama: The Crown has risked angering the Royal Family because it depicts Princess Diana ‘marriage ceremony day slur’ in remaining sequence of the hit Netflix present
Controversial: Princess Diana is seen chatting on a yacht together with her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed within the episode when she likens her marriage ceremony day to Charles to stepping on a landmine (Charles and Diana pictured on the royal balcony in 1981)
‘He stated to me each survivor has a date of the day they stepped on the landmine. He stated, “Mine was December 16, 1963”. I stated, “Mine was 29 July, 1981 — my wedding day”.’
But royal biographer Ingrid Seward has contested the road within the drama.
Ingrid, who knew Diana, advised The Sun: ‘Diana would by no means have stated something like that. I believe it’s an unlucky comparability.
‘I believe the mere undeniable fact that The Crown is depicting Diana’s life and her demise is exploiting her reminiscence to allow them to put into her mouth something that they wish to — nonetheless distasteful individuals would possibly discover it.’
Referring to Diana’s work to boost consciousness of landmines, she stated: ‘It was essential – it was her massive factor and it was an incredible success too. It is one thing that she is going to at all times be remembered for.’
The Ottawa Treaty which banned landmines was signed in December 1997, simply three months after her demise.
MailOnline have contacted Netflix for remark.
The emotional first 4 episodes of the sixth and remaining sequence of The Crown cowl the tragic automotive crash in Paris that killed Princess Diana in August 1997 – alongside her lover Dodi Fayed and their chauffeur Henri Paul.
Viewers additionally see the Royal Family’s response to it, in addition to the summer season vacation Diana and Dodi loved in St Tropez previous to the tragedy.
Speaking out: But royal biographer Ingrid Seward has contested the road within the drama, ‘Diana would by no means have stated something like that. I believe it’s an unlucky comparability’
Final sequence: Elizabeth Debicki performs Princess Diana within the remaining sequence of The Crown. The first 4 episodes not solely cowl the deadly automotive crash in Paris but in addition Diana and Dodi’s summer season vacation in St Tropez, which got here earlier than the tragedy
The Paris scenes have been shot within the French capital, whereas a yacht was employed for the St Tropez scenes, though these have been truly filmed in Mallorca.
For sensitivity causes the precise second of Diana’s demise just isn’t re-created, however there are controversial scenes wherein Charles tenderly converses with an imaginary Diana within the cabin of the royal airplane as he accompanies her physique from Paris to London, and later when she additionally seems to the Queen.
Critics who’ve seen these scenes referred to as them ‘farcical’ for portraying Diana as a ghost, however sequence creator Peter Morgan has insisted that wasn’t the intention.
‘I never imagined it as Diana’s ghost within the conventional sense,’ he advised Variety journal. ‘It was her continuing to live vividly in the minds of those she has left behind.’
