The Crown Season 6
Overview
It was always going to come down to this: Diana's last summer. The final season of Peter Morgan's royal saga opens in 1997, with Elizabeth Debicki's Diana — a performance so compassionate it hurts — holidaying with Dodi Fayed while the paparazzi close in, heading towards that tunnel in Paris. The episodes dealing with the crash, and with the monarchy's stiff, controversial silence afterwards, are the most delicate the show has ever attempted. Then time moves on. Imelda Staunton's Queen Elizabeth II settles into old age in the role, quietly measuring her reign against a Britain that's changing around her, while a young Prince William meets Kate Middleton at university and the story gently hands itself to the next generation. Split across two parts in late 2023, the season restarted the old argument about dramatising real tragedy — fair enough — but nobody disputed the craft. Six seasons, three casts, one reign. It ends quietly, the way its subject probably would have wanted: solemn, immaculate, and more than a little bit sad.
