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Tuesday November 21 2023

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How accurate is The Crown season 6? Sorting fact from fiction

The latest Netflix series is based on real events leading up to Princess Diana’s death and its aftermath. The royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith on what is true in the drama and what isn’t

Princess Diana and Elizabeth Debicki as Diana in The Crown — Princess Diana and Elizabeth Debicki as Diana in The Crown
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Sally Bedell Smith

Monday November 20 2023, 3.30pm, The Sunday Times

The latest, and final, season of The Crown focuses initially on what was one of the most dramatic and devastating periods in the royal family’s history — the events leading up to the Paris car crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, and Mohamed Al Fayed’s son, Dodi, and its aftermath. The widely watched, award-winning blockbuster Netflix series is a work of fiction based partly — but by no means entirely — on real events. With the final season moving fully into the late 20th and early 21st centuries, The Crown sticks more closely to the facts, but in the private moments between Diana and Charles, and between Charles and his parents, the series tends to veer off into fiction.

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