"The Crown" season 6: filming begins in Paris with Lady Di's accident.

"The Crown" season 6: filming begins in Paris with Lady Di's accident
Elizabeth Debicki as Diana in The Crown season 6 - © Keith Bernstein / Netflix
The filming of season 6 of “The Crown” continues in the City of Light.In a few days, season 5 of “The Crown” will finally be available on Netflix. But as fans eagerly await this new round of episodes, filming for season 6 continues. After setting up its cameras in Barcelona and then Mallorca, the multi-award winning series has arrived in Paris. Indeed, pictures taken on the night of Wednesday October 26 to Thursday October 27 were posted on social networks. The latter, captured near the Pont de l'Alma, show the reconstruction of a crucial scene: the tragic accident which cost the lives of Diana Spencer and Dodi Al-Fayed on August 31, 1997.

 The Crown team was in Paris this morning for the filming of the scene of Lady Diana's tragic accident under the Alma bridge in Paris. pic.twitter.com/Rpy8VUc4OB — ti chabin 972 rpzt (@thewoorstt) October 27, 2022 The photos show a black Mercedes – identical to the one that drove Lady Di and the Egyptian businessman twenty-five years ago – rushing under the bridge, chased by a horde of motorized photographers. On the other hand, we do not know if Elizabeth Debicki and Khalid Abdalla, the interpreters of two lovers, were inside the vehicle during the filming of this scene.Other sequences of the Parisian stay of the late princess were shot in Barcelona. When the death of Queen Elisabeth II was announced on September 8, the team was preparing to shoot this important scene in a fully reconstructed Paris.

While the sudden disappearance of Lady Di is inevitably at the heart of the plot of the sixth season of "The Crown", the fatal collision should not be brought to the screen. A few days ago, "Deadline" reported the words of a source close to the production. She claimed viewers would see "the car leaving the Ritz after midnight with paparazzi chasing it, then the aftermath with the British Ambassador to France coming into action with the Foreign Office, and the constitutional consequences of the accident.
 Before arriving in the capital, the team of "The Crown" was in Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands. There, a series of photos showing the actors chosen to play Diana and princes William and Harry had been unveiled. The opportunity to see their striking similarities with members of the royal family.