The Crown: Season 6 | Date Announcement | Netflix

The sixth and final season of The Crown is coming. Watch Part 1 from November 16th, Part 2 from December 14th.

 

The sixth and final season of The Crown, which follows the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, is in production and will be released by Netflix in two installments: the first four episodes being released on 16 November 2023, and the remaining six on 14 December 2023. It is the only season of the series to be produced following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022.

 

Premise

The Crown traces the reign of Queen Elizabeth II from her wedding in 1947 to the early 21st century.

 

The sixth season is expected to be set between 1997 and 2005 and will depict the premiership of Tony Blair, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the early relationship of Prince William and Kate Middleton, and the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.

 

Cast

Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II

Viola Prettejohn as young Princess Elizabeth

Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Elizabeth's husband

Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Elizabeth's younger sister

Beau Gadsdon as young Princess Margaret

Dominic West as Charles, Prince of Wales, Elizabeth and Philip's eldest child and the heir apparent

Elizabeth Debicki as Diana, Princess of Wales, Charles' ex-wife

Olivia Williams as Camilla Parker Bowles, Charles' long-time lover

Khalid Abdalla as Dodi Fayed, Diana's lover who died alongside her in the 1997 car crash

Salim Daw as Mohamed Al-Fayed, Dodi Fayed's father

Bertie Carvel as Tony Blair, Prime Minister 1997–2007

Lydia Leonard as Cherie Blair, Tony Blair's wife

Andrew Havill as Robert Fellowes, the Queen's private secretary and brother-in-law of Princess Diana

Marcia Warren as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, widow of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret

Claudia Harrison as Anne, Princess Royal, Elizabeth and Philip's second child and only daughter

Theo Fraser Steele as Timothy Laurence, Princess Anne's husband

James Murray as Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Elizabeth and Philip's third child

Sam Woolf as Prince Edward, Elizabeth and Philip's youngest child

Ed McVey as Prince William of Wales, Charles and Diana's elder son and the second-in-line for the British throne

Rufus Kampa as young Prince William of Wales

Meg Bellamy as Catherine Middleton, a classmate of Prince William

Luther Ford as Prince Harry of Wales, Charles and Diana's younger son and the third-in-line to the British throne

Will Powell as young Prince Harry of Wales

Richard Rycroft as George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury

Production

 

Development

Though the series was initially planned to run for six seasons, in January 2020 creator Peter Morgan announced that the series would instead conclude with the fifth season.[19] In July 2020, Morgan reversed his decision and announced that the series would end with a sixth season as originally planned, saying, "As we started to discuss the storylines for Season 5, it soon became clear that in order to do justice to the richness and complexity of the story we should go back to the original plan and do six seasons. To be clear, Season 6 will not bring us any closer to present-day — it will simply enable us to cover the same period in greater detail."

 

Casting

In January 2020, Imelda Staunton was announced as succeeding Colman as the Queen in the fifth season, and her role in the final sixth season was reported in July. Also in July 2020, Lesley Manville was announced as portraying Princess Margaret, and the following month, Jonathan Pryce and Elizabeth Debicki had been cast as Prince Philip and Diana, Princess of Wales, respectively. In October 2020, Dominic West was in talks to play Prince Charles and was officially confirmed as part of the cast in April 2021.In June 2021, Olivia Williams announced that she would portray Camilla Parker Bowles.In September 2022, Rufus Kampa and Ed McVey were cast as Prince William, while Meg Bellamy was cast as Kate Middleton.Viola Prettejohn was cast as young Elizabeth, while Beau Gadsdon reprised her role as young Margaret, for flashback scenes set on Victory in Europe Day.

 

Filming

Filming for the season began in early September 2022, but was paused following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022.Filming resumed the following week, but paused again on the day of the Queen's funeral on 19 September 2022.Filming wrapped on 21 April 2023.

 

"Ghost of Diana" controversy

Shortly after releasing the teaser for season 6 on 9 October 2023, Netflix came under controversy after an insider from the show described a scene from the new season, detailing how Princess Diana would be coming back as a ghost to appear in front of her ex-husband, Charles, and Queen Elizabeth II following her death in a 1997 car crash in Paris. After backlash, a Netflix spokesperson spoke to media, claiming "These sensitive and thoughtful imagined conversations seek to bring to life the depth of emotion that was felt after such a seismic tragedy struck at the heart of the family."

 

Release

The season is scheduled to premiere in two installments: the first four episodes will be released on 16 November 2023, and the remaining six on 14 December 2023.