2023-11-16 13:49:12
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“The Crown” has a theory about Diana’s death
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The Last Summer: Elizabeth Debicki as Diana
Quelle: Daniel Escale/© 2022 Netflix
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The first episodes of the new season “The Crown” are here. With Princess Diana’s death, the family Time.news has reached a turning point in its history. A disclaimer from Netflix itself shows how sensitive this is.
Marie-Antoinette’s most famous sentence is: “Then let them eat cake.” She probably never said it. Nevertheless, it became a symbol of monarchical decadence and a part of French history.
This interweaving of actual and told history also accompanies the series “The Crown” about the British royal family, new episodes of which can now be seen. Because many viewers also see the Netflix production as a more entertaining history lesson. The streaming service ignored criticism of this for a long time until it added a disclaimer to the trailer for the fifth season, following public demands from actress Judi Dench, among others. It was reported for the first time that the series was a “fictional dramatization” that was “inspired by real events.”
Scandal in St. Tropez: Dodi (Khalid Abdalla) and Diana (Elizabeth Debicki)
Quelle: Daniel Escale/© 2022 Netflix
Why the creators decided to take this step in season five may also have to do with the event that the series was heading towards: The sixth season begins with the most sensitive point in the British monarchy of the past hundred years, August 31, 1997 , the anniversary of Princess Diana’s death. People around the world were shocked at the time and can still remember where they were when they heard the news. It is no coincidence that the perspective from which the fatal journey of Diana and her lover Dodi Al-Fayed is shown is that of a passerby.
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How we tell history shapes how we remember history. But in contrast to Shakespeare’s royal dramas and Schiller’s Mary Stuart, many characters in Peter Morgan’s “The Crown” are still alive – and could potentially sue. Prince Philip probably already considered this after the second season. The episode “Paterfamilias” (2017) tells of his sister’s fatal plane crash and connects it with Philip’s behavior at boarding school. A misrepresentation depicting the husband of the late queen very annoyed should have. Telling the story of Diana’s death, around which there are many myths, is likely to be even more delicate. Dodi’s father, Mohamed Al-Fayed, suspected an intrigue by the royal family behind his son’s death. In the series, however, the Egyptian billionaire, who died this year, is portrayed as the mastermind not only of the relationship between Diana and Dodi, but also of their media persecution. Here he is the one who puts the paparazzi on their trail.
Everyone wants to be happy
In the first episode, “Persona non grata,” Mohamed Al-Fayed (Salim Daw) invites Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) and her sons to vacation in the south of France, only to leave her alone with Dodi (Khalid Abdalla). What happens from here, the last days before the scandal breaks out around them, is told softly and lovingly. On a yacht in the warm Mediterranean, a tenderness develops between Diana and Dodi that counteracts the coldness between her and Charles. At the same time, Charles (Dominic West) in rainy England is no less happy to finally be able to show and live his long-tested love for Camilla (Olivia Williams). The desire for friendship is even hinted at between Charles and Diana. Everyone wants to be happy.
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If it weren’t for the press. The infamy of the British media in the 1990s is currently being explored in numerous documentaries. Stars like David Beckham and Robbie Williams tell via Netflix how they also fell into depression because of the reporting and ultimately fled their homeland. An Arte documentary about the Spice Girls shows something similar.
“The Crown” begins the second episode almost like a Netflix documentary. From the photographer’s perspective. Mario Brenna, the paparazzo who photographed Diana and Dodi on the yacht and became rich with it, compares his job to hunting: “We have to be killers.” The court photographer Duncan Muir is presented as a counter-model and presents himself as a “proud Elizabethan.” before. He adores the queen: “I think we’ll miss her terribly when she’s gone.”
Order in Scotland: William (Rufus Kampa), Charles (Dominic West) and Harry (Fflyn Edwards) from left
Source: Keith Bernstein/© 2022 Netflix
Now she is dead and the viewer can’t help but relate quotes like this to the present. Even in innocent scenes, such as when Harry and William are playing cards and the older one admonishes the younger one for not knowing the rules. The series and its real protagonists have long been intertwined. Because art has poetry ahead of reality, and that is easier to accept.
This is what Queen Elizabeth says in the series when the relationship between Diana and Dodi becomes known: “One would almost feel sorry for her, if one wasn’t so cross with her.” on them). The public perception of Diana and the Queen culminates in this sentence. The sensitive sacrifice and the cold duty. The Queen probably never said it. And it probably doesn’t matter.
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