Netflix’s “The Crown” series will soon be coming to an end with its sixth and final season. Though the first season of the series premiered back in 2016, the project has been in development and/or production for around a decade now.
During that whole time, Suzanne Mackie has worked as an executive producer on the series and one of writer/creator Peter Morgan’s closest producing partners.
Recently she sat down with THR to talk about the show’s approaching sixth and final season which will deal with several storylines including Princess Diana’s death and the British royal family’s place in the early 21st century.
She confirms they’ve been editing for months now, with filming having finished months ago. They’re currently doing the final sound mixing and the very last stages of post-production.
How the sensitive subject of Diana’s passing will be handled and how the show will actually end are among the biggest questions hovering over the series. Mackie says the team are confident they’ve approached it all with the right amount of respect, sensitivity and consideration:
I don’t want to spoil the very end, but it’s really beautiful and, I think, quite profound, and it feels like a culmination of a very long journey. Talking about our other queens, it feels like it honors that, and you’ll understand that when you see it.
Some of it is very painfully sad, because it deals with the death of Diana – over three episodes we follow what happens to Diana and the build-up to her death, the final days in Paris. It’s very sad, and it feels very real and vivid [and] I hope very respectful and beautiful.
I think it will be a surprise for an audience, because in many ways, where we go after Diana, it’s very hard. We have found a really beautiful new chapter, which is via Prince William and Kate Middleton, and it feels like little flowers coming up out of the earth after Diana’s death.
Emma Corrin first played Diana in the fourth season of “The Crown,” whilst “Elizabeth Debicki” took over in the fifth season and returns to the part for the sixth season. It has previously been stated that Diana’s car crash in Paris will not be depicted onscreen.
The new season is also expected to deal with Princess Margaret’s passing five years later, Margaret has been an essential character in “The Crown” since it began.
Netflix has not yet set a date for when the sixth and final season of “The Crown” will be released.
