The Crown ‘risks angering the royal family as it depicts Princess Diana’s ‘controversial wedding day blemish’ in upcoming final series

Netflix drama The Crown threatens to anger the royal family in an upcoming episode of the show’s final series.

In the controversial episode, Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) is seen on a yacht talking to her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed (Khalid Abdalla) when she compares her wedding day to Charles to stepping on a landmine.

Yet a royal biographer has insisted the late princess would never have made such a comparison.

Diana discusses the harrowing stories of landmine victims after her visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina in August 1997 and tells Dodi about the Landmine Survivors Network.

She says, “A man named Ken Rutherford drew my attention to it. He founded the Landmine Survivors Network. After his jeep hit a landmine in Somalia, he lost both his legs.

Controversial: Princess Diana is seen talking to her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed on a yacht in the episode where she compares her wedding day to Charles to stepping on a landmine (Charles and Diana pictured on the royal balcony in 1981)

‘He told me that every survivor has a date of the day he stepped on the landmine. He said, “Mine was December 16, 1963.” I said, ‘Mine was July 29, 1981 – my wedding day.’

But royal biographer Ingrid Seward has disputed the line in the drama.

Ingrid, who knew Diana, told her The sun: ‘Diana would never have said something like that. I think it’s an unfortunate comparison.

“I think the very fact that The Crown is portraying Diana’s life and her death is exploiting her memory so they can put whatever they want in her mouth – no matter how distasteful people find it.”

Referring to Diana’s work to raise awareness about landmines, she said: ‘It was really important – it was her big thing and it was a big success too. It’s something she will always be remembered for.’

The Ottawa Treaty, which banned landmines, was signed in December 1997, just three months after her death.

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The emotional first four episodes of the sixth and final series of The Crown cover the tragic Paris car crash that killed Princess Diana – along with her lover Dodi Fayed and their driver Henri Paul – in August 1997.

Viewers will also see the royal family’s reaction to it, as well as the summer holiday Diana and Dodi enjoyed in St. Tropez prior to the tragedy.

Speaking out: But royal biographer Ingrid Seward has disputed the line in the drama: ‘Diana would never have said something like that. I think it’s an unfortunate comparison’

Final series: Elizabeth Debicki plays Princess Diana in the final series of The Crown. The first four episodes cover not only the fatal car crash in Paris, but also Diana and Dodi’s summer vacation in St. Tropez, which took place before the tragedy.

The Paris scenes were shot in the French capital, while a yacht was rented for the St. Tropez scenes, although they were actually shot in Mallorca.

For sensitivity reasons, the exact moment of Diana’s death is not recreated, but there are controversial scenes in which Charles tenderly talks to an imaginary Diana in the cabin of the royal plane as he accompanies her body from Paris to London, and later when she also appears to the Queen.

Critics who have seen these scenes have called them “farcical” for depicting Diana as a ghost, but series creator Peter Morgan has insisted this was not the intention.

“I never imagined it would be the ghost of Diana in the traditional sense of the word,” he told Variety magazine. “It was her life that lived on vividly in the minds of those she left behind.”