The final season of Netflix’s hit drama ‘The Crown’ will see the royal family into the 2000s. Here’s everything to know.
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The final series will see the royal family into the 2000s.
For five seasons, Netflix’s The Crown has dramatized the reign of Queen Elizabeth II and major royal family events from throughout history. The hit drama has won over viewers and the industry, having won multiple Emmy awards throughout its run so far. However, fans were worried in early 2020 when Netflix announced that Season 5 would be the show’s last. Luckily, series creator Peter Morgan had a change of heart six months later and told Deadline that the show would receive a Season 6 after all, holding to his original plan to spend two seasons focusing on three pivotal periods in Queen Elizabeth’s long reign.
“As we started to discuss the storylines for Series 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,” Morgan told the publication. “To be clear, Series 6 will not bring us any closer to present-day — it will simply enable us to cover the same period in greater detail.”
In July 2020, Cindy Holland, then the vice president of original content at Netflix, also spoke to Deadline about extending the series. “The Crown keeps raising the bar with each new season,” Holland said. “We’re proud to support Peter’s vision and the phenomenal cast and crew for a sixth and final season.” Here’s everything we know about The Crown Season 6.
Deadline previously reported that Season 6 of The Crown would explore the royal family’s lives into the 2000s, which makes sense considering Season 5 depicted much of the 1990s. The final season will have a lot to cover, as the ’90s saw Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s divorce, Princess Anne’s split from Mark Phillips, and Princess Diana’s 1996 separation from Prince Charles — in addition to her tragic death in 1997. Speaking in August 2023, The Crown’s executive producers, Andy Harries and Suzanne Mackie, explained how the show will cover the death of Princess Diana, revealing that it will occur early on in the season and has been approached with “enormous sensitivity.”
“The show might be big and noisy, but we’re not. We’re thoughtful people and we’re sensitive people. There were very careful, long conversations about how we were going to do it,” Mackie said. “I think it’s been delicately, thoughtfully recreated. Elizabeth Debicki is an extraordinary actress and she was so thoughtful and considerate. She loved Diana. There’s a huge amount of respect from us all, I hope that’s evident.”
Another major royal event set to be covered in Season 6 is the 2005 wedding of King Charles III and Camilla Parker Bowles. On Sept. 4, Netflix unveiled a first look at how the couple’s royal nuptials will be depicted in The Crown, with a still from the final season showing a wedding pamphlet that reads: “Service of prayer and dedication following the marriage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall.
