The Crown season 6

Historical accuracy[edit]

Episode 1 shows Princess Margaret attending Camilla's 50th birthday party in 1997, though she was not present at the event.^[70] The Queen is also keen for Camilla to not be viewed as "wicked", but there were reports that she once referred to her as "that wicked woman" in front of Charles.^[71] In episode 2, Mohamed Al-Fayed hires Italian paparazzo Mario Brenna to take photos of his son Dodi and Diana during their trip in the south of France; however, there is no evidence that Al-Fayed was behind this and Diana's biographer Tina Brown suggests that it was Diana herself who notified Brenna.^[70][71] The episode also suggests that news of Diana's relationship with Dodi broke during her trip to Bosnia and she was disturbed by the media enquiring about them, but in reality, the photos of them did not appear in the papers until a few days after the trip was over.^[70]


Episode 3 features a scene during which Diana and Dodi are forced into the Repossi jewellery store in Monte Carlo while trying to escape a group of fans.^[70] In reality, Dodi visited the Paris branch of Repossi quietly and purchased a ring which he kept at his apartment, rather than at the Ritz hotel where he and Diana were staying, making the scene showing his proposal fictitious.^[70][71] Episode four focuses on the row within the royal family about whether or not Diana should have a public funeral, which Buckingham Palace denied ever happened.^[70] Another fictional plot involves Prince William going missing in Scotland for fourteen hours shortly after his mother's death.^[70][71]


Episode 7 depicts Kate Middleton and her mother Carole buying a copy of The Big Issue from Prince William and his mother Diana on the street in December 1996; however, Diana and William never sold any copies of the magazine together, making the whole scene fictional.^[72] Another plotline involves William dating a fictional character named Lola Airdale-Cavendish-Kincaid.^[72] The episode also relates William's initial dissatisfaction with St Andrews to his supposed sense of loneliness whereas according to his biographers he was mainly unimpressed with how small and provincial the school was.^[72] Episode 8 shows Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret taking part in VE Day celebrations at The Ritz, though there is no record of the sisters visiting the hotel's basement bar the Pink Sink and dancing jitterbug.^[72] The episode also falsely shows the Queen attending Margaret's 70th birthday party without Philip.^[72]


Episode 9 shows Prince William and Kate Middleton starting to date after she walks on the stage at a charity fashion show on the day the Queen Mother died. However, the show took place four days before her demise.^[72] Both are also shown to spend time together as a couple during the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002, but they reportedly did not start dating until 2003.^[72] The episode shows Sir John Stevens, who led Operation Paget, publicly refuting Mohamed Al-Fayed's conspiracies about Diana and Dodi's deaths, but no set-piece public speech was delivered by Stevens on the matter.^[72] Contrary to what the episode shows Al-Fayed also never left Britain.^[72] There were also no credible polls published in the 2000s that suggested more than 50% of the public believed Diana was murdered.^[72] The scenes showing William and Harry's relationship falling apart as early as 2002 were also fictional.^[72]


Episode 10 features a fictional plotline in which the Queen is shown to self-debate the idea of abdication in favour of her son Charles in the days leading up to his wedding to Camilla.^[72]