Speaking at Edinburgh TV Festival, The Crown's executive producers Andy Harries and Suzanne Mackie spoke about their portrayal of Princess Diana's 1997 death for the Netflix show's final season
, were traveling by car in Paris with a driver and bodyguard pursued by paparazzi when their vehicle slammed into a support column of a tunnel, flipped and came to a rest in front of oncoming traffic.
Host Ranvir Singh asked if it was the combination of no seatbelts, paparazzi chasing the car and the driver having some drinks. "When you look at most incidents, accidents, you find there's a chain of events, and if any one of those chain of events had been different, it might not have led to that happening," Douglas said. "For example, if they'd been wearing seatbelts, our experts tell us it was probably an 80% chance that they would have survived the accident."
Although the series does not reach the modern years of the monarchy, Harries said at the Edinburgh TV Festival that the September 2022 death of Queen Elizabeth impacted the show's finale. "The passing of Her Majesty impacted on us all…It didn't change [the story] fundamentally, but it did change it in a sense. When you see it, I think you will know what I mean," Harries said, according to Deadline. "It's a very powerful film and a very respectful episode.""It's a huge part of my career and my life, and I'm deeply proud of it," she said. "So suddenly it's ending, and one feels untethered by that.
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