ROYAL CARNAGE
Fresh chaos for Royal Family hours after King’s ‘friendly’ call with Prince Harry with The Crown bombshells set to drop
The series notably features the event that shook the British monarchy to its core
THE Royal Family will be bracing themselves for fresh chaos just hours after the King's "friendly" call with Harry as The Crown is set to hit screens tomorrow.
The 10 episodes of the sixth and final season of the series is being released in two stages, with five episodes on Thursday, and the remainder on December 14.
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The series notably features the event that shook the British monarchy to its core -- the death of Princess Diana on August 31, 1997.
Elizabeth Debicki returns as Princess Diana, with the show facing a slew of criticism.
The new season will reenact the last few months of Princess Diana's troubled life while exploring Prince Charles at the time as a man who wants her replaced in the public's opinion with Camilla, played by Olivia Williams.
Other storylines include William's romance with Kate Middleton.
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An alleged disagreement between the future king and Queen Elizabeth II, played by Imelda Staunton, appears in the first episode.
The Queen and Charles clashed over attempts to get Her Majesty's public seal of approval on his and Camilla's relationship.
Still, she refused, stating that their relationship led to two broken marriages, which included Charles's to Diana and Camilla's to Andrew Parker Bowles.
The Crown will also risk angering the Royal Family when it shows Princess Diana describing her wedding to Charles as like stepping on a landmine.
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Diana visited Bosnia and Herzegovina in August 1997 to see clearance activities and meet landmine victims - just weeks before her death.
One scene in particular is likely to make Prince William's blood boil, Royal commentator and TV presenter Jennie Bond, claims.
It has been revealed that Princess Diana will appear after her death as a ghost, a controversial decision that has left some fans in shock.
A trailer for the series reveals that in two scenes, Diana's "ghost" returns and speaks to senior royals.
In one scene, Charles speaks tenderly to the vision in the cabin of the plane that brought her body back to the UK from Paris.
The scenes were heavily criticised by fans on social media.
Reaction to the controversial sequences forced Peter Morgan to offer an explanation that the characters are imagining Diana, and not being visited by her spirit.
It comes after Prince Harry broke his silence by ringing his father King Charles to wish him a happy 75th birthday — their first conversation in more than six months.
The gracious monarch is also understood to have spoken with his daughter-in-law Meghan during the transatlantic call on a packed day of engagements.
The chats were said to be friendly and cordial — the first time father and son had spoken since April, just before Charles's Coronation.
A source said: "The King was extremely busy but is polite and loves his son and his grandchildren, and not so mean that he would not take a call on his birthday."
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Harry's camp actively made it known he was going to call his father — with the story even appearing on the BBC’s website.
Despite visiting the UK several times since the Coronation, Harry, 39, has not seen his father since that historic day in May.
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