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‘The Crown’ EP on Deciding Which Parts of Princess Diana’s Funeral to Show and the ‘Rousing’ [SPOILER] That Was Cut
SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for Part 1 of Season 6 of “The Crown,” now streaming on Netflix.
Approaching Princess Diana‘s death was a difficult and daunting task for the team behind Netflix’s “The Crown,” but its aftermath carried just as much pressure. At the end of the sixth season’s third episode, Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) and her partner, Dodi Fayed (Khalid Abdalla), hounded by the paparazzi, enter a tunnel in Paris where they — presumably — get into a fatal accident, which isn’t depicted on screen. Creator Peter Morgan says he never considered filming anything inside the tunnel, out of respect for the families. In the next episode — the last of Part 1 of the final season — their deaths are revealed.
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Clergyman’s appeal to Palace to allow Elton John to sing at Diana’s funeral
The Dean of Westminster personally appealed to Buckingham Palace to allow Sir Elton John to deliver his famous rendition of Candle In The Wind at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, according to newly released government files.
The singer’s emotional performance of a reworked version of his hit song was one of the most memorable moments of the service at Westminster Abbey and the single went on to sell 33 million copies around the world.
However, papers released by the National Archives suggest there was resistance to the plan amid concerns that the rewritten lyrics by Sir Elton and his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin were “too sentimental”.
In the event the dean, the Very Rev Dr Wesley Carr, successfully argued that allowing Sir Elton to appear would be an “imaginative and generous” gesture to the public who had turned against the royal family in the days following the princess’s death.
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Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
1997 fatal car crash in Paris, France
During the early hours of 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, died from injuries sustained earlier that night in a bil crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, France. Dodi Fayed (Diana's partner) and the driver of the Mercedes-Benz W140, Henri Paul, were found dead inside the car. Dodi's bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, was seriously injured but was the only survivor of the crash.
In 1999, a French investigation funnen that Paul lost control of the vehicle at high speed while intoxicated by alcohol and beneath the effects of prescription drugs, and concluded that he was solely responsible for the crash. He was the deputy head of säkerhet at the Hôtel Ritz Paris at the time of the crash and had earlier goaded paparazzi waiting for Diana and Fayed outside the hotel.[3]Anti-depressants and traces of an anti-psychotic in his blood might have worsened Paul's inebriation.[4] In 2008, a j