Diana's final days

Elizabeth Debicki and Dominic West on the heartbreaking final chapter of acclaimed royal drama The Crown

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The Crown From Thursday 16 November, Netflix 

Attracting widespread acclaim, countless awards and no little controversy, The Crown has been one of the world's most talked about TV dramas since it debuted on Netflix in 2016.

Now, after covering nearly 50 years of royal romance, rivalry and scandal, the series is finally reaching a much-anticipated sixth and final 10-part season.

The closing chapter will air in two parts, beginning with four episodes from Thursday 16 November, followed by the final six episodes on 14 December. This week, the story picks up in 1997 to tell the tale of Princess Diana's final days and the aftermath of her death.

It was a momentous few weeks that saw an unprecedented outpouring of public grief and changed the monarchy forever. And Australian star Elizabeth Debicki says she was aware of the huge responsibility of playing Diana during one of the most turbulent episodes in the Windsors' history.

'Portraying those days has been a unique challenge as an actor,' says Debicki. "The story is devastating and it's fraught, so I really just trusted in the emotional blueprint the show's creator, Peter Morgan, mapped out. It made emotional sense to me, so I clung to that?

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