The Crown bosses' fury as filming resumes to recreate Princess Diana's death
Netflix has sparked more fury — with plans to recreate Princess Diana’s final tragic moments in Paris in The CrownFilming was halted in Barcelona on September 9 following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Local press reported in the run-up to the weekend and yesterday/on Saturday that series chiefs would be recording the events leading up to Diana’s ill-fated 1997 trip to Paris when she died in an underpass crash. Respected Catalan daily El Periodico said on Saturday: “The scene filmed is the fatal car accident Lady Di suffered.”
Catalan online news website NacioDigital, claiming the September 9 suspension had led to a change of venue from an elegant avenue of gardens called the Jardinets de Gracia, said: “The producers of the series wanted to carry out one of the most critical moments in the history of the British monarchy in the Jardinets de Gracia, the death of Diana in a traffic accident.