PremiumThe Crown: Princess Diana's close friend Jemima Khan cuts ties with the Netflix series
Jemima Khan was hired by The Crown creator Peter Morgan to handle the script of the fifth season.
Last Updated: 09.55 AM, Nov 09, 2021
The fourth season of The Crown witnessed the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Not just that, the series also shows their marriage falling apart. For the fifth season, Jemima Khan was hired by Peter Morgan, the creator of The Crown, to write season-five scripts about her best friend Diana's life. However, she has now cut ties with the Netflix series because she feels the series has not handled the script "respectfully or compassionately as I had hoped."
While talking about the same, Khan told The Times that it was critical to her that the closing years of Diana's life be depicted truthfully and compassionately, as this had not always been the case in the past.
She was hired to pen the script, which includes chapters of Diana's romances with surgeons Hasnat Khan and Dodi Fayed, the infamous BBC Panorama interview with Martin Bashir, and the last two years of her life, which included the tragic Paris car crash in 1997.
Meanwhile, in The Crown season four, we saw that, as the 1970s came to an end, Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) and her family were worried about ensuring the line of succession by finding a suitable spouse for Prince Charles (Josh O'Connor), who was still single at the age of 30.
As the nation began to experience the effects of Margaret Thatcher (Gillian Anderson), Britain's first female Prime Minister, polarised policies, tensions built between her and the Queen, which only worsened as Thatcher led the country into the Falklands War, causing strife among the Commonwealth.
While Charles' romance with a young Lady Diana Spencer (Emma Corrin) brought the British people together, the Royal family has becoming increasingly split behind closed doors.
In the upcoming season of The Crown, Prince Charles and Princess Diana will be played by Dominic West and Elizabeth Debicki, respectively.
Imelda Staunton, Jonathan Pryce, and Lesley Manville will be seen as Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, and Princess Margaret.