#The crown season 6

[cherubinhell]

"No matter what."

Elizabeth x Margaret » The Crown 6x08 Ritz

[perioddramasource]

"But my face was on the tea towels, so I didn't really have a choice."

ELIZABETH DEBICKI as DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES ↳ THE CROWN || 6x01 "Persona Non Grata"

[duchessdi]

elizabeth debicki recreated diana’s photoshoot with mario testino ♥︎

[lunaoblonsky]

[thecrownnet]

Duty lasts a lifetime

[octoberwitchsblog]

Just finished the first episodes of the Crown's last season and it's safe to say that a more vulgar shitshow never saw the sight of the screen. Everything, from the treatment of Diana into this constant victim, to the villainization of the Al-Fayed family (as if Mohammed would give two fucks about anything else than justice for his only boy), without forgetting Charles' whitewashing, is absolutely vulgar in every way. Representing the only Arab characters of your show like literal fame-diggers in order to make the royal family appear more "dignified" is honestly borderline racist.

It's amazing to me how those writers take such a distorted version of the truth and treat Diana and Dodi, and even Mohammed Al-Fayed, DEAD PEOPLE, like pawns in their romanticization of the royal family. I mean, Diana appearing as a ghost to Charles to absolve him of literaly destroying years of her life ? Really ? The first seasons of the show got us used to better quality and better respect of the complexity of these characters. This is just becoming a cheesy and biased documentary instead of being the nuanced portrait of one of the most complex institutions in the world. What a disappointment. The whole thing is barely saved by the exceptional performances of all of these actors, but even they deserves better than this fanfiction writing.

[sineva]

the crown s6e4 || fleabag s2e6

[foxymoon-stuff]

Dianas 😍

[missgardenrose]

Was having Diana’s “ghost” talk to Charles and Elizabeth cringey? Absolutely. But I also interpreted it a slightly different way: this isn’t her ghost, this is a visual manifestation of C and E’s guilt and whatever version of Diana they perceived. It’s simply a tool for their own thoughts to take form. Also, at the end when Elizabeth is praying she looks over her shoulder as if something else is in the room with her – THIS is Diana’s real “ghost”.

Anyways. It’s still weird but …

[save-the-sky]

gosh the contrast between Diana walking a fucking minefield and everyone being more concerned about her and Dodi kissing on a boat

[lunedits]

[cherubinhell]

"From the day she was born, Margaret Rose has been my constant companion."

Elizabeth x Margaret » The Crown 6x08 Ritz

[primasveraas]

the crown s6a spoilers without context:

[ingek73]

‘In the manner of a Hallmark movie, Diana is marked for death at every turn – you know, just in case you are unaware of the fate of the most famous woman in the world and have forgotten the frenzy of grief that gripped the country thereafter. She is, in The Crown’s telling of it, a virtual saint: see her talk about landmines! See her play normal middle-class games with her beloved boys! See her fall in love with sweet Dodi Fayed! See her furrowed brow as she takes the sensible advice of her therapist on board and pledges to start a new life as soon as she gets home from Paris and away from these villainous paparazzi who are following her into this tunnel! And thus the postmortem convulsions of an entire country are presented as no more than her due. By the time she has called William and Harry, the point has been so laboured that this is the last communication they will have with their mother that there might as well be a news ticker along the bottom of the screen screaming in capitals “TUNNEL COMING! SHE GONNA DIE SO BAD!”

And yet the worst is still to come: after her death, Ghost Diana appears to Prince Charles and then to the Queen as a kind of ministering angel, illuminating for them the way and the light and the best way of tending to the mood of the people, to whose every individual heart she has always had a direct hotline. She thanks Charles “for being so raw, broken and handsome” in the hospital when he saw her body. “I’ll take that with me,” she adds. My notes at this point are indecipherable, which is just as well, as I suspect what they say would be unprintable. By the time Ghost Diana takes the Queen’s hand and gently whispers “You’ve always shown us what it meant to be British. Maybe it’s time to learn, too”, and prompts her to cave in to the headline’s demand to “Show us you care, Ma’am”, I am having quite the out-of-body experience myself.

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[queenwhoneverwasx]

Eve Best as Carole Middleton in The Crown 6x09

credit for pics

[thecrownnet]

First Official Look at The Crown Season 6

Part 1 premieres on Nov. 16. Part 2 premieres on Dec. 14.