{"id":31271,"date":"2023-12-08T12:06:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T11:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=253640"},"modified":"2023-12-09T09:13:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T08:13:02","slug":"the-crown-s6-the-challenges-of-telling-the-story-of-living-royals","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-crown-s6-the-challenges-of-telling-the-story-of-living-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crown S6: the challenges of telling the story of living royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the final season of the hit Netflix series The Crown reaches our screens, the show\u2019s head of research, Annie Sulzberger, speaks to Elinor Evans about the importance and process of interrogating power <\/p>

By Rachel Dinning\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 08 December 2023 at 11:06 AM<\/p>

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Elinor Evans: The final season of The Crown<\/em> charts the story of the royal family from 1997 to 2005. Are there any unique challenges of telling the stories of living royals, and of the Windsor dynasty in particular?<\/h4>\n
Annie Sulzberger:<\/strong> Sometimes the biggest issue is our collective memory, because we remember things in the moment. If, for example, you asked the public today how many people died in the car crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed, they would say two. In fact, there were three \u2013 but that third victim got little coverage in the newspapers.<\/p>\n
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Most of the information about the crash did not come out until 2008, when Operation Paget [the Metropolitan Police inquiry established in 2004 to investigate conspiracy theories surrounding Diana\u2019s death] was published. All of a sudden, you could rebuild that entire summer through very credible testimony from close friends, bodyguards and the Ritz staff who went with Dodi to buy the ring that we feature in the series.<\/p>\n
We needed those 10 years of investigations to get to the fundamental material with which to build our story. If we had stopped in 1997, and used only resources from then, pretty much what you would have been stuck with is the emotional responses to a moment in history, because that\u2019s all we had at the time. But nobody had quite figured out truly what had happened, and what Diana was feeling about Dodi.<\/p>