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The world-renowned series about the British Royal Family is not yet ending.

It was always the intention that there would be a season six for The Crown, but then Netflix dialled back and said that season five would conclude the royal drama.

Well, it’s going back on its word, because as showrunner Peter Morgan says, “in order to do justice to the richness and complexity of the story we should go back to the original plan and do six seasons.”

So six seasons it is, which fans are thankful for because there is still a lot of ground left to cover, per Good Housekeeping.

Season five ended right before Princess Diana embarked on that whirlwind summer vacation with her future boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed.

Since the next season inches toward the early 2000s, The Crown will be gearing up to film the events that inevitably led up to their tragic passing – the infamous 1997 Paris car crash.

Morgan has made it clear that the accident won’t feature directly in the series:

“We’ve been dreading getting to this point,” cited Netflix sources…

“While we’re calmly carrying on, it’s fair to acknowledge that there’s a certain anxiety — a palpable sense of being slightly on edge. I mean, there’s bombshell sensitivity surrounding this one.”

King Charles III’s on-screen counterpart, Dominic West, said in June that the forthcoming season would be “as tumultuous as it gets”.

The sixth instalment won’t cover any modern-day royals, though, meaning Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s relationship is off the table.

As a rule, Morgan prefers to cover events 20 years in the past:

“I just think you get so much more interesting [with time]. Meghan and Harry are in the middle of their journey, and I don’t know what their journey is or how it will end,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.

“One wishes some happiness, but I’m much more comfortable writing about things that happened at least 20 years ago. That is enough time and enough distance to really understand something, to understand its role, to understand its position, to understand its relevance.”

You’re probably wondering if there will be a new cast and crew, as a change-up has become typical of the series.

You’ll be glad to know then that all the key players of season five will carry out their legacy characters through the final season.

Elizabeth Debicki will reprise her role as Princess Diana, Imelda Staunton will continue as Queen Elizabeth, with Jonathan Pryce as Prince Phillip, Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret, Dominic West as Prince Charles, and Olivia Williams as Camilla Parker Bowles.

There are also two actors for Prince William:

Rufus Kampa will embody the young prince at 15 in the wake of his mother’s passing. Ed McVey will inherit the role of William when he enters his university years and courts Kate at St. Andrews in 2001.

Meg Bellamy will play the future Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton.

Teddy Hawley and Will Powell will both play young Prince Harry, with the search still on for a slightly older Prince Harry.

Season six began filming in September, so new episodes of The Crown season six will premiere on Netflix in 2023, as such.

Hopefully, we can expect an official trailer come next May or June.

[source:goodhousekeeping]