From the opening scene in the first episode — with cars speeding down a Paris street moments before sounds of an off-screen crash — The Crown makes plain that its sixth and final season will finally depict a seismic moment. Both Bullen and Burack also said that another private moment shown in The Crown likely did happen in some way: when then-Prince Charles, played by Dominic West, pushes a reluctant Queen Elizabeth to show grief over Diana's death publicly and give her a public funeral. While it may seem as if her ghost were visiting them – Dodi is also shown having a post-death conversation with his father – for me, the scenes played as if these people were working through their feelings by imagining conversations with Diana and Dodi that they were no longer able to have.