Diana Killed ‘The Crown’

“In a scripted world carefully cribbed from real life, how do you solve a problem like Diana?” That’s what Kat Rosenfield asks about the new season of The Crown, which portrays the princess’s death, an event that has loomed over the show since it debuted seven years ago. Now that we’ve reached Diana’s final days, the writers have treated the royal less like “a flesh-and-blood human than a sort of sexless sage.” They have “tried to turn her into a hero, for reasons understandable and even arguably noble,” Kat argues. “But in doing so, they’ve transformed a flawed and fascinating woman into a mawkish caricature of goodness, one that elides reality.” Read Kat’s full story here

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