First Teaser for ‘The Crown’ Season 6

Imelda Staunton’s Queen Elizabeth II Reflects on Her Duty and Sacrifice in the First Teaser for ‘The Crown’s Sixth Season

The final season of the Netflix series will debut on the streaming service on 16 November in two parts.

Preview

The Crown returns for its sixth and final season on Thursday, November 16th for a four-episode Part 1 followed by the six episodes of Part 2 on Thursday, December 14th.
Princes William and Harry will be played by different actors across the two parts.
This new season will deal with the death of Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki).

If it feels like we’ve been waiting a long time for the return of ‘The Crown’, it’s not like we’ve had to be patient for two years like the break between casts –– Season 4 arrived in 2020 and we had to wait two years for the fifth.

Now, though Season 6 will be with us a little over a year after Season 5, but there is an extra twist –– it’s being split into two parts, which means a wait of roughly a month to get the whole season.

But yes, the Royal Family –– or at least Netflix’s version of them, as created by Peter Morgan ––will be back next month: November 16th, to be exact. And the new teaser for the season finds Imelda Staunton’s Queen Elizabeth II looking back almost as much as she confronts the future.

What’s the story of ‘The Crown’ Season 6?

(L to R) Meg Bellamy as Kate Middleton and Ed McVey as Prince William in Netflix's 'The Crown' season 6. Photo: Justin Downing.

The sixth and final season covers events from 1997 through 2005. The first four episodes (Part 1) depict a relationship blossoming between Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) and Dodi Fayed (Khalid Abdalla) before a fateful car journey has devastating consequences.

The final chapter (Part 2) is told across six episodes. Prince William (Ed McVey) tries to integrate back into life at Eton in the wake of his mother’s death as the monarchy has to ride the wave of public opinion. As she reaches her Golden Jubilee, the Queen reflects on the future of the monarchy with the marriage of Charles and Camilla and the beginnings of a new Royal fairytale in William and Kate.

Who appears in ‘The Crown’ Season 6?

Ed McVey as Prince William in Netflix's 'The Crown' season 6. Photo: Keith Bernstein.

The cast for this latest season also includes Jonathan Pryce (Prince Philip), Lesley Manville (Princess Margaret) and Salim Daw (Mohamed Al Fayed).

The growing Windsor children will see more re-casting, as Rufus Kampa plays Prince William and Fflyn Edwards is Prince Harry in Part 1. For Part 2, McVey takes over as William, joined by Luther Ford as Harry, while Meg Bellamy is Kate Middleton.

The teaser certainly continues the feeling of the Queen reflecting on her reign, as Claire Foy’s young Queen pops up on the TV in her chambers and we hear voiceover from the previous holder of the role, Olivia Colman.

‘The Crown’s final season is also tasked with portraying possibly the trickiest and most tragic topics of the Royals’ recent history –– the death of Diana and its emotional fallout for not just the family, but the U.K. at large.

And no, we don’t predict a flash-forward to 2011, with the family gathered around the TV, intrigued by the pilot episode of new TV drama ‘Suits’…