Princess Diana is soaking up the sun on a super yacht in the south of France. “It’s a little mad, if I’m honest,” she tells her worried therapist, Susie Orbach, who’s on the other end of the phone. Diana’s voice is slow and sloaney. She idly waves at her lover Dodi Fayed in the distance. It’s a rare moment of calm in episode three, season six of Netflix’s The Crown.
IN FOCUS: In season six of Netflix’s royal epic, Diana’s therapist advises her to step away from her affair with Dodi Fayed, calling the adrenaline she gets from the chaotic relationship ‘addictive’. Charlotte Cripps, who thrives on intensity herself, takes a look at how genuine drama addiction really is
The Crown has reimagined a heart-rending scene where Mohamed Al-Fayed kisses the dead body of his beloved son, Dodi Al-Fayed, following the fatal car crash in Paris 1997.