'The Crown' season 6 recreates famous photographs of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, and King Charles. Here is how they compare to the real photos.

Eve Crosbie,Tufayel AhmedJan 12, 2024, 14:57 IST

"The Crown" season six recreates several famous photographs.Netflix

"The Crown" season six recreates the first public photos of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed kissing.
It also recreates snaps from King Charles' photo shoot with his sons, Princes William and Harry.

"The Crown" is back for a sixth and final season.

The first four episodes focus on the final months of Princess Diana's life as she begins dating Dodi Fayed, with whom she died in a tragic car crash in Paris in August 1997.

The second episode of season six, "Two Photographs," contrasts two key moments that took place in the summer of 1997.

The first is the media frenzy that ensued when the UK's Sunday Mirror newspaper published the first photos of Diana and Dodi kissing on a yacht in Sardinia.

The second is a photo shoot depicting Prince Charles and his sons, Princes William and Harry, having a much more subdued vacation at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.

Here's how "The Crown" depicts the moments — and what they looked like in real life.

On August 10, 1997, the UK's Sunday Mirror published the very first photograph of Diana and Dodi kissing on its front page. The headline? "The Kiss."

The real Sunday Mirror front page of Diana and Dodi.The Sunday Mirror/AP

Under the headline was the text: "Now Dodi flies off to buy an engagement ring for Diana."

The Sunday Mirror's front page teased an engagement.The Sunday Mirror/AP

Here's how the front page was faithfully recreated in "The Crown."

The newspaper front page is recreated in episode two of "The Crown" season six.Netflix

Viewers also see the moment Diana and Dodi share the kiss, not realizing that a photographer is nearby.

The moment of Diana and Dodi's famous kiss is also depicted on "The Crown."Netflix

After the explosive Diana photos were published, King Charles took part in a photo shoot with Princes William and Harry at Balmoral on August 12, 1997.

King Charles with William and Harry at Balmoral in 1997.Julian Parker/Getty

Here's how the photo shoot is recreated in the show.

Rufus Kampa, Dominic West, and Fflyn Edwards recreating the Balmoral photo shoot in "The Crown."Keith Bernstein/Netflix

Princes William and Harry did indeed skip stones across the water, as shown in "The Crown."

The young royals, William and Harry, really did skip stones across the water.Julian Parker

And here they are with their pet dog.

King Charles was then known as Prince Charles.Julian Parker/Getty

"The Crown" takes some creative license when it comes to depicting how British newspapers ran these photos.

The photoshoot is shown on the cover of several newspapers.Netflix

Charles' jaunt with his two sons is shown dominating the front pages of British newspapers — but this never happened.

The photos ran on the frontpage of the same newspaper, The Mirror.Netflix

Likewise, The Daily Record didn't feature the photos on the front page. Its coverage also noted how "embarrassed" William and Harry looked.

Prince Charles also appears to make the front page of The Daily Record in the drama's version of events.Netflix

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