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Princess Diana was “queer”, the actress portraying the late royal in The Crown has said, ahead of the release of new episodes of the hit Netflix drama. Emma Corrin, 26, who portrayed the late Princess Diana in the fourth series of the Netflix show, told The Sunday Times that the former Princess of Wales had always welcomed “outsiders” into the royal fold.
Corrin said that “in many ways Diana was so queer”, and was considered “other” in the Royal Family.
The next instalment of the drama, which will feature Elizabeth Debicki taking up the role of Diana, is due to air next month.
Corrin commented of Debicki: “She’s lovely, but we haven’t actually talked that much about Diana.
“I think she’s aware that I’m here if she ever wanted to ask a question, though.”
Debicki’s debut as the late princess will hit the streaming service on November 9.
This comes as tension mounts over how the series will handle the death of Princess Diana on screen.
She died in a car crash in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris on August 31, 1997.
An anonymous source has claimed that a “line is being crossed” with the portrayal of “Diana’s final days and hours”.
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“With some of those moments still so fresh and upsetting, it feels as though a line is being crossed.
“Some production staff are now starting to speak up about their feelings.”
But Netflix said that the “exact moment of the crash impact will not be shown” in the series.
The Crown’s plot received high-profile criticism from former Prime Minister Sir John Major, who is set to be depicted by Jonny Lee Miller in the upcoming series.
Referring to a planned scene in the fifth series in which King Charles appears to speak with the then-Prime Minister about potential for the Queen’s abdication while Charles was still the Prince of Wales, Sir John called the drama a “barrel load of malicious nonsense”.
The former Prime Minister’s office said: “Sir John has not cooperated in any way with The Crown. Nor has he ever been approached by them to fact-check any script material in this or any other series.”
A spokesperson for the Netflix show then responded: “The Crown has always been presented as a drama based on historical events.
“Series five is a fictional dramatisation, imagining what could have happened behind closed doors during a significant decade for the Royal Family – one that has already been scrutinised and well-documented by journalists, biographers and historians.”
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