Star of Netflix’s The Crown takes plunge as series recreates Princess Diana’s last holiday
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Sitting alone with her mind on the end of a diving board, it is one of the last photographs taken of Princess Diana before her death.
Now Elizabeth Debicki has recreated the famous shot for the sixth and final series of The Crown.
The Australian actress, 32, looked identical to the late royal as she reenacted Diana’s last holiday with friend Dodi Fayed, six days before their deaths on August 31, 1997.
Miss Debicki was pictured stretching in a blue swimsuit while filming for the Netflix drama in Mallorca.
She also posed in a pink patterned bathing suit as she reenacted Diana’s last cruise from the south of France to the Italian coast on Dodi’s yacht.
Miss Debicki stars alongside British-Egyptian actor Khalid Abdalla, who plays Dodi, and Imelda Staunton, who replaces Olivia Colman as the Queen.
Sitting alone with her mind on the end of a diving board, it is one of the last photos taken of Princess Diana before her death (left). Now Elizabeth Debicki has recreated the famous shot for the sixth and final series of The Crown (pictured right)
Crown actress Elizabeth Debicki recreated Diana’s last vacation with boyfriend Dodi Fayed (pictured together) six days before their deaths on Aug. 31, 1997
The latest images come weeks after Miss Debicki was pictured mimicking Diana’s trip to the island of Nevis in the West Indies in January 1993.
She was pictured barefoot on a villa balcony on location in Mallorca, Spain, wearing an oversized white t-shirt that she paired with black sunglasses.
Diana was famously pictured wearing a white t-shirt with a colorful print on a day trip to Banana Beach with her two sons, months after her divorce from Prince Charles, who is played by Dominic West.
The holiday marked her reunion with her sons after spending Christmas with Charles.
Newcomers, Timothee Sambor and West’s son Senan, will play a young Prince William, while Teddy Hawley is among the cast to play Prince Harry.
Diana was accompanied on the Caribbean island by her good friend Catherine Soames and her nine-year-old son Harry.
Miss Debicki (right) was pictured stretching in a blue swimsuit while filming for the Netflix drama in Mallorca, as Diana (left) had been photographed 25 years earlier while at work
She also posed in a pink patterned swimsuit as she reenacted Diana’s last cruise from the south of France to the Italian coast on Dodi’s yacht.
Miss Debicki also shot scenes dressed in the pale pink shirt and black pants the former Princess of Wales wore while promoting the Landmine Survivors Network in Bosnia’s capital Sarajevo in 1997.
Shooting for the upcoming final series was suspended twice after the Queen’s death last month.
Writer Peter Morgan described The Crown as a “love letter” to the late monarch, telling Deadline, “I expect we will stop filming out of respect as well.”
Imelda Staunton, 65, has replaced Olivia Colman, 47, as the Queen, while Lesley Manville, 65, has taken over Helena Bonham Carter, 55, as Princess Margaret.
Trainspotting star Jonny Lee Miller, 49, plays former Prime Minister John Major and Jonathan Pryce, 74, plays Prince Philip.
Diana was famously pictured wearing a white T-shirt with a colorful print on a day trip to Banana Beach in St Kitts in January 1993 with her two sons, months after her divorce from Prince Charles.
Newcomers, Timothee Sambor (right) and Dominic West’s son, Senan, will play a young Prince William, while Teddy Hawley (second from left) is one of the cast to play Prince Harry
Other cast members include Emma Laird Craig as Sarah, the Duchess of York and Marcia Warren as the Queen Mother.
Diana and Dodi were sitting in the passenger seats of a Mercedes-Benz driven by Henri Paul, a security officer at The Ritz, when they were killed in a collision in Paris.
The final series of The Crown will not film the crash, according to sources.
“We were scared to get to this point,” a source at the production said Deadline. “The countdown is two weeks and as we go on calmly, it’s fair to recognize that there is a certain fear; a palpable feeling of being a little tense.
“I mean, there’s an explosive sensibility around this one.”
Series five launches on November 9.