The sixth and closing season of Netflix‘s long-running hit sequence “The Crown” arrived on Netflix on Thursday. The sixth season covers the 1997 to 2000 interval, chronicling the premature loss of life of Princess Diana, the rise of Prime Minister Tony Blair and the beginning of Prince William’s and Kate Middleton’s relationship.
Out of the numerous photographs which have made the rounds on the web because the season premiere is of Elizabeth Debicki, who performs Princess Diana, in a Tiffany blue one-piece swimsuit. When Diana wore the swimsuit in 1997, it was simply days earlier than her loss of life.
In “The Crown,” the swimsuit is featured in two key scenes. In episode two of the sixth season, Diana wears it standing alone on a diving board. In episode three, she wears it in a pre-credits close-up scene. Debicki within the swimsuit additionally serves as key paintings for the season six promotional poster.
The blue swimsuit comes from a picture taken of Diana by paparazzi as she sat on the plank of a yacht as she was on a Mediterranean vacation with Dodi Al Fayed, son of the then-Harrods’ boss, the late Mohammed Al Fayed. Diana was romantically linked to Dodi Al Fayed on the time main as much as her loss of life.
The blue swimsuit is amongst one among Diana’s extra notable appears, because it was one of many final the paparazzi captured her in. Nevertheless, it has been solely because the debut of the present season of “The Crown” that the swimsuit started being mentioned with the identical gravitas as a few of her extra iconic appears.
Whereas the princess’ model was celebrated all through her time as a member of the royal household — and since — amongst different outfits which have turn out to be indelibly linked to her are the black “revenge costume” designed by Christina Stambolian that Diana wore the evening Prince Charles revealed his infidelity with Camilla Parker Bowles and Diana’s sheep sweater by Heat & Great that she wore to a 1981 polo match that includes Prince Charles. The sweater offered for $1.1 million at public sale final September.
