The fifth season of the popular series The Crown does not come out for a year but already, it is causing a lot of ink to flow. It must be said that she will represent on screen the end of Diana’s life … a delicate period of which Jemima Goldsmith (Kahn) was a privileged witness, she who was a close friend of the Princess of Wales. It is for this reason that the creator of the Netflix series asked for his help in writing the next long-awaited episodes. Except that this collaboration only lasted a few months.
In a new interview with Sunday Times of November 7, 2021, Jemima Goldsmith spoke about this project for the first time: “In 2019, Peter Morgan asked me to co-write the fifth series of The Crown, especially the episodes which concerned the last years of Princess Diana before her death. After a long reflection, having never spoken publicly about any of this before, I decided to contribute“Said the 47-year-old British producer.”It was really important to me that the last years of my friend’s life were described with precision and compassion, since this has not always happened in the past.. “Does she thus refer to the eating disorders of Lady Di, represented in a very realistic way in season 4, to the point of irritating Prince Charles and Prince William?
Started in September 2020, this discreet collaboration finally ended in February 2021: “When I realized that this particular storyline wouldn’t necessarily be told with as much respect or compassion as I had hoped, I requested that all my contributions be removed from the series.added the daughter of billionaire Sir James Goldsmith and Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart.
Contacted by the Sunday Times, the production of The Crown commented on Jemima Goldsmith’s testimony stating that she “has been part of a large network of knowledgeable and varied sources who have provided a great deal of background information to our writers and researchers“. However, she would”never been hired as a screenwriter on the series“. If the flagship program of Netflix was able to count – for a time – on the wise advice of Jemima Khan, it preferred to do without the help of Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York and Diana’s sister-in-law.
A promising 5th season
Diana’s historic but dubious truth interview on the show Panorama, during which she openly evoked the end of her marriage with Prince Charles, her romance with the surgeon Hasnat Khan, her ultimate romance with Mohamed Al Fayed, who died with her in the terrible car accident that occurred in Paris in the summer of 1997 … So many elements that should be transposed to the screen, in a fictionalized version more or less close to reality, for which the actress Elizabeth debicki slipped into Lady Di’s skin.