The Crown: First Look photos of William and Kate’s royal fairytale from final season
Check out the first-look photos of what’s to come in the final season of The Crown, including the sheer dress that first brought Kate Middleton to the attention of a young Prince William.
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Netflix, which is preparing to release its final six episodes of The Crown, is teasing audiences with nine photos from the Emmy-winning historical drama’s last hurrah.
The first-look pictures for the second half of season six — which will end the hit royal drama — show grown-up Prince William and Prince Harry after the death of their mother Princess Diana (played by Australian Elizabeth Debicki).
It also introduces Meg Bellamy in the highly anticipated role of Kate Middleton.
One of the photos is of the infamous 2002 University of St. Andrews fashion show, where Kate stunned the audience in a see-through dress and officially caught the eye of the prince.
“In season six, the arrival of William and Kate and Harry just blows the doors off,” The Crown creator Peter Morgan said last November.
“You want to see them. It happened in the read-through. You could just see everyone was looking up and looking at each other across the room. And every time William spoke, it was like, ‘Oh, my God, this is just riveting.’”
The first half of the final season consisted of four episodes (which are now streaming) and focused on Diana’s final months, including her relationship with Dodi Fayed (played by Khalid Abdalla) and their last moments together before their fatal 1997 car crash in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris.
The second half of the season, which releases December 14, will see Ed McVey’s teenage Prince William take centre stage, as he adjusts to his new-found notoriety while mourning the death of his mother.
Another first-look image shows William greeting adoring fans waving Union Jack flags, hanging out on the couch with Harry, and skiing with his brother and their father, then known as Prince Charles.
And then, in another teaser image, Kate Middleton comes along and is pictured in deep conversation with the young Prince William.
In March 2023, college students at the University of St Andrews in Scotland shared behind-the-scenes photos of The Crown actors filming on campus that went viral on TikTok.
In reality, Prince William and Kate Middleton met while they were both studying at that school.
In its first three days on Netflix, part one of The Crown’s new season amassed 36.9 million hours viewed, according to the streamer.
It remained first on Netflix’s series ranking for its premiere week, however the viewership was not as large as prior seasons, which were dropped all at once.
While part one zeroed in on the events leading up to Diana’s death, part two will be more expansive and cover several years, from Prince William’s return to Eton after his mother’s death to Queen Elizabeth’s Golden Jubilee in 2002.
It also includes the marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005 and moves onto the early stages of William’s relationship with future wife Kate Middleton.
“Part one also spent time on Charles (West) and Camilla’s (Williams) relationship, as Charles finally won over some support from the Queen,” the logline reads.
“Staunton took over the role of Queen Elizabeth II in season five and finishes out the show as it moves into the early 2000s.
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