Part one of season six of Netflix’s The Crown launched on the platform on November 16, and focused mainly on the relationship between Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed before the fateful crash that took both their lives on August 31, 1997.
Fans were left waiting to get their hands on the last instalment of the final season, which was released on the streaming platform today.
Part two focuses mainly on Prince William, and captures his budding romance with Kate Middleton – now Princess Kate.
While the limelight is on William and Kate in the last instalment, royal expert Tessa Dunlop, who watched the final episodes ahead of release, said that the show’s focus on William “puts Harry’s feelings of being spare in context”.
She told OK! Magazine: “Harry is very much the kind of goofball like the joker but there’s a kind of tense conversation about William always being the responsible one etc.
She continued: “Harry was, again, not hugely prominent in this series.
“William is the linchpin here and he’s foregrounded. He takes part in the investigation in the wake of Diana’s death involving the Metropolitan Police, he’s interviewed for that, but Harry isn’t.
“While it’s all fictionalised and the conversations are fictionalised some of the concerns around William’s welfare aren’t entirely inaccurate – he was the heir to the throne, he was the first one to fall in love significantly. Harry was trotting along behind, being a bit naughty, making jokes, serving champagne in tea cups but William was more serious.
“So in terms of your takeaway, you think no wonder Harry felt a bit overcast because just like in real life, while they didn’t love Harry and William probably any differently, the institutional monarchy was more focused on William because he’s going to be king. And that puts Harry’s feelings of being spare in context.”
The expert added: “The idea that Harry was close to his grandmother, but if I was Harry I’d be quite triggered by it, it’s all about William… It reinforces the idea of Harry in the shadows and why he might feel overlooked and angry.”
The series comes in a year where Prince Harry had released his own tell-all memoir Spare, which among many topics, detailed the impact of being the brother of an heir, which puts much of The Crown’s final episodes into context.
