Elizabeth Debicki has recreated Princess Diana’s iconic Vogue cover shoot for the Radio Times – ahead of the premiere of the final season of The Crown.
The late Princess featured as a cover star for the December 1992 edition of the iconic fashion magazine five years before her tragic death, aged 36.
The Australian actress plays the Princess of Wales in season five and season six of the hit Netflix show based on the royal family.
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The 33-year-old actress wore a black polo-neck sweater reminiscent of the one worn by Diana in her original shoot and modelled the same blonde hairstyle as she posed for the cover spread.
The Vogue cover was shot by French photographer Patrick Demarchelier and was originally intended for the cover of Diana’s 1992 biography.
Fans of The Crown are reportedly in store for a shock as the sixth and final series is set to depict Princess Diana’s fatal car crash.
Elizabeth recently admitted that filming the scenes leading up to Diana’s death were extremely heavy and invasive.
Speaking ahead of The Crown’s release, the actress opened up about the emotional effect filming the gut-wrenching scenes had on her.
“At times it’s almost like an animalistic response to being pursued, by that many actors playing the Press, because there’s nowhere you can go and you only have to be in a situation like that for about a minute before you realise this is completely unbearable.”
The 33-year-old revealed that filming the Princess of Wales’ final 24-hours were incredibly demanding on the actress and added: “I think it’s going to be really interesting to see how people respond to the show.”
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Producers of the show came under fire earlier this year when it emerged that they had shot scenes of the run-up to the crash, footage of a mangled car and Diana’s coffin.
According to the UK Sun, the first four episodes will cover 1997 when the late Princess of Wales (Elizabeth Debicki) and Dodi Al-Fayed (Khalid Abdalla) began dating.
The final six episodes will document the years up to 2005 when Prince Charles married Camilla Parker-Bowles.
You can watch the full trailer for season 6 of The Crown here.
