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The 9 most shocking moments from The Crown season six on Netflix, as the end is in sight

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The Crown has entered its sixth and final season, which covers one of the biggest Royal news events in modern history and one of the most earth-shattering celebrity deaths of a generation. It may be well-trodden ground – from 2006's The Queen to 2022's Channel 4 documentary series Investigating Diana: Death in Paris – but The Crown still manages to keep us on the edge of our seat and throw in a few surprises too.

It takes viewers from the start of Diana's sun-soaked summer on superyachts, to the stressful final days in Paris before the car crash. The first half of the final series explores what (turns of there were three people in that potential marriage, too) as well as all of the goings on with The Firm back home. Here are the biggest eyebrow raisers and jaw droppers the latest episodes.

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