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Diana Killed ‘The Crown’
Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana in The Crown season 6. (Netflix)
Plus: Four lives well lived.
By Oliver Wiseman
12.02.23
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Today from The Free Press, two essays about martyrdom and mythmaking. 

“In a scripted world carefully cribbed from real life, how do you solve a problem like Diana?” That’s what Kat Rosenfield asks about the new season of The Crown, which portrays the princess’s death, an event that has loomed over the show since it debuted seven years ago. Now that we’v…

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Oliver Wiseman
Oliver Wiseman is the deputy editor of The Free Press. Previously, he was the executive editor of The Spectator World and a regular contributor to UnHerd, City Journal, the Evening Standard, and a range of other publications.
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