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A close friend of has slammed as ‘sadistic and wicked’ over its depiction of her final hours in the latest series of The Crown.<br>Simone Simmons was highly critical of the show’s decision to recreate the moments before Diana’s death in a Paris car crash in 1997. <br>The streaming giant’s fifth season of the programme, which airs on November 9, features haunting scenes showing the former Princess of Wales entering a limousine shortly before the fateful accident.

Netflix insists it will not recreate the crash.<br>Ms Simmons : ‘These are cruel, sadistic and wicked people to recreate these moments.
They are the lowest of the low.<br>’They are rewriting history as they go along and that’s what makes me very angry.'<br> more videos

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Elizabeth Debicki wears sunglasses and looks the image of Diana as she sits in the back of a car with Khalid Abdalla, 40, who plays Dodi Fayed, who the princess was travelling with when the car crashed in Paris<br> Ms Debicki wore a seatbelt in the back of the car as she filmed – which may be a sign the crew were not filming the exact car journey taken by the princess and Dodi in their final moments.

It has been found neither wore seatbelts in the 1997 crash<br> Trailer shows Ms Debicki as Diana screeching to a halt in car chase scene in a red puffer jacket – reminiscent of one the princess wore skiing in Austria in 1994, right<br> ‘I never stood a chance’: The new trailer shows Diana in a skin-baring swimsuit as she floats in the water<br> Prasanna Puwanarajah plays Martin Bashir in Netflix’s recreation of the journalist’s infamous interview with Diana in 1995<br>Ms Simmons went on to slam the flagship show as ‘disgusting and sick’ and questioned if they were ‘setting out’ to hurt the feelings of Princes William and Harry. <br>’It’s forcing them to relive the pain, agony, and psychological torment they suffered when their mother died,’ she said.<br>The Prince of Wales may be angered at scenes recreating his mother’s infamous 1995 interview with Martin Bashir, which was last year deemed to have been obtained unlawfully after the journalist falsified invoices to gain the princess’s trust.<br> William, 40, later issued a public statement saying the interview had been a ‘major contribution to making my parents’ relationship worse’ and said it should never be aired again.<br>In a recent letter to The Times, actress Dame Judi Dench described the upcoming series of The Crown as ‘crude sensationalism’ and ‘cruelly unjust’ to the Royal Family and suggested it should feature a disclaimer at the start of each episode.<br>She wrote: ‘No one is a greater believer in artistic freedom than I, but this cannot go unchallenged.<br> RELATED ARTICLES

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‘The programme makers have resisted all calls for them to carry a disclaimer at the start of each episode. The time has come for Netflix to reconsider – for the sake of a family and a nation so recently bereaved, as a mark of respect to a sovereign who served her people so dutifully for 70 years, and to preserve their own reputation in the eyes of their British subscribers.'<br>The Crown has been a huge hit for Netflix and it now spends around £11.5million per episode.<br>Two years ago, the then-culture secretary Oliver Dowden asked the streaming giant for a ‘health warning’ on episodes so viewers would know scenes were fictionalised, but Netflix refused.

It defended the show this week as ‘fictional dramatisation’.<br>In the fifth series, Barcelona was used for filming as a stand-in for Paris, Slot Deposit Pulsa Tanpa Potongan where Diana died with her boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed.  <br>Elizabeth Debicki, who plays the princess, and Khalid Abdalla, who plays Al-Fayed, were spotted filming scenes in Francesc Macia Square in the centre of the Spanish city.<br>It comes as one of the late Queen’s closest friends claimed that the latest season of The Crown, ‘would have destroyed her’ because of how ‘vicious’ the dramatised plotlines are. <br>The unnamed source told The Sunday Times she’s ‘horrified’ by the vicious untruths set to be presented as fact when the season airs on November 9. <br> more videos

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The latest season of The Crown ‘would have destroyed the Queen’ because of how ‘vicious’ the dramatised plotlines are, one of her close friends has revealed.

Pictured: Imelda Staunton plays Elizabeth II in the fifth series<br>’I’m horrified by what is going on with Netflix and how they are vilifying the Royal Family. It is vicious. It’s as if they’re trying to destroy the Royal Family,’ the source said.<br>’It would have destroyed her.’ <br>The source has joined calls for Netflix to include a disclaimer stating the show is fiction ahead of every episode.<br>This season will cover events from 1990 to 1997 – a famously tumultuous period of royal history.<br>A spokesman for Netflix said the show has always been a fictional dramatisation of the Royal Family’s inner workings.<br>’Series five is…

imagining what could have happened behind closed doors during a significant decade for the royal family – one that has already been scrutinised and well-documented by journalists, biographers and historians.'<br> Among the most controversial scenes are reenactments of Diana’s funeral and the fire which tore through Windsor Castle in 1992.

Pictured: Ms Debicki as the Princess of Wales<br> The family pictured at Diana’s 1997 funeral.

Netflix’s scene depicting a grief-stricken William and Harry – then aged 15 and 12 – was filmed in secrecy at a disused RAF base and is due to be broadcast in series six next year<br>A teaser trailer from the new season revealed the show will chronicle the early days of King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla’s relationship.<br>The series will showcase the couple – played by Dominic West and Olivia Williams – sharing intimate moments while they were married to other people.<br>One impending storyline which has the potential to cause the most angst for the royal family is the dramatisation in next year’s sixth season of Diana’s funeral.<br>Amid mounting outrage over the show’s disregard for historical truth, the macabre scenes are set to depict a grief-stricken William and Prince Harry – then aged 15 and 12.<br>To the further horror of Diana’s family and friends, The Crown’s production team will be in Paris next week to recreate her final hours, The Mail on Sunday revealed.<br>They will portray her time spent in the French capital with her boyfriend Al-Fayed.

While it is understood that the crash that killed them won’t be recreated, scenes of them leaving the Ritz hotel together will be. <br> Imelda Staunton and Jonathon Pryce, who play the Queen and Prince Philip in the new series of The Crown, received honours from Prince William and Elizabeth II<br>Last night those close to the Royal Family lambasted the Netflix series as ‘crude, cruel and totally insensitive, particularly in light of the Queen’s recent death’.<br> An unnamed close friend of the late Queen has told The Sunday Times she’s ‘horrified’ by the vicious untruths set to be presented as fact when the season airs on November 9<br>William Shawcross, the Queen Mother’s official biographer, said: ‘Nothing is sacred to [the writer of The Crown] Peter Morgan. He has made his republican sentiments and his contempt for our late Queen very clear.<br>’This is a vile series which lies to the public and has been incredibly hurtful to the Royal Family from the Queen and our new King down. Unlike any other family, they cannot sue.'<br>It is most unlikely that Morgan and his colleagues on The Crown will have failed to understand the sensitivities around recreating the day William and Harry had to say goodbye to their beloved mother, who died aged 36.<br>Both princes have spoken publicly of their anguish at having to follow the coffin for its final mile along the Mall, through Horse Guards Parade, along Whitehall to Parliament Square and on to Westminster Abbey.<br>The Duke of Sussex has been notably outspoken, telling biographer Angela Levin: ‘My mother had just died and I had to walk a long way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands of people watching me while millions more did on television.<br>’I don’t think any child should be asked to do that, under any circumstances.

I don’t think it would happen today. No child should lose their mother at such a young age and then have his grief observed by thousands of people.'<br> more videos

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Another storyline with show King Charles’s relationship with the Queen Consort.

The couple are played by Dominic West and Olivia Williams<br><div class=”art-ins mol-factbox news” data-version=”2″ id=”mol-d48602e0-5343-11ed-805f-553f0593553d” website in The Crown row over scene showing Princess Diana in limo

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