- Dominic West and Elizabeth Debicki had no illusions about the expectations and challenges they’d face as the latest incarnations of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in “The Crown.”
- After all, their predecessors in the roles, Josh O’Connor and Emma Corrin, had each won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for their portrayals in Season 4. And West, 53, and Debicki, 32, were charged with depicting the most precarious chapter of the Charles and Diana story: the painfully public implosion of their royal marriage.
- In early September, the death of Queen Elizabeth II turned up the heat even more, as some of her majesty’s high-profile subjects took aim at the series.
