PRINCESS Diana’s pals have slammed Netflix’s The Crown after they were spotted filming the moments leading up to her death.
Witnesses say Netflix crews were filming haunting scenes showing Di, played by Elizabeth Debicki, in a black Mercedes just 100 yards from the Alma tunnel, Paris – where Di was killed in a car crash 25 years ago.
A scene from the upcoming season of The Crown pictured during filming yesterday
Netflix bosses have been branded ‘insensitive’ for recreating Princess Diana’s final hours
Diana — played by Elizabeth Debicki — will be shown in a limo before her horrific crash in a Paris tunnel
Netflix has insisted that the “exact moment” of the crash will not be shown in the show – but royal fans and friends are up in arms over the scenes.
Debbie Frank, who was Diana’s astrologer, told the Mail that it will be ”terrible” for William and Harry to see a recreation of their mother’s death.
She said: “It’s obviously terrible for Diana’s children to have to see that again. It’s insensitive.
“I feel Diana’s death and the crash was the biggest shock our generation. It had such a huge impact across the national psyche.
“I guess the makers of The Crown feel they are entitled to show a re-enactment of scenes leading up to her death and that it has dramatic impact. But relatives would think otherwise.”
It comes after another close friend Simone Simmons told The Celeb Report that the hit drama risks forcing William and Harry to recall “the most painful time” of their lives.
She said: “These are cruel, sadistic and wicked people to recreate these moments. They are the lowest of the low.
“They are rewriting history as they go along and that’s what makes me very angry.
“Netflix are deliberately reviving the most painful time in the boys’ lives.
“It’s forcing them to relive the pain, agony, and psychological torment they suffered when their mother died.
“I think it’s disgusting and sick. Why are they setting out to upset William and Harry?
“The makers of this programme do not care about the heir to the throne and everything he has been through.
“Why do these callous, insensitive people feel the need to recreate that horrible day?
“They are going out of their way to hurt the Royal Family.”
The Crown has already been criticised for blending fact with fiction — and for a storyline showing Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip pursuing an affair with younger peeress Penny Knatchbull.
Stage and screen veteran Dame Judi Dench, 87, last week blasted the big budget drama for being “inaccurate and hurtful” and for its “crude sensationalism”.
In a letter to The Times, she called in vain for a factual disclaimer be slapped on every episode “as a mark of respect” to the late Queen.
She wrote: “The closer the drama comes to our present times, the more freely it seems willing to blur the lines between historical accuracy and crude sensationalism.
