The upcoming sixth and final season of The Crown reportedly features a scene with Princess Diana in an open coffin.
The new run of episodes includes the events surrounding Diana's tragic death in a Paris car crash in 1997 and a report in The Sun suggests that producers have not held back with their dramatisation.
The newspaper says that actress Elizabeth Debicki was required to portray Diana post mortem in a coffin, while a previous scene shows medics in a "blood-drenched hospital theatre" trying to save her life.
A source said: "They actually made Elizabeth climb into a coffin and play dead as Diana. Viewers will see a French priest administering the last rites for Diana as she is pronounced deceased.
"Prince Charles - played by Dominic West - enters the room and is in floods of tears. In his hysteria he notices that Diana is missing an earring. It is all he can focus on as grief envelops him.
"Charles tells French officials, 'You've got to find that earring. She loved that earring,' in terribly upsetting scenes.
"Diana's two sisters then join Charles and there is wailing and more tears around the dead body in the open coffin.
"Princes William and Harry never saw their mother dead in a coffin and they shouldn't have to watch this. Nor should the British public.
"The bosses went way over the top to chase ratings. Everyone was very uncomfortable doing the shoot. It is obscene and should be banned from broadcast."
The final season is due to be released on Netflix in November 2023.
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