The Crown’s Season 6 Cast and Their Real-Life Counterparts

The Crown has already dramatized five decades of British royal history, beginning with Queen Elizabeth’s 1947 wedding to Prince Philip and ending season five with Princess Diana and Prince Charles’s much-publicized divorce. The sixth and final season of The Crown, which premieres its first part November 16 and its second December 14, may be the drama’s most controversial yet, given that episodes will reimagine events still somewhat fresh in viewers’ memories. Spanning 1997 to the 2000s, the final episodes will reimagine Diana’s death, Prince William’s college courtship of Kate Middleton, and, reportedly, another royal wedding. Here, we break down The Crown cast—with side-by-side photos of the actors and the real-life royals they depict in the drama’s most modern season.