Change was within the air as The Crown wrapped up its penultimate season… and multiple relationship was altering together with it.
Season 5’s finale opens with Dodi al-Fayed telling his father Mohamed a couple of home he needs to purchase in Malibu. (He has to behave quick, “or I’ll lose it to Michael Douglas.”) He additionally needs to introduce his dad to his new girlfriend… and it’s not Diana. But. She’s busy phoning right into a call-in present to vote “no” on maintaining the British monarchy and cackling to herself. Elsewhere, Tony Blair and the Labour social gathering are poised to brush Parliament, and the British colony of Hong Kong is because of be handed again to the Chinese language, so the occasions, they’re a-changin’. The Queen sees the handover as undignified, so she sends Charles to signify her in Hong Kong whereas she heads to Canada.

In her first assembly with Blair, Elizabeth brings up the Britannia, however Blair has a greater concept: a model new yacht, privately financed that the federal government may lease. He suggests the title New Britain, which Charles likes, in fact. However Elizabeth would reasonably don’t have any yacht in any respect, so Charles’ journey to Hong Kong would be the Britannia‘s closing voyage. He’s even pressured to fly there in enterprise class (gasp!) whereas Blair and his cronies snicker it up in top quality. Again in London, Mohamed spots Diana sitting alone on the ballet and invitations her to affix him and his spouse for dinner. She confesses she’s “extra glum than ever” after the divorce and doesn’t need to be round for Camilla’s birthday, which is coming proper up. So Mohamed invitations her to convey her boys and are available to Saint-Tropez with him and his household. He’s even obtained a giant gleaming new yacht!

As Elizabeth takes a tragic closing tour of the Britannia earlier than it’s scrapped, Dodi proposes to Kelly, and Diana packs for her Saint-Tropez journey, with Mohamed having fun with life aboard his shiny new yacht.
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