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.
Dodi brings his actress girlfriend Kelly Fisher to London on a non-public jet to satisfy Mohamed, however he’s unimpressed: “Isn’t it sufficient simply to f–okay her?” (They converse in Arabic, leaving Kelly and Mohamed’s spouse out of the loop.) Mohamed additionally chides Dodi for making him bankroll a string of Hollywood flops, telling him, “The one factor you’ve gotten a expertise for is girls.” He nonetheless thinks Dodi may hit “the jackpot” there, although. (Hmmm.) Tony Blair and the Labour social gathering win massive on election evening, and John Main gracefully steps apart, telling Elizabeth he’ll do what he can to avoid wasting the Britannia, although Labour is certain and decided to decommission her. (Metaphor alert!)
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!
In Hong Kong, Charles makes a speech commemorating the handover to the Chinese language — and pulls Tony Blair apart for a non-public chat afterwards. Blair apologizes in regards to the Britannia, however Charles waves that off: “There’s no level clinging to the previous.” Actually, he thinks “the royal household wants an analogous renovation.” He’s chafing on the restraints his household has placed on him, particularly about remarriage. Elizabeth catches wind of this and confronts her son, reiterating that she doesn’t approve of him marrying Camilla. She pulls rank as sovereign… “which can sooner or later be me,” Charles notes. “In the future, however not but,” Elizabeth counters. He calls her values old school and worries that “the world will transfer on, and people who come after you can be left with nothing.”
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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