"The Crown's" sixth and final season is almost here.

Season 6 of the hit Netflix series about the British royal family will air in two parts - with the first four episodes debuting on Nov. 16 and the remaining six episodes premiering on Dec. 14.

The upcoming season will cover events from 1997 through 2005, including Princess Diana's death in a 1997 car crash in Paris at age 36 and its aftermath.

Here are seven plot teasers you should know about "The Crown" Season 6:

1. Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed's car crash will not be shown

The first four episodes of "The Crown" Season 6 will focus on Princess Diana's final days, including the car crash that killed her, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and their chauffeur Henri Paul. Security consultant Trevor Rees-Jones was also in the car at the time but survived.

But Christian Schwochow, who directed three of the first four episodes, confirmed in an interview with Deadline last month that the fatal collision itself was not recreated for the series.

The filmmaker directed episode 2, titled "Two Photographs"; episode 3, titled "Dis-Moi-Oui," which tackles the accident; and episode 4, titled "Aftermath," of "The Crown" Season 6.

Netflix also said in a statement to The Sun earlier in October that "the exact moment of the crash impact will not be shown" in the drama.

But the trailer recently released by Netflix of Part 1 of "The Crown" Season 6 showed some of Diana and Dodi's final moments in the car, including one scene of them holding hands.

2. Diana's dead body will not appear in Season 6

Schwochow said they filmed shots of Diana, played by Elizabeth Debicki, in the Paris morgue following her death, but these scenes were never intended to be included in the final cut of Season 6.

"We did film Diana, but very respectfully - not in a big close-up," the director told Deadline.

But Schwochow said the series will show Dominic West, who plays Diana's former husband Prince Charles, at the hospital following the crash.

"It was very, very clear to us that we don't want to see her dead body. I actually think that it was not a discussion. Not even in the first version of the cut, we would ever see her body," he added.

3. Season 6 is filled with "moments of sadness and grief"

Schwochow told the outlet that they filmed Diana's final moments after the passing of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022.

"We all felt the conscious memory of people," the director explained.

He went on to share that "The Crown" Season 6 will feature "so many moments of sadness and grief" that made him break down in tears during filming.

"It's so incredibly intense to re-create these moments. Not only to re-create them but to create our truth, which is hopefully as truthful as you can get in fiction," Schwochow added.

4. Scenes of Diana and Dodi's final moments were based on real footage

The "Crown" production watched CCTV footage of Diana and her boyfriend Dodi, played by Khalid Abdalla, at the Ritz hotel in Paris, where they had dinner together moments before their fatal car crash.

According to Schwochow, they observed the "physicality" between the couple in the videos.

"We couldn't hear anything, but we could see how they touched, how they laughed," the filmmaker told Deadline. "And even though we knew she had been crying in the restaurant, we could really observe and see how much they felt at ease and how comfortable she was."

6. Season 6 will show Prince William and Prince Harry walking behind their mother Diana's coffin

The moment 15-year-old Prince William and 12-year-old Prince Harry walked side-by-side behind their mother Diana's coffin during her funeral procession was recreated for "The Crown" Season 6, with Rufus Kampa and Fflyn Edwards playing the younger versions of William and Harry.

While filming the scene, Schwochow said he asked Edwards to "take everything in but not to show his emotion."

"Fflyn is very attached to his emotions, so you capture him actively trying not to show his grief and sadness," the director explained to Deadline.

The show's movement coach, Polly Bennett, who worked with the two young actors, told Entertainment Weekly that she looked for "signals" rather than make assumptions about how the real-life William and Harry were feeling as she watched the footage of them walking behind their mother's coffin.

"The boys' suits being a little bit too big, they were sort of elevated to being a little bit older than they were, and that's a really big insight for those young actors to think, wear your big-boy suit. So the idea of 'wearing your big-boy suit' gave them that physicality and didn't involve 'you're really sad because your mum passed away.' You're turning it into something physical and being able to look after those young actors emotionally at the same time," she explained.

7. Season 6 won't include "Megxit"

Part 2 of "The Crown" Season 6 will jump forward in time and show William in college at St. Andrews, where he meets Kate Middleton.

Ed McVey and Meg Bellamy will play Prince William and Kate as university students, and Luther Ford will play Prince Harry when he's a teen.

Based on Netflix's synopsis of the season, which ends with William and Kate's courtship, Season 6 is unlikely to include the couple's marriage as well as Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle's decision to step back from their royal duties, which was dubbed "Megxit."

"The Crown" creator Peter Morgan said in an interview with Town & Country back in 2020 that he was relieved that the series won't cover recent events.

"The Meghan and Harry story is nowhere near over yet," he said. "And I'm happy that I'm never going to write it."

Schwochow also told Deadline that he doesn't think a drama series about Harry and Meghan's story is needed.

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