Princess diana was an icon and her effect on the world remains profound and inspiring said british actress emma corrin who plays the royal.

The crown actress diana. The crown will revisit the collapse of princess diana and prince charles marriage as well as her death in a car crash in paris in 1997. Elizabeth debicki will play princess diana in the final. Emma corrin the actress who plays diana looks familiarly and eerily vulnerable when she is first seen in the dress on the crown the scene was filmed in a re creation of a room within.