Princess Diana's Friend Jemima Khan Quits As Consultant On 'The Crown' Over Disrespectful Storyline

Jemima Khan, a consultant on the upcoming fifth season of Netflix's The Crown, has reportedly quit over the show's handling of Princess Diana. Speaking to The Sunday Times, via Us Weekly, Jemima—who was a close friend of Diana's—said "It was really important to me that the final years of my friend's life be portrayed accurately and with compassion, as has not always happened in the past."

She continued, "In 2019, [creator] Peter Morgan asked me to co-write on the fifth series of The Crown, particularly those episodes which concerned Princess Diana's last years before she died. After a great deal of thought, having never spoken publicly about any of this before, I decided to contribute."

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Jemima worked on "the outline and scripts from September 2020 until February 2021" but said that she's since pulled out—and requested that her contributions be removed.

"When our co-writing agreement was not honored, and when I realized that particular story line would not necessarily be told as respectfully or compassionately as I had hoped, I requested that all my contributions be removed from the series and I declined a credit," she said.

Netflix has released a statement about this turn of events, denying that Jemima was ever a writer on the show:

"Jemima Khan has been a friend, fan, and a vocal public supporter of The Crown since Season 1. She has been part of a wide network of well-informed and varied sources who have provided extensive background information to our writers and research team—providing context for the drama that is The Crown. She has never been contracted as a writer on the series."

The Crown's upcoming season is set to drop in November 2022.

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This article originally appeared on Cosmopolitan.com. Minor edits have been made by the Cosmo.ph editors.

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