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The Crown creator compares Princess Diana and the Duchess of Sussex

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From Harper's BAZAAR

The Crown creator Peter Morgan says that there are clear comparisons between Duchess of Sussex and Diana, Princess of Wales. He says that it's easy to see similarities in the way that the two adjusted to royal life.

Season four of the popular Netflix show airs on 15 November and sees Emma Corrin take on the role of the late princess.

"When you see a beautiful young princess struggling to find love and acceptance within the family, the parallels are obvious and the parallels write themselves,” he told Vanity Fair, adding that any desire to shift tradition within the royal family will inevitably become tense for both parties.

“If you come into [the royal family] with any agenda for yourself—or if you come in and connect with the public in a way that threatens to change the way that the royal family connects with the public—that’s something that doesn’t particularly sit comfortably for either side."

Morgan maintains that the only way to survive as a royal is to adhere to confining protocol and blend into the background. Standing out or trying to do things differently, he says, will only make your life difficult.

"Really, the only version of events that works is if somebody comes in and becomes invisible, and just sort of knuckles down to a lifetime of agreeable supplicancy to the duties of the crown," he said. "Diana struggled to fit in with the institution in a way that it’s impossible not to see the parallels with Meghan Markle and Harry. So the story feels both incredibly vivid historically, but also it really shines a lot of lights on where we are now.”

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