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Furvah Shah
Nov 09, 2021
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Fans of Netflix’s The Crown can barely contain their excitement after the show recreated Princess Diana’s so-called ‘revenge dress’.
The show is currently filming its widely-anticipated season 5, which will feature Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki playing Diana during the tumultuous years of her marriage toPrince Charles.
Over the weekend, photos from the set of The Crown showed 31-year-old Elizabeth looking strikingly similar to the princess while wearing a recreation of the famous dress.
Fans took to Twitter to share their amazement:
my jaw is on the floor at these pictures of elizabeth debicki filming in diana’s revenge dress https://t.co/ErvPDb66KO— bethany (@bethany) 1636154555
the crown have captured princess diana’s revenge dress moment perfectly their resemblance is uncanny https://t.co/ZsewsYexJf— sammy (@sammy) 1636188921
THE REVENGE DRESS... ELIZABETH DEBICKI THE EMMY IS YOURS https://t.co/EUeNfRg6Hu— mary (@mary) 1636207764
Me getting ready to watching the new season of The Crown after seeing the new pictures of Elizabeth Debicki in the… https://t.co/1aQlL0uai8— Myra (@Myra) 1636183569
The Christina Stambolian dress, dubbed the ‘revenge dress’, was worn by Princess Diana in 1994 at a Vanity Fair fundraiser for the London’s Serpentine Gallery.
It was dubbed as so because Diana had worn it on the same evening that Prince Charles publicly confessed to his affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles in an ITV documentary.
She had actually owned the dress for three years before wearing it, but it was thought to be too risqué to wear.
The dress dominated headlines the morning after she wore it, leaving Prince Charles’ documentary with little coverage.
The next series of The Crown is set to be the most dramatic yet as it follows the rocky relationship and divorce of Diana and Charles.
Season 5 of The Crown is set to be released in November 2022.