Given that this season is expected to cover the royal family across the 1990s, it’s likely the troubled marriage and subsequent divorce of Prince Charles and Princess Diana will be at the forefront and, based on the short first look released by Netflix, that appears to be very much the case.

In the teaser released as part of its global fan event, Tudum 2022, we catch glimpses of Dominic West’s Prince Charles and Elizabeth Debicki’s Princess Diana preparing for seemingly separate TV interviews, alongside a voiceover that shares the statement from Buckingham Palace announcing their divorce. Shown through a series of tight close-ups of details that include Diana’s engagement ring and solemn expressions from both Charles and Diana, the atmosphere seems tense and ominous.

It’s thought to allude to Diana’s now famous and controversial Panorama interview with Martin Bashir in 1995, which is rumoured to occupy a full episode in itself. Prince Charles also found himself at the centre of a media storm after confessing to being unfaithful to Diana in a 1994 interview with Jonathan Dimbleby.

Netflix’s The Crown season 5 teaser hints at a battling Prince Charles and Princess Diana