The Crown’s Emma Corrin and Josh O’Connor on memorable on-set moments and Princess Diana’s iconic llama sweater

Corrin also reveals her style takeaways from playing Princess Diana.

The highly anticipated fourth season of Netflix’s lavish must-see historical drama The Crown is dropping on the streaming service on November 15 and having been lucky enough to have a sneak peek at the season, this writer can attest that it is the most dazzling season yet.

While the first three seasons were incredible, the fourth season covers a period of time (from the late ‘70s until around 1990) in royal family history when one of the most memorable royal figures in recent times was introduced: Princess Diana.

To take on this iconic role, The Crown’s showrunner, Peter Morgan, cast a relatively unknown Emma Corrin as the People’s Princess, as Princess Diana was known, and it has proven a casting masterstroke. The likeness in the series of Corrin to her real-life counterpart is uncanny, even down to her mannerisms—including the shy head tilt Princess Diana was famous for. Over a Zoom interview, Corrin told Vogue she prepared for the role through research but also by using the scripts to create her own version of the princess: “[I] started out watching a lot [of] footage and a great documentary called In Her Own Words which is on Netflix and then… when I got the scripts it was brilliant because... I kind of realised that we’re in Peter’s world telling the story and there was a character there for me to create and it kind of gave me a lot of freedom to find out how I resonated with Diana. And then I was able to tailor the research that I did to be specific to the story we were telling.”