On November 16, 2023, the first part of the sixth season of “The Crown” arrived on Netflix, kicking off the hit series’ finale with four new episodes, scheduled to conclude on December 14 with the remaining six episodes. This first part is mainly dedicated to the last months of Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) before her tragic accident in Paris in 1997. However, at the end of the fourth and final episode, another person is remembered, whose name appears shortly after the credits. role the episode begins.
It can be read: “In Memoriam, Victoria Stable, 1955-2023”. Many viewers are probably wondering who Victoria Stable was and what she had to do with “The Crown” or even the British Royal Family. We provide the answer and explain what she major influence on the Netflix hit.
That was Victoria Stable
Victoria Stable, born in 1955, was an archive producer and spent many decades of her life working in the archive industry for films and series. She provided screenwriters, actors, directors and producers with archive material with which they shaped their projects. Their main focus was on productions based on true and historical facts With ‘The Crown’ she also ensured that the portrayal of the British royal family and the British government was as accurate as possible.
Last year she was still in the official one Podcast for the series “De Kroon” was a guest and presenter Edith Bowman explained in detail how she defines her work: “An archive producer is actually a very experienced film researcher. I am responsible for it Find everything that is copyrighted and not part of ‘The Crown’ series. So everything that we didn’t make ourselves, whether it’s video recordings or sound recordings. I only care about the moving material, not the still images.”
Victoria Stable helped Khalid Abdalla for his role Dodi Al-Fayed
She also helped actors in the series such as Khalid Abdalla to find rare archive material of Dodi Al-Fayed, whom he would play in the series from season 5: “There is so little material of Dodi [Al-Fayed]. I hadn’t seen any of him speak on camera yet. Khalid [Abdalla] then sent me a random photo of Dodi where you can see a news camera in the background. He was being interviewed somewhere and I ducked.
“Long before he met Diana, he was involved in a lawsuit in Toronto and so I was going through old copies of the fumbled. The day he left court and, I believe, gave only one witness statement, he was questioned. There were only five seconds of him speaking, but we found her.”
Victoria Stable was involved in all six seasons of “The Crown”.
Before Victoria Stable started working on the Netflix hit, the archive producer was involved in productions such as ‘Weekend World’, ‘Spitting Image’, ‘South Bank Show’ and a documentary about Diana entitled ‘Diana, 7 Days’, which was published Twenty years after Diana’s death in 2017.
Victoria Stable went on to work on all six seasons of “The Crown.” Shortly after filming of the final episode ended in spring 2023, the archive producer died at the age of 68.