The Crown’s Diana actress made to lie in open coffin and pretend to be dead in shocking Netflix scenes

DIANA actress Elizabeth Debicki was made to lie in a coffin so viewers of The Crown see the princess dead in the open casket.

And in another shocking scene, medics who tried to save her are seen in a blood-drenched hospital theatre’.

Disgusted crew members were appalled at the insensitive, ratings-chasing script for the next series of the Netflix drama.

Stars in the show fear princes William and Harry will be ripped apart by scenes around their mother’s final moments before her fatal Paris car crash in 1997.

The princes will also be seen as children following her coffin at her funeral, which will feature in season six of the controversial show.

Horrified onlookers on set yesterday told The Sun they hope public fury will force bosses to axe the “distressing” scenes.

One said: “They actually made Elizabeth climb into a coffin and play dead as Diana. Viewers will see a French priest administering the last rites for Diana as she is pronounced deceased.

“Prince Charles — played by Dominic West — enters the room and is in floods of tears. In his hysteria he notices that Diana is missing an earring. It is all he can focus on as grief envelops him.

“Charles tells French officials, ‘You’ve got to find that earring. She loved that earring,’ in terribly upsetting scenes.

“Diana’s two sisters then join Charles and there is wailing and more tears around the dead body in the open coffin.

'It is obscene'

“Princes William and Harry never saw their mother dead in a coffin and they shouldn’t have to watch this. Nor should the British public.

"The bosses went way over the top to chase ratings. Everyone was very uncomfortable doing the shoot. It is obscene and should be banned from broadcast.”

Those present also described the enactment of fraught scenes in a Paris hospital theatre.

One said: “Viewers see her lying on a table with medics frantically surrounding her.

“They hired real surgeons for the scenes. Nurses are also seen around the lifeless body. There is blood everywhere — on the surgeons’ gowns and gloves, and on the door.”

This is sick, sick, sick. Can they get any lower?

Simone Simmonds, a friend of Diana’s

The witness added: “There were conversations on set between cast members visibly upset at what they were being asked to do.

“Many believe a fuss must be made to protect Wills and Harry in particular from more upset.”

The Crown has attracted controversy throughout its five series so far. The latest has been criticised for blurring fact and fiction.

Netflix insisted the Diana death scenes were being handled with the “utmost respect and care” but declined to comment further.

Simone Simmonds, a friend of Diana’s, said: “This is sick, sick, sick. Can they get any lower?.

“At this rate, why don’t they just go and dig up her grave.

“These scenes aren’t entertainment, it‘s just ghoulish.”

Ken Wharfe, Diana’s former bodyguard, said William will find the scenes “repulsive” and Charles will be “appalled”.

A spokesman for the Prince of Wales declined to comment.