--- title: Diana's Diving Board Photo Immortalized Her Loneliness description: The ominous photo of Princess Diana sitting alone on a diving board, recreated in The Crown's sixth season, became a melancholy symbol of loneliness. canonical: https://time.com/6333169/princess-diana-diving-board-photo-the-crown-season-6/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-11-16T08:21:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:42:50.110Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: How One Photo Immortalized Princess Diana's Loneliness og:description: An ominous photo of Princess Diana sitting alone on a diving board, recreated in The Crown's sixth season, became a melancholy symbol of loneliness. og:url: https://time.com/6333169/princess-diana-diving-board-photo-the-crown-season-6/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a5a37e0d83368aa/698a425a457a524cc3d68281/the-crown-princess-diana-03.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: the-crown-princess-diana-03 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How One Photo Immortalized Princess Diana's Loneliness twitter:description: An ominous photo of Princess Diana sitting alone on a diving board, recreated in The Crown's sixth season, became a melancholy symbol of loneliness. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a5a37e0d83368aa/698a425a457a524cc3d68281/the-crown-princess-diana-03.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How One Photo Immortalized Princess Diana's Loneliness > Sponsored content. 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An ominous photo of Princess Diana sitting alone on a diving board, recreated in The Crown's sixth season, became a melancholy symbol of loneliness._  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 16, 2023 8:21 AM UTC  Elizabeth Debicki in season 6 of The Crown Elizabeth Debicki in season 6 of The CrownNetflix  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 16, 2023 8:21 AM UTC Of the many photos of [Diana, Princess of Wales](https://time.com/6209937/princess-diana-legacy-royal-family/), one image has become iconic for capturing the unnerving loneliness she experienced during her life. The photo shows Diana in a candid moment alone, sitting on the end of a diving board. It's a picture that helped define the essence of the People's Princess—a glamorous outsider, the patron saint of isolation, a public figure who struggled to protect her personal life. It should come as no surprise that when Netflix announced [Season 6 of _The Crown_](https://time.com/6275116/the-crown-william-kate-middleton-photos-ending/), the first installment of which debuted on Nov. 16, the streamer shared the news by recreating the famed image of the princess, reimagining it with actor Elizabeth Debicki: Her back is to the camera, her chin protectively tucked into her shoulder in Diana's signature habit, her loneliness in full view even as so much as her is obscured.  Princess Diana sits on the edge of a diving board on Dodi Al Fayed's private yacht "Jonikal" in 1997. API/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images **Read more:** [_25 Years After Princess Diana's Death, She's Still Shaping the Royal Family_](https://time.com/6209937/princess-diana-legacy-royal-family/) _The Crown_ is hardly the first to pay homage to the photo—from the promotional poster for the [2013 Naomi Watts-fronted film _Diana_](https://ew.com/article/2013/09/24/diana-poster-premiere/) to the invitation to the [Off-White Spring/Summer 2018 fashion show](https://www.wmagazine.com/story/how-virgil-abloh-off-white-paid-tribute-princess-diana-paris), which was inspired by Princess Diana, the diving board photo has been reproduced, reappropriated, and referenced, looming large in the collective imagination, a tangible visual for the melancholy of Diana's life. Most recently, the musical artist SZA recreated the photo for the album artwork for her album, _SOS_, a decision she said she was drawn to because of "isolated" the princess appeared. ### More From TIME "Originally I was supposed to be on top of a shipping barge, but in the references that I pulled for that, I pulled the Diana reference,” SZA said in an interview with [_Hot 97_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9cCfTjx0Qo)_._ “Because I just loved how isolated she felt, and that was what I wanted to convey the most.” > [](https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1600284319934648320?lang=en) The image would be striking for its composition alone. Diana, clad in a turquoise one-piece bathing suit, perches, almost precariously, on the edge of the diving board of [Mohamed al-Fayed](https://time.com/6226938/the-crown-mohamed-al-fayed-dodi/)'s private yacht, with seemingly nothing but sea surrounding her. That the photo is a long shot taken by a paparazzo, six days ahead of her death, in the throes of [a media maelstrom that had erupted](https://time.com/4914324/princess-diana-anniversary-paparazzi-tabloid-media/) after tabloid pictures were published of her kissing al-Fayed's son, Dodi, reads in retrospect like ominous foreshadowing. **Read more**: [_How Princess Diana Changed Lives by Discussing Her Mental Health_](https://time.com/4918729/princess-diana-mental-health-legacy/) And while there's no shortage of photos that illustrate how alone the princess often felt in royal life—[her awkward Balmoral engagement photo with an aloof Charles](https://www.northantslive.news/news/diana-charles-story-behind-picture-5425936), the shot of her wearing [her black sheep sweater to a polo match](https://time.com/6311207/princess-diana-black-sheep-sweater-auction/), [the infamous picture of her solo visit to the Taj Mahal](https://time.com/4296741/royal-visit-taj-mahal-princess-diana-prince-william-kate-middleton/)—the image of Diana sitting solo on the diving board has become one of the most iconic images because it highlights the bittersweet isolation of Diana's life—a woman who could never be alone, but was no stranger to being lonely. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6333169/princess-diana-diving-board-photo-the-crown-season-6/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6333169/princess-diana-diving-board-photo-the-crown-season-6/"},"headline":"How One Photo Immortalized Princess Diana's Loneliness","datePublished":"2023-11-16T08:21:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:42:50.110Z","description":"An ominous photo of Princess Diana sitting alone on a diving board, recreated in The Crown's sixth season, became a melancholy symbol of loneliness.","url":"https://time.com/6333169/princess-diana-diving-board-photo-the-crown-season-6/","keywords":["Television","Explainer","culturepod"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a5a37e0d83368aa/698a425a457a524cc3d68281/the-crown-princess-diana-03.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a5a37e0d83368aa/698a425a457a524cc3d68281/the-crown-princess-diana-03.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"the-crown-princess-diana-03","caption":"Elizabeth Debicki in season 6 of The Crown","creditText":"Netflix","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/television/","name":"Television"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6333169/princess-diana-diving-board-photo-the-crown-season-6/","name":"How One Photo Immortalized Princess Diana's Loneliness"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Crown S6 | Official Trailer | Netflix","description":"An ominous photo of Princess Diana sitting alone on a diving board, recreated in The Crown's sixth season, became a melancholy symbol of loneliness.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vVCixEEc/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2023-11-16T15:29:29.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vVCixEEc.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/6333169/princess-diana-diving-board-photo-the-crown-season-6/","duration":"PT2M9S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/6333169/princess-diana-diving-board-photo-the-crown-season-6/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```