Waity Katie No More: ‘The Crown’ Announces Season 6 Casting for Prince William and Kate Middleton Months Before Season 5 Premiere

We haven’t even gotten The Crown Season 5 yet, but Netflix is already looking toward the future, as the streamer announced today who would be taking on the roles of Prince William and Kate Middleton in the show’s sixth season.

According to Variety, 16-year-old Rufus Kampa and 21-year-old Ed McVey have been cast to play the prince. Meanwhile, Meg Bellamy will step into the role of Waity Katie herself, marking the trio’s professional screen debut. They are set to go into production for the show’s final season this fall.

As for when The Crown Season 5 will debut, we won’t be waiting much longer as it’s slated to hit Netflix this November, nearly two years after its fourth season first aired.

Plus, an entirely new cast will be introduced (nothing unfamiliar to The Crown universe). Imelda Staunton will step in for Olivia Coleman as Queen Elizabeth, Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip, Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret, Dominic West as Prince Charles, Elizabeth Debicki is taking over for Emma Corrin as Princess Diana, and Olivia Williams will be Camilla Parker Bowles.

Judging by the casting, Season 5 will likely take place during the 1990s and hone in on Princess Diana and Prince Charles’ infamous breakup. Debicki was even pictured last year sporting the princess’ iconic “revenge dress” that she wore to the 1994 Vanity Fair dinner.

It’s also likely the series will cover Diana’s death, as Variety previously reported that Khalid Abdalla would be portraying her boyfriend, Dodi al Fayed, who died alongside her in the car crash. This could even span into Season 6 as Kampa, who is playing a teenage William, is around the same age the prince was when his mother died.

In January 2020, creator Peter Morgan told Deadline that Season 5 would be its last, saying, “At the outset, I had imagined The Crown running for six seasons, but now that we have begun work on the stories for Season 5, it has become clear to me that this is the perfect time and place to stop.”

However, in July of the same year, Morgan reversed his decision, telling Deadline, “As we started to discuss the storylines for Series 5, it soon became clear that in order to do justice to the richness and complexity of the story, we should go back to the original plan and do six seasons.”

He continued, “To be clear, Series 6 will not bring us any closer to present day — it will simply enable us to cover the same period in greater detail.”

The Crown Season 5 will premiere on Netflix this November.