Prince Harry’s Nazi costume scandal to be part of ‘The Crown’

Prince Harry’s “biggest mistake” will get the royal treatment on “The Crown.”

The Netflix saga about the British royal family is stopping short of diving into the story of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in its upcoming final season — but it will still include at least one of Harry’s most notorious incidents.

Season 6 will feature the Duke of Sussex’s Nazi costume scandal. 

According to People, the show appeared to film scenes of the aftermath of Harry’s controversial choice to dress up as a Nazi solider, which happened in 2005. The prince, who was then 20, went to a costume party decked out in a Nazi outfit, complete with a swastika. 

Actor Luther Ford will play him on-screen, and portray the snapshot and tabloid fallout.

Immediately afterwards, Harry put out a statement in which he said that he was “very sorry if I caused any offense or embarrassment to anyone. It was a poor choice of costume, and I apologize.” 

In the years since, Harry, now 38, has said that he feels “ashamed.” In his “Harry & Meghan” Netflix docuseries, released in 2022, he said that it was, “Probably one of the biggest mistakes in my life. I felt so ashamed afterwards. All I wanted to do was make it right.” 

He stated that afterwards he spoke to the chief rabbi in London and a Holocaust survivor in Berlin. “I could’ve just ignored it and probably made the same mistakes over and over again in my life. But I learned from that.”

In his memoir, “Spare,” he also claimed that Prince William and Kate Middleton instigated the scandal, and “howled with laughter” when they saw him in the attire. 

“I phoned Willy and Kate, asked what they thought. Nazi uniform, they said,” Harry wrote in “Spare.” 

“I rented it, plus a silly mustache, and went back to the house. I tried it all on. They both howled. Worse than Willy’s leotard outfit! Way more ridiculous! Which, again, was the point,” he said.

One publishing source told Page Six, “It’s strange as you would think that Harry would take ownership of this and just move on and not drag his brother into it, but he makes it clear that he feels strongly about William’s role in the scandal.”

The final installment of “The Crown” will be the only season to air after the death of Queen Elizabeth.

It will stop short of including Meghan Markle, wife of Prince Harry. Showrunner Peter Morgan previously told the Hollywood Reporter, “I just think you get so much more interesting [with time]. Meghan and Harry are in the middle of their journey, and I don’t know what their journey is or how it will end…

“I’m much more comfortable writing about things that happened at least 20 years ago. I sort of have in my head a 20-year rule. That is enough time and enough distance to really understand something, to understand its role, to understand its position, to understand its relevance.”

Season 6 of “The Crown” will also cover Princess Diana’s death, and William and Kate’s early days as college students, played by Ed McVey, 23, and Meg Bellamy, 19.

A premiere date for “The Crown” Season 6 has not yet been announced.