A royal prince's bride. Her new boyfriend. A paparazzi chase. A horrific, possibly fatal crash. 

Sound familiar? If you ask us, Chuck (Ed Westwick) and Blair’s (Leighton Meester) car crash sounds an awful lot like crash that killed Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed back in 1997. 

Now, Gossip Girl often rips its stories from the headlines, or at least fromPage Six [Nate (Chace Crawford) is a blatant rip-off of Jared Kushner this season], but they've never before recreated the death of a revered icon in such detail. Did GG cross the line into bad taste?

On the one hand, ugh. Real people actually died in that car crash. It's pretty gutsy for GG use their deaths to ramp up the drama on a soap opera for teens. They could have easily made the parallels less blatant without losing the scene's impact. Simply delete the paparazzi element of the crash, and the Di issue wouldn't have been nearly as noticeable. Also: Does Diana not exist in Gossip Girl world? Surely all town car drivers must know to never drive princesses so fast.

On the other hand, Gossip Girl has always been about pushing boundaries and pushing buttons. Diana's tragedy happened over a decade ago. Fictionalizing such a huge event should be fair game by now. Plus, nothing about the Gossip Girl crash sequence was mean — nor did it in any way trivialize what happened to her.

Look, Gossip Girl, you're on thin ice with this one. We'll let it go. Just don't turn Chuck into a pop star and have his unscrupulous doctor kill him with an overdose, and we'll be good.