The Crown
In the 4th season of The Crown Princess Diana finally becomes a protagonist. We briefly get to know her childhood and her overall life before she met Charles. Their wedding appears in the third episode of the season, titled ’Fairytale’.
Charles Spencer, Princess Diana’s brother stated some facts and his worries about the show during an appearance on Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh:
"You can hang it on fact, but the bits in between are not fact. ... a lot of conjecture and a lot of invention. … The worry for me is that people see a program like that and they forget that it is fiction. ... They assume, especially foreigners, I find Americans tell me they have watched The Crown as if they have taken a history lesson. Well, they haven't."
This quote perfectly expresses the show’s fictional part. We gathered some facts about the 4th season which are based on a script:
I. The part where Diana and Charles first met while he was dating Sarah, Diana’s sister is true, but the part where Diana was hiding, covered in leaves was not.
II. The scene where Diana walked up to Charles to tell him how sorry she was because of the death of Muntbatten did happen in real life. The false part of it is: it didn’t take place on the street, but in a mutual friend’s house in England. According to Tatler, she also said, "He leapt upon me and started kissing me and I thought, 'Urgh, this is not what people do.”
III. Diana’s habit of roller-skating through the royal hallways is doubtable. Some say that the roller-skating was indeed true, but most people doubt it. Would the Queen approve of such a behaviour in her palace?
IV. Diana’s famous wedding gown wasn’t overall copied, however some parts of it like the bows, the lace are accurate. One mistake the creators made was the tiara. Originally Diana wore her own family’s Spencer tiara but the one used in the series looks the opposite. It’s enormous and sprawling, it lacks the elegant simplicity. Some even said it resembles the Burger King crown.
+1 fact from the series that was true:
Princess Diana’s bulimia. She openly talks about her struggles in an interview given to BBC1.
She talks about how the royals saw the sickness as the cause of their marriages’ problems, not as one the symptoms. Some even said she was wasting food. They did not consider the pressure, the paparazzis and the Prince’s love for another woman as the problem. In their eyes it was only her.
You can read the whole interview here.
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