I thought, you’re so lonely-you should be with somebody to look after you. “It was the most tragic thing I’ve ever seen. Diana's trusted driver-minder Colin Tebbutt flew to Paris at 6.30am, immediately after hearing about the princess' death. “You looked so sad when you walked up the aisle at Mountbatten’s funeral,” Diana told Charles, according to Brown’s biography-a statement Peter Morgan lifts for The Crown. Just hours after the horrific crash, Prince Charles quickly arranged a flight from Balmoral Castle in Aberdeen to France, joined by Diana's sisters, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes. When Diana found herself with Charles again, following a polo match near Cowdray Park, she intuited that the prince might benefit from tenderness. The summer before, Charles had suffered a devastating personal setback when his mentor, Lord Mountbatten (played on The Crown by Charles Dance), was killed when his fishing boat was blown up by the I.R.A.
The pickings in his age group and social circle were increasingly slim, and his longtime love, Camilla Parker Bowles, was married. As the heir to the throne, he was facing considerable pressure from his family to find a suitable (read: sweet-mannered and virginal) wife to settle down with, pronto. Much had changed for Charles in the prior three years. Charles's first visit to the exclusive Swiss vacation hot-spot was a decade prior, in 1978, on a trip with Princess Diana's sister, Sarah Spencer. I’ve met him at last!”)Ĭharles and Diana didn’t reunite until July 1980, when both attended a Sussex polo outing. In March of 1988, Prince Charles and Princess Diana visited Klosters, a high-end ski resort in Switzerland. Brown also notes that Diana was so thrilled by the meeting that she excitedly told her piano teacher, “I’ve met him. (Sarah reportedly reacted by telling Diana to get lost. Years later, Diana would recall additional details about her first encounter with Charles-like how the prince turned to her, not Sarah, for a tour of the Althorp photo gallery, according to Tina Brown’s biography The Diana Chronicles. The meeting seemed to have made more of an impression on Diana. (Charles-who was 29 compared to Diana’s 16-had been invited to the home for a shooting party.) The two met, instead, “in a plowed field” outside the stately home. There was no talk of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, for starters. While Charles and Diana’s first meeting did take place at the Spencer family home Althorp in 1977, while Charles was dating Sarah, the circumstances were slightly different. “She was obsessed with the idea of meeting you.”
Later, when Charles mentions to Sarah that he saw her kid sister, Sarah rolls her eyes. Still dressed as a “mad tree” for her school’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream-in costume as camouflage-the beguiling teenager can’t help but pull focus. It is 1977, and Prince Charles ( Josh O’Connor) has arrived at the Spencer family home to see Diana’s elder sister Sarah ( Isobel Eadie), in Season Four’s premiere “Gold Stick.” When Sarah is called away for a phone call, a sixteen-year-old Diana ( Emma Corrin) sees her opening-she coyly “sneaks” into the grand foyer, where the heir to the throne is waiting.
Princess Diana’s grand entrance on The Crown is a dramatic one.
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