Photo by NetflixĪsked the same question, Prince Charles said: “I remember thinking, what a very jolly and amusing and attractive 16-year-old she was. Prince Charles (Josh O’Connor) and Princess Diana (Emma Corrin) during the scene of an interview following the announcement of their engagement in season four of The Crown. What did she think of him? “Pretty amazing,” Diana said. Prince Charles came to stay as a friend of my sister Sarah’s for a shoot and so we met in a plowed field,” she said. And Diana herself described their first meeting in an interview on the day the couple announced their engagement on Feb 24, 1981. (She later told a journalist she didn’t love the prince and “wouldn’t marry anyone I didn’t love, whether he were the dustman or the King of England.”) And Charles did meet Diana at Althorp - but there has never been any report of a “mad tree.”Ĭharles was at Althorp in November 1977 for a grouse hunt. So, did any of this happen? The Crown does get a few things right. Princess Diana and Prince Charles in a file photo. The scene ends with Diana watching Charles and Sarah ride away on horseback through an upstairs window. “She was obsessed with the idea of meeting you…. I told her to leave us alone,” Sarah says. Prince Charles promises to keep her secret, but, of course, the first thing he does is tell Sarah how he has just met her sister, who is six years younger. “Well, you know, by being a mad tree,” she says before dashing away. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. She wanted everything to be just perfect. “I’m Sarah’s younger sister by the way,” she says peering out at him from behind a green Venetian-style mask. Fact or Fiction: What did 'The Crown' get right in season three?.The Crown season four review: Come for Princess Diana, stay for Margaret Thatcher.All the while, Diana is dashing between shrubbery as she inches closer to Prince Charles. Prince Charles tells her “I haven’t seen a thing,” and then remarks, “It’s quite a costume,” sparking a discussion about their mutual love for Shakespeare’s play. “Sorry, I’m not here,” she says, adding that she was instructed to “remain out of sight,” but there is no other way to get to “that room over there.” When Sarah is called away, leaving Charles alone in the grand entrance of the home, out pops a 16-year-old Diana, played by Emma Corrin. In the scene, Prince Charles, played by Josh O’Connor, has called on the Spencer family’s ancestral estate, Althorp, but he has another love interest at the time, Diana’s sister Sarah.
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