14. The Meeting With Prince Charles Was Different Than What You Saw on TV
If you’ve seen Season 4 of The Crown, you’ll remember that Prince Charles was dating Sarah Spencer, Diana’s older sister while he was secretly seeing Camilla Parker Bowles. He meets Diana while she is dressed in a costume for her school performance of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In reality, that may not have actually happened. Prince Charles said that he remembered meeting the 16-year old Diana at Park House in Norfolk, and she stood out to him because of her bubbly and cheerful personality.
In The Crown Season 4, we see the now 18-year old Diana approach Charle’s car to give her sympathies over the death of Charle’s mentor, Lord Mountbatten. The true story is a bit less chaste. In reality, Diana gave Charles her condolences at a mutual friend’s house in Sussex. This was enough for Charles to read into it completely. Diana said that Charlies immediately started kissing her, and they began a full-on “snogging” session. She thought, “This is not what people do!” But who can say “no” to a prince?