The recently-released fourth season of Netflix’s The Crown seems to have broken the internet. Spanning the ’80s, it gives us our first look at Diana, the future Princess of Wales, but also of Camilla Parker Bowles, Prince Charles’s “one who got away.”
Far from being an impartial presentation of fact, The Crown chooses sides, placing itself firmly in Diana’s corner while painting Charles as something of a villain. This made us wonder – the show makes no claim to be a documentary, but how much of what it shows us is fact and how much is fiction? Well, we’ve got the answers.
[post_page_title]Fact check: The notorious Australia tour[/post_page_title]
In 1983, Charles and Diana embarked on a 40-day tour of Australia. According to The Crown, it tore their marriage apart. Charles is shown resentful of the way people embraced his wife and not him, while Diana has a meltdown and changes the whole schedule after learning she’d have to separate from an infant Prince William.
The first part’s reportedly true – Diana herself confirmed that Charles, the future king, was jealous of her building stardom. The second, however, isn’t – the plan was to have William along from the start and Diana embraced her new role as a royal.
