Fact Check: What ‘The Crown’ Got Right And What They Didn’t About Diana

[post_page_title]Wedding day bliss?[/post_page_title]

On July 29, 1981, the big day had finally arrived. With 3,500 people in attendance and 750 million watching around the world, Diana Spencer became the Princess of Wales – and Charles’s wife.

Wedding day bliss?

The 600,000 or so people who gathered outside St. Paul’s Cathedral hoping to catch a glimpse of this fairytale couple were completely in the dark as to the cracks that had already started to appear in this seemingly perfect relationship. “He was going to look after me,” Diana added bitterly. “Well, was I wrong on that assumption.”

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