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

[post_page_title]’A bit chubby, aren’t we?'[/post_page_title]

Heartbreakingly, postpartum depression wasn’t the only disorder Diana was suffering from. The week after they got engaged, she remembered Charles grabbing her waist and saying, “Oh, a bit chubby here, aren’t we?” Playful or not, she was devastated.

‘A bit chubby, aren’t we?’

Coupled with the pressures of public scrutiny and her husband’s relationship with Camilla, she developed an eating disorder. It would take her nearly a decade to overcome it. Nevertheless, she claimed she lost five and a half inches in her waistline between the engagement and the wedding. “I had shrunk to nothing,” she said.

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