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

[post_page_title]A queen of people’s hearts[/post_page_title]

In a sense, there was a kind of self-fulfilling prophesy at play here. While she was separated but still formally married to Charles, Diana was asked in the aforementioned Bashir interview whether she thought she would ever be queen. Diana replied plainly that she did not.

A queen of people’s hearts

The establishment that she married into, she explained, deemed her a non-starter because of who she was. “I’d like to be a queen of people’s hearts, in people’s hearts, but I don’t see myself being Queen of this country,” she suggested. In the final tally, she was proven right on both accounts.

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