Is one slightly better than the other? You decide.īetter believe it - though it's likely some details were amplified for dramatic effect. However, another royal insider, Penny Junor, claims that although Charles did gift such a bracelet to Camilla, the initials actually stood for Girl Friday, meaning a reliable female assistant, and that Charles sent similar items to other women he'd been close to perviously, as a means of thanking them before embarking on life as a married man. Some say that the letters stood for Gladys and Fred, Camilla and Charles' nicknames for one another, and that Diana then realized her husband-to-be and ex-girlfriend were at the very least having an emotional affair. (The show opts to depict this moment as Diana discovering a drawing of the piece of jewelry rather than the bracelet itself). According to taped interviews biographer Andrew Morton conducted with the late Princess, Diana was in the office of one of Charles' members of staff when she opened a parcel to find a bracelet engraved with the initials G and F. The note goes on to remind the Prince of the importance of building his destiny with some "sweet and innocent well-tempered girl with no past who knows the rules and will follow the rules," and that this is his duty and "most important task." While we can't know for sure if such a specifically timed or themed letter ever existed, it's not too much of stretch to assume communication on that matter did take place between the two men, since Mountbatten was in frequent contact with his great nephew, offering advice on such things. "The choice of a woman was the issue around which the last Prince of Wales came to grief, and it's astonishing to me that 40 years after the abdication, you are making so little attempt to conceal your infatuation for another man's wife," writes Mountbatten, referencing Charles' ongoing relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, in a letter in episode. You can watch season four of The Crown on Netflix.In the season 4 premiere, right before his death, Lord Louis "Dickie" Mountbatten ( Charles Dance) pens a letter to his great-nephew/honorary great-grandson encouraging him to settle down. It didn’t go any further than that at the party.”ĭiana was a huge fan of dancing, and the “Uptown Girl” performance was entirely her idea. I think Diana thought, Just in case, I’ve got Wayne on my side. I’m going to keep my mouth closed on what it was like to be there. What fans can rely on though is Sleep’s own recollections of Charles and Diana at the afterparty for the gala. There is no documented evidence of how Charles reacted to Diana’s dance in private. The Princess and Sleep got a standing ovation and at least eight curtain calls. Diana did intend the dance to be a gift for Charles, but it was a Christmas gift and not a birthday gift as the moment is presented in the Netflix series.ĭiana brought the house down with her dance. Prince Charles’s birthday is November 14th, and the performance occurred at a Christmas gala in December of 1985. While Charles reportedly did respond cooly to the performance in real life as well, but the timeline the show presents isn’t quite right. Diana meant the dance to be given as a present for his birthday, but Charles is depicted being less than pleased with his surprise gift. Source: Shutterstock Source: ShutterstockĬharles is shown having a negative reaction to Diana’s dance in The Crown. There’s no video of the actual performance but there are photos. And she was on fire, she took it and embraced it as if she’d been doing it for hundreds of years.” “And I did these big jumps and things which they were applauding and I thought, you wait, you just wait, because nobody knew…And she walked out for eight counts and then stop! Looked at the audience beautifully and there was a gasp from the audience of 2.500 people…they were speechless.
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