This is how Princess Diana and Prince Charles actually met

Princess Diana and Prince Charles are iconic, and their story is one that has been heard time and time again. However, there might be more to it than you know.

Princess Diana and Prince Charles are iconic, and their story is one that has been heard time and time again.

However, with Lady Diana Spencer making her debut on The Crown in season four, some people are left wondering how she and Charles actually first met.

In the third season of the show, many were left wondering why she didn’t make her appearance before the season finale at the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977.

In November 1977, Charles was introduced to Diana during a grouse hunt at Althorpe, which is the Spencer family home. At the time, Charles was 29 years-old and there with Diana’s older sister Sarah, whom he briefly dated.

Many members of the royal family knew their relationship had cracks before marriage.

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Diana, who was 16 at the time, apparently told her friends that she would marry Prince Charles. She said that he was “the one man on the planet who is not allowed to divorce me,” according to The Diana Chronicles.

That was a younger Diana, whereas an older Di said to author Andrew Morton that when she first met the Prince of Wales, she though, “God what a sad man.”

Charles told The Telegraph in an interview in 1982 that when he first met the young 16-year-old Diana, “I remember thinking what a very jolly and amusing and attractive 16-year-old she was. I mean, great fun, and bouncy and full of life and everything.”

At the time Charles, who was nearly 30, was dating the teenager’s older sister.

Prince Charles with his fiance Lady Diana Spencer before their wedding.

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Clearly hitting it off, Charles invited Sarah and Diana to his 30th birthday in that same year.

So why did Charles eventually break up with Sarah and then to go on and wed her little sister?

Unfortunately, Lady Sarah make a grave mistake. She talked to the press about her relationship with the Prince.

According to news.com.au, when Sarah confessed what she had done to biographer Tina Brown, she told her coldly: “You’ve just done something extremely stupid.”

However, inviting young Diana to his 30th party then opened up the doors to many more invitations, which were orchestrated by Prince Phillip and the Queen Mother.

It was at one of those events that Diana said Charles “practically lept on me”, which was the start of history.

While it was a story that ended in a tragedy, Prince William and Prince Harry are the silver lining to the storm.

Prince Charles and Diana at home in Kensington Palace with their sons Prince William and Prince Harry.

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But it’s something that people are highly anticipating to be shown on the upcoming season of The Crown .

Starring British actress Emma Corrin as a young Diana Spencer, viewers will be treated to the storyline that captured the world.

Viewers will see young Di, who was a kindergarten teacher when she started dating Charles, marry him at the age of 20 in 1981.

The famous kiss on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, after the couple’s wedding ceremony.

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“I have been glued to the show since the first episode and to think I’m now joining this incredibly talented acting family is just surreal,” Corrin said in her casting announcement in 2019.

“Princess Diana was an icon, and her effect on the world remains profound and inspiring. To be given the chance to explore her through Peter Morgan’s writing is the most exceptional opportunity, and I will strive to do her justice!”

According to Corrin, who spoke to British Vogue about her new role, production has recreated Diana’s exact wedding dress for the event. Fans were impressed after a picture of the dress was shared on Instagram.

A first glimpse of Princess Diana’s wedding dress in The Crown.

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“We were filming the scene when you first see her in the wedding dress – I think it was Lancaster House in London – and I had a team of about 10 people helping me put it on, because it’s massive. I walked out and everyone went completely silent,” Corrin told Vogue.

In an press conference in August which was centred on season 4 of The Crown, Olivia Colman (Queen Elizabeth II), Tobias Menzies (Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), and Helena Bonham Carter (Princess Margaret) spoke about the bond between Charles and Diana – and that Margaret knew that it was “doomed” from the start.

“It becomes very clear before the marriage that there are big problems and it’s already compromised,” Bonham Carter told reporters. “And I think there was a point in that early script when we were all trying to encourage this marriage to happen for the good of the country … he needed to marry.”

So why did the marriage go ahead if distinguished members of the royal family saw the cracks appear so early on?

Menzies thinks it was Prince Phillip’s affection for Diana, and the duty that came with the engagement. He thinks that he definitely underestimated Diana.

“He is very beguiled by this beautiful young woman, and he doesn’t really register the turbulence that is clearly in her. And obviously, once that’s kind of unleashed within the fabric of the family, it ends up being very destructive to the family and, and obviously fatal to herself.”

Season four of The Crown debuts on Netflix November 15.