![]() ![]() ![]() It is not known as to whether Charles and Diana had any time together after their divorce was finalised in August 1996, and although their paths would undoubtedly have crossed during that final year, there is no record of an amicable and friendly conversation of this nature taking place had there been, it would almost certainly have been leaked to the newspapers, or to Kay. The briefing to Kay is accurate, but the rest is pure fantasy. But the truce is shattered by Diana briefing “her favourite journalist” (ie Richard Kay) at the Daily Mail that Charles subsequently spent the weekend alone with Camilla instead of with the boys. ![]() Diana refers to Charles as “the friend of her dreams”. He says warmly “I’m so proud of you”, before commenting “even though we weren’t brilliant at being married, can we be brilliant at ‘all this’?,’ referencing their separation and their sons. In a scene halfway through the episode, Charles and Diana have an amiable conversation about her forthcoming trip to Bosnia while he is collecting the boys. Yet there was certainly disquiet on all sides about the handsome, slightly shady playboy – and even more about his buccaneering and disreputable father. William, meanwhile, is shown to be hostile towards Dodi, who he describes as “weird”.Īlthough the Royal family have never commented publicly about the relationship between Dodi and Diana, Tony Blair’s comment in A Journey that Dodi’s relationship with Diana was “a problem” can be seen as representative of their wider opinion, so too the Princess’s former butler Paul Burrell’s remarks in 2007 that he was unconvinced that she was in love with Dodi, repeating her comments that “I need marriage like a rash”. In the episode, the Queen’s private secretary, Robert Fellowes, while allowing that it was Diana’s right “as a private citizen and a divorced woman” to have relationships with whomever she chooses, suggests that the Princess of Wales might be used as “leverage” in Mohamed al-Fayed’s bid for British citizenship. Shortly before Dodi’s death, Fisher - who has claimed they had set August 9 as their wedding day - sued him for loss of earnings, with her attorney Gloria Allred saying: “Mr Fayed needs to take responsibility for the woman that he ‘left at the altar’ and treated with such total disrespect.” The show suggests Dodi and Fisher are three weeks out from their wedding day, but during his lifetime Dodi’s spokesman denied that he was engaged to Fisher, although he admitted knowing her and giving her presents. As presented in the show, al-Fayed ignored his son’s engagement to the model Kelly Fisher – who is shown, humiliatingly, visiting her fiancé in France and being isolated on a smaller, if still lavish, yacht. As presented in the episode, al-Fayed flew out the Princess and her sons to his yacht in Saint Tropez, ostensibly so that she could relax (and avoid Camilla’s party), but in reality to create what he calls a “business opportunity” for his son by romancing Diana. Mohamed al-Fayed’s involvement in the Dodi and Diana romance has been much-debated. Episode one: Persona Non Grata Did Princess Diana and Prince William visit the Blairs at Chequers on 6 July 1997? Beginning with the show’s premiere episode, Persona Non Grata, we’ve fact-checked the inventions, the exaggerations and the downright lies – as well as, in the interests of balance, observing where the show’s got it right. Yet in the first four episodes of the new series of The Crown, there are numerous moments, from the trivial to the major, that will raise an eyebrow. The show’s historical adviser, Annie Sulzberger, who has a team of five (presumably underemployed) researchers, has remarked of the invented moments of artistic licence: “These are not inaccuracies… they were decisions to deviate from history.” If you say so. After the outraged response to many of the (at times egregious) factual inaccuracies in the fifth series of The Crown – “nonsense on stilts” and “an inaccurate and hurtful account of history” were two typical observations – the series has returned for its sixth and final season in unabashed form. ![]()
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