While the show depicts real events that actually happened,The Crowntakes alotof creative license.
“The rules of historical drama are different,” he wrote, citing Shakespeare’sMacbethas an example.
“What you see is both invented and true.”
As a result,The Crowncan sometimes diverge wildly from what actually took place.
For concrete examples, read on to discover the real detailsThe Crownleft out of the story.
As Fagan toldThe Independentin 2012, he and the Queen didn’t talk much.
As for Fagan’s actual motives, they’re somewhat murky.
“Two years later I was still coming down,” he revealed.
However, there’s no evidence to suggest that happened.
According to Spencer (now Lady Sarah McCorquodale), the actual meeting wasn’t as coincidental asThe Crownsuggests.
“I introduced them.
I’m Cupid,” she toldThe Guardiansoon after the couple’s engagement.
“We sort of met in a plowed field,” Diana recalled in theirengagement interview.
During that same interview, Prince Charles sharedhis cringeworthy first impressionof his future bride.
“I mean, great fun, and bouncy and full of life and everything.”
“The next minute he leapt on me, practically,” she said.
“It was strange.
But is the so-called test and the loopy"ibble dibble"drinking game actually for real?
Well, that depends on who’s asked.
However, royal historian Hugo Vickers disputed that.
“Of course the Balmoral Test doesn’t exist,” he toldInsider.
Did that really take place?
ActressEmma Corrin, who plays Diana, believes that it absolutely did.
“I think she [really] did do that,” Corrin toldSky News.
Corrin’s belief is backed up byThe Crownproducer Oona O’Beirn.
“It’s true!”
she toldVogueof Diana’s roller-skating.
It’s hard to do on some of those carpets.”
The roller-skating scene, added O’Beirn, “reminds you that Diana was only 19 at that time.”
AsHarper’s Bazaarrecalled, that performance happened for real.
This also happened, but details are sketchy.
The show’s composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, was there to oversee her performance."
While the season includes Princess Anne discussing her unhappy marriage,The Crownskippedherbig controversy.
In the wake of the scandal, Princess Anne and her husband divorced in 1992.
The letters marked the first time the notoriously nosy British press learned of Princess Anne’s affair.
However, her comings and goings from Laurence’s home were common knowledge among his neighbors.
So why was the wedding, watched by750 million peopleworldwide, not featured in the series?
Emma Corrin, who plays Diana, offered an explanation.
“We never recreate things just for the sake of recreating them,” she toldThe Hollywood Reporter.
However, one thing the series doesn’t show is that she’d begun harming herself.
“I got terribly, terribly thin,” she revealed.
“People started commenting: ‘Your bones are showing.’
By October, I was in a very bad way.
I was so depressed, and I was trying to cut my wrists with razor blades.”
In her 1995 interview with Martin Bashir for BBC1’sPanorama, Diana confirmed how deeply she’d sunk into depression.
“I didn’t like myself,” she explained.
“I was ashamed because I couldn’t cope with the pressures.”
While Thatcher managed to escape the explosion, the blast left five dead and 32 injured.
The IRA claimed responsibility for the attack, and vowed it would not be their final attempt.
“You will have to be lucky always.
Give Ireland peace and there will be no more war.”
In season 2, Buckingham Palace was graced bya visit from John F. Kennedy(Michael C. Hall).
This makes even less sense when considering how closely aligned Reagan and Thatcher came to become during that era.
While the Duke of Windsordied in 1972, his widow outlived him by more than a decade.
Miraculously, the disguised princess was smuggled into the jam-packed bar undetected.
They had a drink and then beat a retreat before she could be discovered.
Princess Diana herself, however, contended her grandmother held the opposite view.
“I don’t think it will suit you.”
