TheCrown continues to “tilt the Diana-Charles dynamic strongly in [Diana’s] favor,” says royal expert Sally Bedell Smith.
accused of making nuisance phone calls to Hoare’s family home over the course of 15 months. Similarly, Bedell Smith notes that—while’s new season recreated the “Tampongate” phone call down to verbatim lines from the actual transcript—it did not reference the Squidgygate tape, the call between Diana and Gilbey’s Gin heirthat was leaked in 1992. During the call, Gilbey repeatedly referred to the princess as “Squidge” or “Squidgy.” Per“Diana’s conversation is more or less about herself.
Reflecting on season five’s treatment of Charles versus Diana, Bedell Smith concludes, “the Diana mythology seems to be more robust than ever.” She adds, “Peter Morgan is extremely skilled at weaving together well-researched historical details with his fiction . For most viewers it is impossible to disentangle, and his fantasies become the received reality…. Even when he has transcripts from real life, he invents extravagantly.
“The Way Ahead group began in 1994 for members of the royal family to meet twice a year and coordinate their diaries. It only began to focus on widening the monarchy’s appeal to young people and be more approachable after the death of Diana,” Bedell Smith explains. “The impetus was completely from the queen and Prince Philip, who understood that they should apply some lessons from the Diana era. They made a lot of sensible changes as a result, defined by the queen as ‘imperceptible evolution.
The biographer also notes that Princess Diana was not sitting lonely in her Kensington Palace apartment the evening that Charles’s Jonathan Dimbleby interview aired—she was too busy making waves with her “
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