The Crown dishes on behind-the-throne drama featuring members of the British royal family, and one royal couple cooked up more drama than most: Diana and Charles. But what was Diana and Charles’s relationship really like? How much did The Crown get right, and how do the details provided in the show shed new light on the royal couple’s troubled relationship?
Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, began dating Lady Diana Spencer in 1980. Charles asked Diana to marry him in early 1981 after only a handful of dates. The world watched as Prince Charles and Princess Diana got married, had children, and eventually fell out in a painfully public separation.
The Crown shares a number of facts about Charles and Diana’s relationship. Vote up the ones you didn’t know about.