Both the queen and Charles seem surprised by this choice. Diana picks one from the latter category: a 12-carat Ceylon sapphire surrounded by diamonds and set in white gold. "I mean, great fun, and bouncy and full of life and everything." Princess Diana Choosing Her Own Engagement RingĪt the beginning of episode 3, Prince Charles and Queen Elizabeth present Princess Diana with a selection of engagement rings to choose from, including pieces "passed down through the family" as well as those that are for sale. "I remember thinking what a very jolly and amusing and attractive 16-year-old she was," he said. In their engagement interview, Charles recalled meeting his future wife at 16. As heard in the documentary Diana: In Her Own Words, Diana confided on tape that she'd been consoling Charles over his uncle's death when he "leapt on me, practically."īy February 1981 Charles and Diana were engaged. However, according to Diana herself, this defining interaction actually happened in July 1980 when both parties were visiting a mutual friend, Philip de Pass.
At a lunch, she reportedly told a friend she wouldn't marry Charles "if he were the dustman or the King of England." A reporter happened to be sitting nearby and Lady Sarah's damning review of her beau made headlines.
Sarah, six years Diana's senior, dated Charles briefly in 1977, but it wasn't exactly a love connection. "We sort of met in a plowed field," Diana later recalled. Reports indicate that Charles and Diana met (when the former was 29, and the latter just 16), at a grouse shooting event at the Spencer family home, Althorp. I'm Cupid," she told The Guardian soon after the royal engagement was announced in 1981. While the show portrays Charles and Diana's introduction as coincidental, Sarah (now Lady Sarah McCorquodale) reportedly takes credit for the match. He first meets Diana at her home while waiting for his date, her eldest sister Sarah. When season 4 opens, Charles is courting a Spencer sister … but not the one you think. Emma Corrin as Princess Diana, The Crown season 4ĭes Willie Prince Charles’s Relationship With Princess Diana’s Sister, Lady Sarah McCorquodale
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