How The Crown season 3 sets up Princess Diana's role in season 4 The Princess of Wales has almost arrived.
Note: contains spoilers for The Crown season 3.
The Crown returned to Netflix on Sunday (November 17), marking the show's very first outing with its brand new cast.
Olivia Colman took the mantle from Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II, and Tobias Menzies stepped into the shoes of her husband Prince Philip.
Also making their debut appearances for season three were Josh O'Connor (who dazzles as Prince Charles), Helena Bonham Carter (Princess Margaret), Charles Dance (Lord Mountbatten), Marion Bailey (the Queen Mother), Emerald Fennell (a young Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall) and last – but certainly by no means least – Erin Doherty as a scene-stealing Princess Anne.
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But where, you may ask, was Princess Diana?
Filming for The Crown season four has been going on for a while now, and as a result there have been plenty of pictures surfacing that drop some pretty big hints at what's to come. This included a very first look at Emma Corrin in her role as the late Diana, Princess of Wales, leading many to believe that she would be appearing in the third instalment.
If you have already made it through the ten new episodes, you'll know that (among other historical moments such as the Aberfan disaster and the moon landing of '69) the focus for Prince Charles is very much on his introduction to his role of Prince of Wales – a title that was given in 1958 and confirmed in his 1969 investiture – and his internal battle with the role of heir to the throne.
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Romantically, he only has eyes for one woman as far as The Crown's third season is concerned, and that's Camilla Shand, who he first meets at a polo match. The Crown's third run charts the circumstances of their early relationship before they each ended up marrying other people.
The Crown's narrative depicts a messy love triangle-style situation.
Prince Charles and Camilla first crossed paths while she was in an 'off' stage of an ongoing on/off relationship with military man Andrew Parker Bowles. To make things even more complicated, Andrew also dated Princess Anne (yes, in case it isn't immediately obvious, that's Prince Charles's younger sister). In the show, this seemed to overlap timing-wise and caused quite the air of scandal within the royal household.
"We need to take it seriously. I think he's really fallen in love," the Queen (Colman) at one point tells her husband (Menzies), although Prince Philip pooh-poohs the idea by making a sweeping statement that "you don't love a girl like Camilla Shand, she's just a bit of fun and a welcome distraction from the rigours of the Navy".
We'll put the unsavoury undertones of that statement to one side for today, but it's fair to say that this indicates that many didn't see Charles's infatuation with Camilla as having much of a future.
The series depicts romantic strolls in the countryside for the young couple, and includes a number of intense phone calls between them while Charles was away training.
"What we have is special," the Prince tells his lady at one point, while Camilla is seen on the receiving end of the phone with Andrew hovering around in the background. Admitting that she was confused about her situation, she told him: "I wasn't supposed to fall in love with you. None of this was supposed to happen."
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