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- 20 years after her death, Princess Diana’s entry into the British royal family is the main story of season 4 of The Crown.
- Emma Corrin, who plays Lady Di, said she felt “great pressure” taking on the role.
- The new season premieres on Netflix on Sunday, November 15.
More than two decades after her death, Princess Diana’s unfortunate entry into the British royal family is the main plot of the long-awaited fourth season of the hit Netflix drama. The crown.
Emma Corrin, a 24-year-old actress little known until now, immerses herself in the role of young Diana, capturing her soft voice and shy gaze under heavy bangs.
But the actress admitted in an interview with The Sunday Times he felt “great pressure” to carry out the role in the new season, which begins Sunday.
Josh O’Connor as Prince Charles and Emma Corrin as Lady Diana Spencer in The Crown.
Diana is shown as a naive teenager who quickly gets lonely in the role of Prince Charles’s fiancee and skates around Buckingham Palace to pass the time.
Even before her unhappy marriage, she begins bulimia cycles: bingeing and then purging herself from food.
Diana Spencer had just turned 20 when the couple married in 1981, while Charles was 32.
As heir to the throne, since he turned 30, he had faced pressure to marry to ensure the succession.
Despite having doubts, he agreed to propose to Diana, but did not sever ties with his longtime lover, Camilla Parker-Bowles.
Diana died in a car accident in Paris in 1997 and Charles subsequently married Parker-Bowles in 2005.
While the previous series showed Charles as a sensitive and misunderstood child, as Diana’s husband is seen as cold and unfaithful, complaining to Camilla that she is “so weak, so fragile”.
Feeling powerless to help Diana, Charles “probably became a little callous,” Penny Junor, a royal expert and biographer whose books include Charles: Victim or Villain?he told AFP.
“But I don’t think he was ever arrogant or indifferent. And I think he really tried to make his marriage work.”
Josh O’Connor as Prince Charles and Emma Corrin as Princess Diana in The Crown.
‘Terrible mismatch’
Diana had been “damaged” by her childhood, as she was only six years old when her mother left the family and “grew up feeling unloved and unwanted,” Junor said.
Charles and Diana’s marriage was a “terrible mismatch,” he added.
Her marriage breakdown due to infidelities and Diana’s confessional TV interview was scandalous at the time and is making headlines even today.
The BBC has pledged to conduct an independent investigation into how its journalist Martin Bashir persuaded Diana to take part in the sensational 1995 interview.
Diana’s brother Charles Spencer claims Bashir showed false documents to persuade Diana to take part in the interview, in which she famously complained that “there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.”
“I wanted to hurt and harm Charles. But I think she was a very fragile woman, her mental health was very fragile,” Junor said.
“I think a lot of people exploited it … for their own ends and the BBC was among them.”
Strong female roles
The love triangle is one of the main stories of the fourth season, spanning the late 1970s and 1980s.
The period was marked by deadly violence against the British government in Northern Ireland, including the murder of Charles’s great-uncle and confidant, Louis Mountbatten, by the IRA in 1979.
It also included the 1982 Falklands War with Argentina during which Charles’s younger brother Andrew served as a helicopter pilot for the Royal Navy.
The writers also dramatize a notorious incident that year in which a 33-year-old man, Michael Hagan, frustrated at being unemployed and separated from his wife, broke into Buckingham Palace and entered the queen’s bedroom.
The queen, who kept her legendary cool blood, is again played by Olivia Colman, the British actress who won an Oscar for The favorite in 2019.
In season five, she will hand over the role of the eldest queen to Imelda Staunton, 64, known for playing the cruel Dolores Umbridge in the Harry Potter Films.
American actress Gillian Anderson plays Margaret Thatcher, the imperious first woman to lead the British government, in a season dominated by strong female roles.
Gillian Anderson in The Crown.
A critical and popular success, The crown it first aired in 2016 and has won numerous awards, including three Golden Globes and 10 Emmys.
A total of 73 million people have watched at least one episode of the series, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s joint chief executive and chief content officer, said in January.
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