There may be no modern figure whose personal life has been more exhaustively chronicled than the late Princess Diana. She first entered the glare of the spotlight at just 19 years old when she began to date Prince Charles, and never left: rarely was there a day without her photograph in the paper or her name in a headline for the next decade and a half, especially as her marriage began to crumble.
The upcoming fifth season of The Crown will examine, and dramatize, her relationships with not just Charles, but Dr. Hasnat Khan and Dodi Al Fayed—as well as how the media circled around them. Ahead of the show’s premiere on November 9, we revisit the highly publicized romances of Princess Diana.
Charles, the Prince of Wales
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In 1977, a then Diana Spencer first met Prince Charles of Wales at Althorp House, her 1,500-acre family estate in Northamptonshire, England, when she was just 16 years old. Three years later, she and Prince Charles began to date, and he proposed on February 24, 1981. When a reporter asked Charles if they were in love, he famously replied, “whatever ‘in love’ means.”
An estimated 750 million people watched their wedding several months later. Diana called it “the worst day of my life,” according to the documentary Diana: In Her Own Words. “I felt I was a lamb to the slaughter,” she once said. “And I knew it.”
By 1986, both were reportedly participating in extramarital affairs. In 1994, Charles told his official biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby, that he picked things back up with Camilla Parker Bowles. Meanwhile, it’s alleged that Diana’s affair with army captain James Hewitt started around this time, and rumors of their troubled marriage begin to appear in the press.
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