
She was Lady Diana Spencer, an earl’s daughter. Now, it seems quite normal for Prince William to marry someone who is not noble, and the same is true, of course, with Prince Harry, but in those days, it was still expected that Prince Charles, the future king, would marry – and he did marry – the approved candidate. It’s not impossible that (as in the show) Mountbatten used his naval connections to get Charles sent away to sea for a long time (to keep him away from Camilla).

Lacey: I don’t know if (she) is the first great love of Charles’ life, but it’s the first chronicled love of Charles’ life.


Is that accurate? And why didn’t they like Camilla for Charles before she married Andrew Parker-Bowles? In the show, the royal family disapproves of her, even then, and tries to break them up. may not know that Prince Charles dated Camilla Shand (Emerald Fennell) when she was single and before he met Diana Spencer. The irony was that spy was actually in the queen’s own entourage – Antony Blunt – and also that Harold Wilson would go on to become her most popular prime minister, and the one with whom she got (along with) best of all.įrom London: 'The Crown': On set with Olivia Colman and the new cast of Netflix's royals drama These documents would have passed across the queen’s (desk). (A CIA agent) made the accusation to the British that Harold Wilson was a Russian spy. In America the suspicions were being upheld. Harold Wilson, in his political career and his private life, had a lot of links with Soviet Russia. Robert Lacey: There is evidence of the queen being very anxious and worried about a socialist prime minister. Did she really suspect he was a foreign agent?

Question: The first episode of the season deals with Queen Elizabeth’s (Colman) anxiety over the election of Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson (Jason Watkins), including her believing rumors that he was a spy for the Soviet Union.
