A selfish, despicable Prince Charles who crushes Diana: this is how you will hate him in Netflix's 'The Crown' (4)
The new season of the Netflix series spends a lot of time analyzing Carlos and Diana's relationship, and leaves the prince in a bad place.
It was the perfect fairy tale. The love story that everyone dreams of and that they see in the movies. Charles of England (71 years old) and Diana Spencer seemed made for each other. Young, charismatic, wealthy and heirs to the oldest monarchy in the world. But under the mask, when the lights went out, the reality was completely different.
When no one was looking there was not an iota of that love that magazines sold. Carlos never wanted Lady Di. And, although they later separated, their relationship was stormy. An ordeal for a young woman who, being just a teenager, sacrificed her entire life to be queen ... and who ended up being crushed by the entire Royal Family.
What has always been popular vox, the meat of gossip and rumors, Diana was telling in different books and interviews. Her charisma and her statements were the greatest attack on the Royal Family in its entire history. Now, we will see all of this starting on November 15 in the fourth season of The Crown, the wonderful Netflix series, which focuses its new episodes on the relationship between the two and on how Carlos broke Diana as if she were a small branch . It broke her confidence, sunk her and caused a state of nerves that pushed her to bulimia and an infinite sadness that she always showed in the background of those blue eyes that made the world fall in love.
It does not seem that this season of The Crown is going to like it in Buckingham. If in the previous batch of chapters Carlos was presented as a free verse within the family, a person full of ideals with a desire to renew the institution, here he is shown a despicable and selfish person. That is the impersity of this journalist when watching the entire season, and especially the episodes Fairy Tale, No Man's Land, Avalanche and War. Not only did he not love his wife, but he was unfaithful to her from the first moment. He didn't care if everyone knew and he even laughed at his wife. "She is pathetic. So weak and fragile," he tells Camila (72) in one of the most inclement moments of the season.
The episode in which we see how their relationship is cursed from the beginning is called, precisely, Fairy Tale. A 50-minute gem in which we see the beginning of Diana's bulimia and how from the first minute she felt alone, with no one to help her.
You can also see the first rudeness of Carlos, even before the wedding. In the first press conference they gave together, when a journalist asked them if they were very much in love, she said without hesitation that 'of course'. She, with no happiness on her face, added: "Whatever that means."
The Royal Family does not do very well either. Diana's first visit to Buckingham makes it clear that she was never seen as just another. A scene in which she bows to all the members while laughing because she does them wrong and in the wrong order. Princess Margaret is the only one who realizes that this marriage is a curse, a condemnation for both, but the Queen Mother and Elizabeth II (94) do not have the same opinion and push them to a luxury wedding. The wedding every British dreamed of and the beginning of the end.
But before the link, Carlos already has other moments in which his most despicable face is seen. He tells Diana that if she feels lonely, call Camila, even though they all knew they had been a couple. A dinner at a restaurant whose name says it all, 'Ménage à Trois', and in which Diana realizes that the relationship has not ended. "This is what Carlos calls the palace", "Didn't you know that?" ... He doesn't stop undermining the fiancee's trust until he bursts out saying, "Obviously he tells you everything." Camila confirms the worst suspicions: "Well ... We talk almost every day."
Days before the wedding, Diana finds a bracelet design with the words Fred and Gladys engraved, the names by which they are called Carlos and Camila in private in a strange role play. The photos of her lover in her diary, the love letters that had been written on her desk, the cufflinks with her initials 'C&C' that she got to wear on her honeymoon ... all are proof of a relationship that never ended and that he continued after marrying Lady Di.
The contempt of Prince Charles runs wild on the tour of Australia, in which she is confirmed as the princess of the people. They all love her. It's fresh, fun, modern… When he goes alone, nobody pays any interest. She becomes jealous, like a small child. He complains, plays the victim and tells his wife that she shows no interest in him and even that "thanks to you they laugh in my face." This fourth season is full of Carlos's contempt for Diana. Like when she dances for him with Billy Joel and waits for him in the official car that "that grotesque and mortifying display had nothing to do with me or my happiness."
He is willing to break up the marriage, and Queen Elizabeth knows that the union is about to end, so she reunites them and it is Lady Di who agrees to try again, even acknowledging her extramarital affair with cavalry officer James Hewitt. But he does not want to try again and even spies on his wife so that if he slips again they will find out and have arguments to ask for the separation.
Meanwhile, he continues to see Camila at Highgrove, her riding school. Carlos established his residence there to be able to be with his lover, and in one of the scenes that will most enrage the Royal Family, you can see how the service changes Camila's photos for Diana's when she goes to visit him, and even how They pick up the first nightwear from under the pillow.
Because he never loved Diana, but he always loved Camila, and he makes it clear in another of the most forceful dialogues of this season: "My marriage, this whole farce is crazy, I just want to be with you. Everything else is a horrible lie. ". A relationship whose end we know, but which will be seen in the series in the next season, although it is difficult for Carlos to continue seeing the fiction that showed his darker face.
