The year 2020 might be a challenging year for Prince Charles not only because of COVID-19 but also because of The Crown season 4, which re-ignited his controversial and troubled first marriage to Princess Diana and his affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles.
Since the Netflix drama's release in mid-November, the social media accounts of Prince Charles and Camilla, his second wife, have been riddled with hate posts from trolls who just learned of the affair from the dramatized series. Clarence House had to resort to shutting down the comments section of the heir to the throne's social media more than once because of the online attacks.
However, Charles himself has never resorted to addressing the haters who were able to voice their disgusts for his affair with Camilla. Royal author Howard Hodgson, who is also a friend of Prince Charles, told Daily Express that there would be very little chance the public will hear anything from the Prince of Wales regarding The Crown's backlash for one very good reason: it will go against the memory of Princess Diana.
Hodgson said that Charles had experienced this same criticisms and condemnation before when he separated from the Princess of Wales in the early 1990s and following Diana's death in 1997. Even then, the Queen's heir followed the same mantra observed by the royal family, which is to "never explain, never complain." So, despite the bad press that The Crown season 4 unwittingly brought on to the future King of the United Kingdom, Hodgson believes Charles will continue to be tight-lipped about sharing his side of the story.
But while viewers of The Crown take the stories about the lives of the royal family as historical fact, those who truly know them have come out to point out the inaccuracies in the series. Former royal chef Darren McGrady said in an interview with Us Weekly that Charles and Diana had their happy moments, such as when they went on their first royal tour in Australia.
In the series, the couple was shown to have had major arguments during their trip Down Under, but McGrady recalled that the Wales couple was truly happy at that time. The chef also said that Diana and Charles had fantastic times at the Ghillies Ball in Balmoral Castle because the couple loved dancing together.
McGrady understood that the Netflix drama used "artistic license" to tell a different story. At the back of his mind, however, the cook said that the writers of The Crown "don't know the whole truth."
