The writers of “The Crown” are definitely not afraid of the wrath of British Crown experts. After the death of Lady Diana and its impact on the royal family, which had already led to people close to Elizabeth II saying the series was not based on reality, this is the first meeting between Prince William and Kate Middleton, that Peter Morgan, the series creator, invented from the ground up. In the second part of the sixth season of “The Crown”, available on Netflix since December 14, fans were able to see a sequence that shows a meeting between William and Kate when they were still teenagers. In this scene we see young Kate Middleton, aged 15, walking with her mother in London to go shopping. They then meet Prince William and his mother, Princess Diana, while mother and son sell copies of the Big Issue magazine, a magazine distributed by homeless people to make them some money.
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The Crown: Kate Middleton never met Princess Diana
In this scene, young Kate Middleton buys a copy of the magazine at her mother's urging and is then praised by Lady Diana for her generosity. She then asks her son to thank the future Princess of Wales. This meeting could have been worthy of a fairy tale, as Kate Middleton actually became Princess of Wales by marrying Prince William in 2011. But this version of the story is watered down. The scene never happened and Kate Middleton never met Princess Diana.
The real meeting between William and Kate
In 2001, Kate Middleton and Prince William met at university after Lady Di died in Paris four years earlier. Although they began dating in the early 2000s, it took until 2008 for their relationship to become official in the eyes of the British and the Crown. When Kate Middleton wore Lady Diana's engagement ring in 2010, she said: “Unfortunately, I never met her.” A public comment that puts an end to all speculation about a possible fairy tale, as The Crown would have us believe .
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The Crown: Why did you make up this scene from Season 6?
The Big Issue magazine also mentioned this fictional scene from “The Crown” in an article published on its website. “Is our role in William and Kate’s romance our greatest royal achievement? That could have been it. But it never happened,” explains the actress. So why did the creators of the Netflix series decide to use “The Big Issue” in one of their storylines? last season? What did they want to say about the Prince and Princess of Wales? What do we symbolize?” The magazine apparently asked the question to one of the producers of “The Crown.” “The big theme was chosen because we wanted to show Princess Diana's commitment to charity and in particular her work with the homeless. We knew she wanted her sons to be sensitive to this and participate too,” she replied. Years later, Prince William continues to sell The Big Issue magazines like his mother did.
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