![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/royal-expert-reveals-dramatic-way-queen-really-handled-charles-diana-split/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/RF-OP-THE-CROWN.jpg&description=NOTHING in the Queen's life had ever prepared her for the decade portrayed in the latest series of The Crown. The years in question - 1990 to 1999 - were the most exacting, difficult and draining of Her Majesty's reign for many reasons, including the crumbling marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Prince Charles and Princess Diana's marriage breakdown sparked the most difficult years of the Queen's reignCredit: Getty The doomed relationship is controversially featured in the new series of The CrownCredit: Netflix In one episode of the Netflix show, an entirely fictitious scenario shows the Sunday Times publishing a poll that says half of Britain agrees the Queen should abdicate. Prince Charles - played by Dominic West - then uses this to voice his ambitions to the newly elected Prime Minister, John Major, over a stilted meeting. Sir John has already angrily denied the meeting ever took place, saying it was a "barrel load of nonsense". The Crown takes threads of truths and turns them into fact. In doing so, it misses out on the reality, which was often more dramatic. Charles and Queen at odds The truth is that at this time, the last thing the Queen would have ever considered was abdicating in Charles's favour. Well intentioned, hard working and dutiful he might have been, but the future king was not getting along with his mother. The Queen felt he was shirking his duty by becoming too involved in his personal problems and ignoring the bigger picture. She felt, as did the Queen Mother, that had he been possessed of a little more strength of character and emotional compassion for Diana he could have steered her out of her traumas. Then the relationship and eventually the marriage might have been saved - and along with it, the reputation of the Royal Family. It was a task that proved beyond him - as Diana proved to be a woman beyond his understanding. There was a great deal of tension among the Royal Family, with the Queen feeling Charles could have steered Dia){kind=link}
NOTHING in the Queen’s life had ever prepared her for the decade portrayed in the latest series of The Crown.
The years in question – 1990 to 1999 – were the most exacting, difficult and draining of Her Majesty’s reign for many reasons, including the crumbling marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
In one episode of the Netflix show, an entirely fictitious scenario shows the Sunday Times publishing a poll that says half of Britain agrees the Queen should abdicate.
Prince Charles – played by Dominic West – then uses this to voice his ambitions to the newly elected Prime Minister, John Major, over a stilted meeting.
Sir John has already angrily denied the meeting ever took place, saying it was a “barrel load of nonsense”.