Post by Admin on Jul 26, 2021 15:32:01 GMT -4
She wanted to surprise Prince Charles on his Birthday but he wasn't really happy about it.
She loved to dance and have just a little fun.
How did Prince Charles react?
In The Crown, Josh O'Connor's Charles is upset by this surprise, as he thinks Diana is trying to show off and upstage him. (The gala was hosted for his 37th birthday, after all.) The stunt exacerbates his already-present irritation over how well liked and popular his wife is.
In real life, it's unclear exactly how the prince felt, though some accounts suggest that he was unhappy with the performance. Per Vanity Fair, one of Diana's biographers, Tina Brown, wrote that Charles was cool and detached after the performance. "It was embarrassingly clear that he had not been ravished by the spectacle of his wife en pointe. His disappointing response, when it leaked, was interpreted as frigid disapproval of Diana's lapse in royal etiquette."
But Sleep said that things were fine, at least from his point of view at the after-party. "He had a raised eyebrow, you might say. It didn't go any further than that at the party," he told Vulture.
Her partner and the princess rehearsed privately in a studio in West London. "She was in leg-warmers and a leotard," he added. "My first thought was, she's too tall to dance with me, I'll be a laughing stock: I'm 5ft 2in and she's 5ft 11in. But I soon realized she had a good sense of humor, and that we could have some fun with our height difference. She'd already decided on the music: Billy Joel's Uptown Girl."
As for Diana's song choice, Sleep explained to Vulture, "There was a music video that went with the song and she must've seen the video. There's a lovely lady with a hat—she's very chic and gets out of a car. Diana knew she could play that role of sophistication."
The night of, Sleep signaled to Diana from the wings of the stage that it was time for her to get backstage. The piece opened with Sleep but Diana made her grand entrance soon after, leaving the audience in shock. The choreography had turns, high kicks, and even a lift of sorts. Diana wasn't playing around.
