Prince Harry and Prince William have bigger roles in this season’s latest episode crown, Their fictional portrayals have been compared to real life in viral TikTok videos.
In the new episode, the boys are seen in the last years of Princess Diana’s life, with Charles III played by Dominic West and William played by the actor’s real-life son Senan West. Will Powell as Harry.
TikTok users have demonstrated just how close the show’s dramatization is to reality by placing footage from the episode alongside videos from chronicles of the royal family’s history.
User @baciudarius wrote, “They made such a great choice for Princess Diana,” referring to Elizabeth Debicki’s performance as William and Harry’s mother.
The moment quoted is from William’s first day at Eton College on September 6, 1995, when he was photographed with Harry and his parents at a boarding school in Berkshire. In real life, the decision to send William to Eton, a short distance from Windsor Castle, was controversial for fear of press intrusion.
The day before the semester starts baltimore sun “By placing William in Eton, the royal family not only pushed him into a well-established incubator in Britain, but placed him in a town of 3,600 people, which is thronged with tourists throughout the year.
“A double-decker tour bus hangs by William’s new home,” the story continued. “Each school day he has to cross the street where he can be intercepted by photographers. Even behind closed doors, he can be subject to unwanted intrusion.
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“Newspapers have reportedly been contacted by students who act as ‘mole’ and are willing to report on the actions of a boy who might one day become king.” Sun Said.
Lord Wakeham, chairman of the now-defunct Press Commission, Press Complaints Commission, quoted in a newspaper in 1995, said: , in one important way he is different from other children. “
A passage from the article may sound familiar to fans of crown, That’s because William in Senan West is shown talking to Queen Elizabeth II, played by Imelda Staunton, about the unusual language used in school.
of Sun The story said, “Here the school term is ‘half’ and the teacher is ‘beak’. Whether 99 or 19, the graduate becomes an ‘Old Eatonian’.”
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