Prince Charles and Princess Diana's First Meeting Was Completely Different from on 'The Crown'

cosmopolitan.com:

fully dating Diana's older sister Lady Sarah. , they "sort of met in a plowed field" during a shoot, so it didn't exactly go down like it does on The Crown (in which they meet inside, while Diana is in costume).

During his engagement interview, Charles recalled meeting Di for the first time and thinking how "very jolly" she was, but again, he was dating Sarah at the time.

Like, there are pics and everything:Diana and Charles have their first romantic encounter at mutual friend Philip de Pass's home.

She actually talked about it at length during a taped conversation used in the documentary , saying, “He’d just broken up with his girlfriend and his friend Mountbatten had just been killed.