When the two met to release the planned routine, she already had chosen the music for it: "Uptown Girl," a No. "It was all top secret," he told the UK newspaper The Guardian in 2017. He and Diana had met years earlier and bonded over a mutual love of dance, and the princess approached him with her plan to perform together at the private event for supporters of the Royal Ballet. While "The Crown" re-imagines it as a birthday present for the prince, who in actuality turned 37 over a month before, Sleep recalls the scene was otherwise true to life. Diana envisioned it as a surprise Christmas present for her husband, Prince Charles (Josh O'Connor). The scene, featuring Emma Corrin as Diana and Jay Webb as acclaimed dancer-choreographer Sleep, restages the dance the duo did at the annual Friends of Covent Garden gala in London. The Princess asked choreographer Wayne Sleep to choreograph a dance to her favorite song, Billy Joel's 'Uptown Girl.' "
"Yes, it's True!" applauded the Long Island music legend's Facebook account, of the scene that appeared in this fourth season's penultimate episode, "Avalanche." "December 23 1985, The Royal Opera House in London: Princess Diana had a vision to surprise Prince Charles at a lavish private show for supporters and friends of the Royal Ballet's holiday celebration.
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He thought she was showing off,” shared royal expert Richard Kay.Billy Joel is cheering on the Netflix series "The Crown" for recreating Princess Diana's real-life choreographed dance to his hit "Uptown Girl," which she performed for a ballet gala in 1985. She’d already decided on the music: Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl”,” he shared.Īnd on the night of the performance, as shared by Sleep with CBS, she “walked out for eight counts…and then stopped, looked at the audience beautifully, and there was a gasp from the audience of 2,500 people who took an intake of breath all at the same time.” She was mesmerizing, beautiful and achieved a level of perfection that left the audience “speechless.”īut though Princess Diana was ecstatic and excited about her Uptown Girl-performance, sure that Charles would appreciate her gift to him, her plan backfired. But I soon realized she had a good sense of humor, and that we could have some fun with our height difference. 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. We met in a rehearsal studio in west London. “Charles was going to be in the audience and she wanted to surprise him it was all top secret. But while he didn’t have time then, he agreed to help her with her performance at the Royal Opera House in 1985. Wayne Sleep, who was Princess Diana’s partner in “Uptown Girl” dance, shared in a 2017 interview with The Guardian, that the future Queen of England approached him in the 80s with the proposition for him to teach her Ballet.
Princess Diana did dance to “Uptown Girl” much to the annoyance of the Prince And as he later angrily rebukes a hopeful Diana, her performance just ensured that on his 37th birthday, she is the centre of attention.įor those thinking that The Crown creator Peter Morgan must have fabricated this over-the-top scene can put their theories to rest as this did happen. The episode opens with Charles’ expression turning sour as his perfect evening is ruined by the innocent attempt of his wife to impress him– Princess Diana ascends the stage in a silk negligee and starts performing an impressively choreographed number on “Uptown Girl.” Charles, who is already incensed that his wife is blatantly blowing away royal etiquettes, is further stoked when the audience erupts in applause. Emma Corrin as Princess Diana performs on Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl”
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