that morning, Charles first wakes William then Harry. They’re all currently in the midst of their annual summer vacation at Balmoral Castle with the Queen and Prince Philip.

Hours after Diana ( Elizabeth Debicki) is pronounced dead, her ex-husband and the father of her children, Prince Charles (Dominic West), must, in the midst of his own towering grief, break the terrible news to his kids. This heartbreaking moment, at least Peter Morgan’s interpretation of it, appears in The Crown’s sixth season. While the world mourned publicly on such a grand, vocal scale-and to an extent, still continues to-one can only imagine what it was like for her two beloved boys, who were only 15 and 12 years old at the time. Their mother, Princess Diana, had been in an accident in Paris, and she did not survive the crash. 31, 1997, Princes William and Harry woke up to the worst news of their lives.