Fact-Checking The Crown Season 4: How Well Does It Hold Up To Reality?

Throughout the season, Diana notices all of the gifts Charles and Camilla exchange, which were all pulled from real-life tokens of affection.

But the first realization came when Charles sent Camilla flowers when she had meningitis, which is how Diana discovered their nicknames, Gladys and Fred. “I once heard him on the telephone in his bath on his hand-held set, saying, ‘Whatever happens, I will always love you,'” Diana told Andrew Morton. 

Next came the bracelet engraved with the nicknames—gifted just two weeks before Charles and Diana’s wedding. Someone in Charles’ office clued Diana into the trinket and when she opens it, “I said, ‘I know where this is going,'” she recalled to Morton. “I was devastated.”

“I opened it, and there was [the] bracelet, and I said, ‘I know where this is going.’ I was devastated.”

And then, finally, there were the cufflinks he wore on their honeymoon.

“Two C’s entwined like the Chanel ‘C.’ Got it. One knew exactly,” she told Morton. “So I said, ‘Camilla gave you those didn’t she?’ He said ‘Yes, so what’s wrong? They’re a present from a friend.’ And boy, did we have a row. Jealousy, total jealousy. And it was such a good idea the two C’s, but it wasn’t that clever.”