Princess Diana’s first scene in The Crown’s sixth season is a candy one: She and her eldest son, Prince William, whip by the English countryside in a convertible, their heads bobbing alongside to Chumbawamba. In that very same episode, “Persona Non Grata,” and in its follow-up, “Two Images,” the late royal shares extra heat moments with William and youthful son Harry—cuddling them and enjoying soccer, pranks, and Uno. It’s the primary heat and casual relationship we’ve seen between an inheritor to the throne and his or her mom on Peter Morgan’s drama collection, and the scenes starkly distinction Prince Charles’s scenes together with his personal “pricey mama,” Queen Elizabeth.

In “Persona Non Grata,” a 49-year-old Prince Charles waits in a double-breasted swimsuit for the queen’s handlers to grant him entry for a personal dialog. Charles makes an attempt to drag on her dusty heartstrings—telling her that one of the best moments of his childhood have been when he was offered to her by his nannies—however she is just too busy doting on her beloved corgi to course of Charles’s emotional craving. “Now, was there anything?” the queen says witheringly, bringing a swift halt to the mother-son fireplace. “I believe this [dog] may actually use my consideration.”

In actual life, too, Diana repeatedly demonstrated her maternal heat in moments captured in dialog (“I dwell for my sons. I might be misplaced with out them,” she’s quoted as saying) and on digital camera—letting William and Harry bury her in sand on the seashore; delightedly yelping on Disney World rides along with her sons and their safety element; and, in one thing that sounds trivial however speaks volumes for a royal, simply lovingly touching her kids. 

In Spare—Prince Harry’s bridge-burning memoir devoted, partially, to his late mom—Charles and Diana’s second-born shared an anecdote encapsulating Diana’s and the queen’s polar reverse attitudes towards affection:

There was a well-known story about Mummy attempting to hug Granny. It was truly extra of a lunge than a hug, if eyewitnesses could be believed; Granny swerved to keep away from contact, and the entire thing ended very awkwardly, with averted eyes and murmured apologies…. I puzzled, if Pa ever tried? In all probability not. When he was 5 – 6, Granny left him, went off on a royal tour lasting a number of months, and when she returned, she provided him a agency handshake.

Since Diana’s 1997 dying, her tradition-bucking maternal type has been revisited advert nauseam—the key journeys to McDonald’s, the naughty playing cards and jokes she adored, and the stunts she pulled. Just like the time she shocked a 12- or 13-year-old William with a go to from the real-life fashions plastered on the partitions of his bed room. “I went vibrant purple, didn’t actually know what to say,” William recalled in 2017’s Diana, Our Mom: Her Life and Legacy, making a uncommon admission. “I just about fell down the steps…I used to be fully and completely form of awestruck. That was a very humorous reminiscence that’s lived with me without end about her, loving and embarrassing and being the form of the joker.”