Additionally, during her audition for the role of Diana, Corrin was asked to give an impromptu performance of the song karaoke-style. I never realized how much scaffolding a smile required.”įans can now judge the performance for themselves. “Honestly, there’s nothing more exhausting than putting on a kind face. “The chap playing the Phantom at least had a mask to hide behind,” Charles told Anne. The Crown used the performance to illustrate what a poor match Charles and Diana were, showing the former complaining to his sister Princess Anne about the “monstrous” recording later in the episode. The researchers were unable to confirm if Diana danced or sang to the track, but the performance was largely believed to have been taped at the West End, where Corrin also filmed the clip using the musical’s original set. “And how I can show what I really feel.” The real Princess Diana did indeed gift her then-husband a performance of the track, a matter researched for The Crown by a team led by Annie Sulzberger, according to a Netflix.
“I love to perform, it’s how I can best express myself,” Diana tells her husband during the episode. In Episode 9 of The Crown’s fourth season, Princess Diana gifts the performance to Prince Charles for their seventh wedding anniversary, which was in 1988. The video, below, shows Diana standing in a period-piece costume and singing Andrew Lloyd Webster’s heartbreaking lyrics: “Love me, that’s all I ask of you.”
Prince Charles may not have been thrilled to receive a recording of “All I Ask of You” from Phantom of the Opera as a gift from Princess Diana during Season 4 of The Crown, but fans will likely be eager to watch a new outtake of Emma Corrin performing the song as Diana in the Emmy-winning Netflix series.
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