before princess diana entered into her grotesque miss alliance with
prince charles she was just a 19 year old who liked to party
in the new series of the crown we see the soon-to-be princess played by emma corrin
out clubbing with her girlfriends and dancing on tables to stevie nicks she may not have been
following the strict protocol from the palace but it's obvious she loved a royally good night out
there have been many well-documented scenes of diana on the dancefloor especially in the
netflix series ballroom dancing with charles in sydney then throwing some shapes to billy
joel's uptown girl at the royal opera house but all these pale in comparison to the story
of a wild night out that diana had with freddie mercury kenny everett and cleo rocco's in the 80s
it's a story that's now become embedded in urban legend it first came to light in 2013 when in
rocco's memoirs the power of positive drinking she described a casual day in the lives of the
biggest rock star on the planet the princess of wales a much-loved comedian and the actor rocos
the group apparently spent the afternoon drinking champagne and watching the golden
girls very lockdown too dubbing their own naughty dialogue over the muted tv show by evening the
high jinks escalated and the gang decided to go clubbing to the iconic gay cabaret bar the royal
vaxhall tavern in south london diana said that she was in full mischief mode and mercury agreed
go on let the girl have some fun but there was just a question of how diana
one of the most well-known faces on the planet could pass off on notice to the other clubbers
the answer by making her a rather eccentrically dressed gay male model the trio made her look
more masked by styling her in a baseball cap sunglasses and an army bomber jacket rocco's said
she did look like a beautiful young man the friends made their way through the vauxhall club
inch through the leather throngs and thongs and it was only fair that it was diana's round at the bar
after her drag king makeover her order white wines and beer rocco's added in her book when
we walked in we felt she was obviously princess diana and would be discovered at any minute
but people just seemed to blank her she sort of disappeared but she loved it we
were nudging each other like naughty school children diana and freddie were giggling once
the transaction was completed we looked at one another united in our triumphant quest
we did it the gang then left after just 20 minutes presumably for an after party that was too spicy
for even rocco's to put down in print while the crown sadly doesn't focus on this particular
rock and roll meets royalty episode it's something that has been worthy of a small screen adaptation
before
in 2019 sky arts urban myth series broadcast the program princess diana freddie mercury
and kenny everett which imagines the epic night out even further in it the fictionalized diana
played by sophie rundle befriends a drag queen in the tavern and it inspires her to start her
campaigning for gay rights and her work with those who have hiv aids she ends with the realization
the next time people turn around expecting me to talk i should actually say something
she's then pushed home by mercury and everett in a supermarket trolley while this particular
reworking of roko's story is obviously a flight of fancy it's still a joy to see the experience
come to life on screen and fans are now desperate for it to be recreated for the next series of the
crown
one viewer on twitter said i'm basically only watching the crown in case they do the diana
and freddie mercury go to the vauxhall tavern bit which we all know is the only royal family related
story worth putting on screen another commented if there isn't a scene in the crown series 5 where
diana is taken to the rvt in drag by freddie mercury we sue netflix while another fan added
let's start a petition whether the writer peter morgan chooses to grant their wishes for series
5 it still remains one of the greatest pop culture stories of the 80s has its veracity
been confirmed no not exactly do we want it to be true absolutely very quickly that wasn't right
not that i've ever had much more luck with a gun
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