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“Love me, that’s all I ask of you,” sings Emma Corrin as Princess Diana in a deleted scene from season four of The Crown.

The clip was recently released on YouTube.

They are heartbreaking and powerful words considering everything that happened to Diana, and all the more so because it is based on a real situation in which she tried to surprise Prince Charles with a musical performance, only to be let down by his reaction.

According to multiple reports on the real incident, Diana also got on stage to perform Uptown Girl, thinking Charles would find it sweet, but he ended up finding the whole performance “distasteful.”

In The Crown, a similar scene unfolds with a performance of ‘All I Ask Of You’ from the musical The Phantom of the Opera.

In the deleted, shared by Netflix, Corrin watches a recording of her performance, which came at the end of an episode showing the couple’s relationship breaking down.

Tatler describes it as one of the most memorable episodes of the series, probably because many viewers doubted that these events were based on reality:

As Corrin told Vanity Fair: “That it’s exactly as it happened in the series – as in she hired the West End set, got a film crew in, and filmed it for Charles. Which is mental.”

Enjoy:

I bet you are in just as much awe as the West End crew from the scene because Diana/Corrin sure does have stage presence.

Charles might not have been thrilled, but The Crown fans most likely will be.

[source:tatler]