It’s brought home to me how much our friendship meant to each other. Have you watched The Crown’s reinterpretation of your dance? Read on to learn more about why Diana was keen on that particular song, the audience’s actual reaction, and Sleep’s post-dance meeting with Charles. Decades later, Sleep still considers it to be one of the defining dances of his career, and he was happy to reminisce with Vulture about the experience. ( The Crown framed it as a birthday surprise.) Sleep and Diana were able to practice in secret for weeks leading up to the evening, with only a few people privy to the “very Bob Fosse” moves that they were perfecting. Wayne Sleep, an accomplished dancer and choreographer, was Diana’s partner in pizzazz on that memorable evening - the duo had been friendly with each other for years leading up to the performance, with Diana summoning him to help her concoct a special Christmas present for Prince Charles. Unlike some of the creative liberties the show has taken in recent years, Diana’s dance was very much a real-life tabloid sensation when it occurred in December 1985, although the circumstances surrounding it were a bit different. She boogies down to Stevie Nicks with friends at a club, right on the cusp of being a paparazzi target she roller skates to noted babes Duran Duran as she acclimates to her new palace digs and, at the beginning of episode nine, she tries (and fails) to impress her husband, Prince Charles, by performing a contemporary dance routine to Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” in front of thousands of adoring Royal Opera House patrons. There are few moments of joy for Princess Diana to experience in season four of The Crown, but when they do arrive, they’re often tethered to music.
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