Prince William’s ex-girlfriend Lola in The Crown doesn’t exist
Lorraine reacts to ‘fictional’ scenes in The Crown
WARNING: This article contains spoilers from The Crown.
The Crown depicts Prince William as having dated a young woman by the name of Lola Airedale-Cavendish Kincaid but does she really exist?
Part two, season six of The Crown pays particular attention to Prince William (played by Ed McVey) in the first few years after his mother Princess Diana’s (Elizabeth Debicki) death.
He goes to St Andrew’s University and in the Netflix drama, he meets a Lola Airedale-Cavendish Kincaid at a party and they quickly hit it off.
William and Lola start dating but it comes to an abrupt end as he was seen flirting with Kate Middleton (Meg Bellamy) in the library and she breaks up with him for being “outdoorsy”.
Thankfully, by the end of episode seven, William and Kate are together and move into their Hope Street flat with some friends in their second year of university.
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The Crown: Is Prince William’s ex-girlfriend Lola a real person?
While the majority of the characters in The Crown are based on real people, Lola is not one of them.
There is no one of the name Lola Airedale-Cavendish Kincaid, or at least a woman called this that has dated Prince William.
It is instead believed that she is very loosely based on the Prince of Wales’ ex-girlfriend Carley Massy-Birch who he dated in his first year at St Andrew’s.
Opening up on their brief romance in 2010, Carley said: “I’m a real country bumpkin.
“ I think that was why we had a connection. William was in the year below, and we just happened to meet through the general St. Andrews melee.”
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She continued: “It’s such a small place that it was impossible not to bump into William, and after a while there was nothing weird about seeing him around.
“We got on well, but I think we would have got on well even if nothing had been going on romantically.
“It was very much a university thing, just a regular university romance.”
Carley wasn’t the only woman in William’s life before he started dating Kate either.
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Prior to his romantic involvement with his future wife, the prince had a number of girlfriends, although they are not shown in The Crown.
Some of these reportedly included Rose Farquhar, Davina Duckworth-Chad, Olivia Hunt, Jecca Craig and Arabella Musgrave.
When Kate and William briefly broke up in 2007, he also briefly dated Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe.
The Crown is available to watch on Netflix.
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