On July 29, 1981, millions of people around the world watched 20-year-old Diana Spencer marry 32-year-old Prince Charles.
Despite the fact that outwardly everything testified to love and tenderness in their relationship, in fact, everything was clear about the fate of their marriage from the very beginning, reports Joinfo.ua. On July 29, 2020, the parents of Princes William and Harry could celebrate their 38th wedding anniversary. Lady Di's life story could have turned out differently. But, unfortunately, fate decreed differently. No matter how unfortunate it was, the marriage of the young people was doomed from the very beginning.
What did Prince Charles say to his friends hours before the wedding?
The documentary Charles and Di: The Truth Behind Their Wedding revealed that the prince was nervous about his decision to marry Lady Diana Spencer. Just hours before the wedding, he told his friends about his future wife: “She is incredibly beautiful, a perfect flower. But she's a child. She doesn’t look old enough to even pass for a high school graduate, much less to get married.”
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Elizabeth II's eldest son reportedly told friends he felt "confused and anxious" and was "afraid" of making a promise he would later regret. Deep down, he knew they had nothing in common. Charles kept saying, “I want to do right by my country. I want to do right by my family."
Scandal on the eve of the wedding
The documentary reveals that Princess Diana admitted to the "horrible scandal" that occurred over Charles's stag party.
At a reception at Buckingham Palace, guests congratulated the couple on their upcoming wedding. Journalist John Edwards recalled how one of the women wished Lady Di good luck, and the future princess covered her mouth and said: “There was a terrible row between Charles and me last night. Because of his bachelor party."
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She did not go into details. But, according to reports, after this there was an equally enchanting quarrel between the bride and groom.
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Prince Charles's two women. Princess Diana's Revenge Dress and Camilla Parker Bowles: the story of Diana and Charles through her eyes.
In June 1994, Princess Diana wore a dress that was not very princess-appropriate—a tight, off-the-shoulder black silk dress. Despite her estrangement and distance from Prince Charles since 1991, Diana still embodied an elegant radiance, even if she broke royal protocol. The iconic dress was soon dubbed the "Revenge Dress" due to the confession that was heard around the world that same night.
Two things happened that fateful night—Princess Diana spoke at a party hosted by Vanity Fair and Prince Charles's documentary "tell-all" premiered on national television. The documentary was made in an attempt to show Prince Charles in a more sympathetic light following his separation from Diana, who was beloved as the “people's princess.”
Unfortunately, the film's intention backfired when an on-screen interviewer asked Charles if he had been “faithful” to Diana during their marriage.
- Yes,” replied Prince Charles.
But everyone already knew that this was not true.
“We called it the 'revenge dress' because that same evening Prince Charles confessed to his infidelity with Camilla,” Kerry Taylor, whose company created Diana's ten most recognizable dresses in 2013. But we may never know Diana's true intentions in wearing the iconic black dress, as designer Christina Stambolian revealed that the dress was actually made for Diana three years before she first wore it. At that time, the princess was too nervous because she claimed that dressing him was "too bold." Anna Harvey, her former stylist, said she wanted to “look like a million dollars” that night. If the dress was Diana's little act of revenge, she looked like a million bucks.
Camilla's autobiography reveals secrets.
Something happened that should have happened a long time ago: Camilla Parker-Bowles spoke. The famous English patience was enough for 25 years of silence, but, obviously, there is a limit to everything. In the year of the “anniversary” of the death of Princess Diana, her ghost again haunts the UK - a new edition of the book “Diana. Her True Story,” in which the already devastating truth about her non-fairy-tale life with the Prince of Wales is supplemented with revealing transcripts of Lady Di’s personal audio recordings. 25 years after the first publication of these revelations, her “rival” decided to make her part of the story public. Very soon the book “The Duchess. The Untold Story, authored by the famous royal biographer Penny Junor. After spending many hours with Camilla, Charles, their friends and loved ones, interviewing their former secretaries, butlers and assistants, Junor wrote what the British Daily Mail has called "an explosive biography of Camilla."
“There have always been three of us in this marriage, and this, you know, is too much,” Diana said, wiping away a sudden tear in a scandalous interview with the BBC in 1995. The one in question was sitting at the TV at home at that moment and could not help but smile sarcasticly: those who knew Diana as well as Charles’s friends understood perfectly well that this was a one-man show. But the problem was that few knew the true Diana. For others, that day Camilla finally turned into absolute evil, a dissolute creature who destroyed the family of a beautiful and generous princess. By the time Diana gave this strange interview in every sense, the “halo effect” in relation to her was so powerful that few, in principle, could critically evaluate everything that she said.
For example, Diana said that when the book of her former lover James Hewitt was published, the first thing she did was rush to her children, terrified of what would happen to them when they found out about everything. But how is this concern related to the fact that a year later she herself gave an interview in which she told an audience of 20 million much more terrible things about her marriage?
Another lie was to deny, sitting in front of a television camera, his personal participation in writing the book “Diana. Her true story." The truth emerged only after her death - Diana did not just allow her friends to tell Morton about her suffering. She herself was the main storyteller. For weeks on end, she met with a friend, psychotherapist James Colthurst: they left Kensington Palace for walks, armed with a voice recorder, he asked her questions on the Morton list, and she answered them in a detailed form. Sometimes, when the situation allowed, they communicated by phone, and Diana dictated answers into the writing device at the other end of the line. So did she care what would happen to her sons when all this dirt reached them?
“I always thought that Andrew Morton's book should be taken with great caution,” recalls Penny Junor, author of the book about Camilla. “At that time, Diana had been in a marriage with Charles for more than 10 years, which was unhappy for both. She was angry, offended and wanted revenge. It is with this understanding of the situation that one must perceive its recordings. What was “true” for Diana was not necessarily true for others.”
In exploring the story of the most famous love triangle, Junor has done a truly magnificent job. “Diana, in her revelations, often took facts and distorted them - as many of the participants in those events said. And that discouraged people." For example, this was the entire history of the relationship between Charles and Camilla - from the very moment of the prince’s engagement to Diana.
“There were always three of us in our marriage,” Princess Diana said, but this was not true, the biographer assures. Married Camilla was indeed Charles' mistress, but when the prince proposed to Diana, they ended the relationship. It was a conscious choice of both. At that time, Camilla knew firsthand what it was like to be the wife of an unfaithful husband: Andrew cheated on her throughout the years, his adventures were no secret to their friends (after all, he often chose his mistresses from their own circle). Charles believed that they could remain just friends, because they had a lot in common, not just sex. At the same time, he was determined to try to love the sweet girl whom he had chosen as his wife. He believed that this was possible (after all, there are many similar examples in history). The fact that the marriage was committed was beyond any doubt. Charles and Diana barely knew each other. They had few opportunities to meet where they could get to know each other better. They write that Diana behaved nicely, and, surprisingly, at first, most of Charles’s friends with whom he managed to introduce her liked her. Even Camilla considered her a worthy match for the prince, in fact, approving the choice of a wife for her, as it seemed to her, already former lover.
Only three of Charles's friends questioned the prince's desire to marry Diana Spencer. Nicholas Soames, later to become a Tory MP, believed that the pair had too little in common and worried about the intellectual gulf between them. He was echoed by Norton Romsey, grandson of the Earl of Mountbatten, and his wife, Penny. She, among other things, did not believe in Miss Spencer’s sincerity, saying that Diana was not in love with the prince, but “with a concept.” Ultimately, it was Diana who once said: “If I’m lucky enough, I’ll become Princess of Wales...”. According to Lady Romsey, Diana Spencer wanted the role of a princess, but had a vague idea of how to play it.
Alas, these three voices were drowned in the chorus of other voices - those who were fascinated by the youth and modesty of the prince's bride. And Camilla definitely liked her. This was enough for Charles.
According to a royal biographer, a month before her death (in 1993), Diana's grandmother, Lady Ruth Fermoy (companion of the Queen Mother), asked for forgiveness from Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and Charles because family ambitions did not allow her to warn them about psychological my granddaughter's disorders from the very beginning. According to Lady Fermoy, Diana was already a demonstrative, unbalanced girl prone to pathological lies, but she knew how to play to the public when necessary. But all Lady Ruth did back in 1981 was tell Diana that the royal family lifestyle was not for her, that she could not fit into this family. And the “shy” granddaughter decisively crossed her grandmother off the guest list at her wedding.
Dramatic changes in Diana's behavior began just a few weeks after the official announcement of the engagement. As Penny Junor writes, Diana suddenly became suspicious, capricious, and irritable. It seemed to her that everyone around her was just talking about her. It seemed to her that Prince Charles was constantly talking about her with his friends and with the Queen. She was sure that all the servants in the Queen Mother's palace (where she had moved from her London apartment in order to protect herself from annoying paparazzi) were whispering about her and considered her unworthy of respect. It is curious that Diana said almost the same thing, only her voice sounded with conviction. She did not use the phrase “it seemed to me,” she stated that it was so. And no one could convince her otherwise. Exactly at that time, Diana’s attacks of bulimia returned - this eating disorder had visited her before, but not in such a pronounced form. She secretly filled her stomach with whatever she could find in the refrigerator and then vomited. Charles learned about this feature of Diana already during her honeymoon.
As Junor writes, Diana began to be jealous of Charles for all his friends, she did not like that he continued to spend time with them, it seemed to her that he should devote more time to her. The same applied to the communication between the Prince and the Queen. Charles, and others too, were sure that the sudden changes in Diana were the result of stress due to the falling attention to her person, and that after the wedding she would come to her senses. Therefore, in order not to irritate the bride, Charles, in fact, limited his contacts with friends, transferring most of his communication to telephone format. He also communicated with Camilla on the phone. She was his only close female friend, so it was from her that he sought advice on how to deal with his depressed fiancée.
At this time, something terrible happened - someone reported to Diana about the nature of the relationship between Charles and Camilla. It was a grave mistake on the part of the prince not to ensure that the bride learned about this from him and, as they say, “on the shore.” A terrible scene occurred between them, Diana destroyed furniture and screamed, and the prince could only say that from the moment of their engagement he had not had and would never have any other woman except his wife. Of course, Diana didn't believe him.
From that moment on, Camilla became her obsession. Diana spied on her fiancé, looking for evidence of his infidelity, and he, like a fool, secretly called Camilla and asked what he should do about all this. When your mother is the Queen, you have little chance of just going to her and having a heart-to-heart talk. So, Camilla remained for Charles the only woman with whom he could honestly and without guile discuss the problems that had arisen.
Camilla didn't like her role. Charles's stories embarrassed her; it seemed right to her to withdraw, at least for a while. In the end, they could no longer be lovers, and, judging by Diana’s behavior, friends too. But Charles needed a friend. And he couldn’t completely let Camille go at such a moment, even if they didn’t see each other like before. Diana later said that she was very hurt when Charles sent Camilla a bouquet of flowers who had meningitis. But the most disgusting scandal over Camilla occurred a couple of weeks before the wedding.
Diana didn't know Charles at all when she married him. Therefore, she assessed the prince’s actions based on her own, extremely meager life experience (mostly gleaned from simple romance novels). According to the royal biographer, shortly before the wedding, Charles decided to mark the end of his bachelor life and say goodbye to the women who meant something to him in the past. The fact is that the prince is a big fan of gifts and symbolic gestures. There were only four names on this list: Lady Tryon, Lady Sarah Keswick, Lady Cecil Cameron and Camilla Parker Bowles. He ordered jewelry for all the ladies with some kind of inscription on them. For Camilla, a gold bracelet with an enamel insert and the letters GF was chosen. It meant "Good Friend", but Diana translated it for the public as "Gladys and Fred", claiming that even then Charles and Camilla used pseudonyms to organize their secret meetings. She discovered this gift among other boxes lying on the table of Michael Colburn, one of Charles's secretaries. Colburn encountered the prince's bride on the threshold of the room - she looked extremely angry. She later admitted that she had rummaged through Colburn's desk, but they never brought up the conversation again. On this day, Diana again destroyed furniture and screamed at Charles. He still gave the bracelet to Camilla.
According to the recollections of one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting, on the evening before the wedding, Prince Charles stood near the window of Buckingham Palace, looked through the glass at the square where the final preparations were being made for the upcoming holiday, and tears quietly flowed down his cheeks.
On July 29, 1981, two pairs of eyes searched for Camilla in the crowd of royal wedding guests. Diana - to see the face of her rival, from whom she was right now finally and irrevocably taking away her lover. And Charles - to say goodbye to his past forever. That's what they all thought.
As Penny Junor writes, Camilla quietly withdrew from the lives of Charles and Diana for several years. She called him again only in 1986.
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Princess Diana did not make concessions to the royal family
Diana Spencer became the first bride of the royal heir, who was a simple Englishwoman and had a paid job before her marriage. She worked as a nanny and became friends with the owner. And she even invited her to the wedding.
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“Diana was head over heels in love with Charles. “I assumed that everything would be fine with them,” says friend Lady Di.
The woman noted that the princess's main problem was that she shattered all the royal family's ideas about her: "I think they expected her to just stay in the background and follow silently behind" ... apparently while her husband would spend the evenings with another.
Short-lived happiness and disappointment
Princess Diana and Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince Harry (1992).
Photo: Globallookpress At first everything went as it should have. A year after the wedding, Diana gave birth to a son, William.
, two years later - the second boy,
Harry
. The husband and wife tried to spend all their free time with their children, and Diana later admitted that these few years were the happiest in her family life.
Only very soon the illusion of family happiness was shattered. Charles began to visit Camilla again - old love does not rust...
