‘I know what’s going on between you and Charles, and I want you to know that,’ Camilla recalled Diana’s words in a recording published by The Telegraph, quoted by Town & Country.
Diana said to me, ‘You have everything you ever wanted. All the men in the world are in love with you, you have two beautiful children, what more could you want?’
“And I said, “I need my husband.” And I said, ‘I’m sorry I’m getting in your way, and this must be hell for both of you. But I know what’s going on. Don’t treat me like an idiot,” Camilla explained.
Obviously, this was a big shock for Diana, because her husband apparently no longer wanted to see her. However, the problems with Charles did not start immediately. Even before the wedding, it became clear that Charles had other plans. At least, that’s what Diana’s astrologer Penny Thornton claims.
Charles and Diana met in 1980 and soon began dating. It was only a year before Charles proposed, and in 1981 the couple announced their engagement.
She had been planning to go to Australia with her mother for a long time before that, and I thought, ‘Well, I’ll ask her then so she has a chance to think about it while she’s away and say that I can’t stand the whole idea — or not, depending on the circumstances,’ Charles told the BBC after the announcement.
However, Princess Diana is said to have accepted his proposal immediately.
Charles’ secret note to Diana before the wedding
But even before the engagement, Diana had doubts about marrying Charles.
On the day we announced our engagement, we had a terrible interview,‘ she recounts in the book Diana: In Her Own Words. ’And this ridiculous reporter asked, “Are you in love?”. I thought, what a stupid question.
‘ I replied, “Yes, of course we’re in love,” and Charles turned and said, “Whatever love means.” And that completely threw me off balance. I thought, what a strange answer. It traumatised me.”
The wedding of King Charles and Diana took place on 29 July 1981 at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. It was a day of joy for all the people who gathered to watch the two tie the knot. But something happened to Diana the day before that caused her to panic.
Like anyone else, she was nervous the night before the wedding. That evening, Princess Diana stayed at Clarence House and reportedly received an unexpected gift from Charles. It contained a secret note in which he allegedly made a shocking confession.
The note contained advice for Diana. At the time, she was only 20 years old, while Charles was 12 years older.
Princess Diana was ‘devastated’
Charles sent her a ring with the Prince of Wales’s feathers. The note read: ‘I am so proud of you, and when you rise, I will be at the altar tomorrow. Just look them in the eye and knock them dead,’ according to the Express.
However, Charles is said to have left Diana completely devastated. He made his confession on the eve of the wedding because he ‘did not want to enter into marriage on a false promise.’
According to Princess Diana’s astrologer Penny Thornton, who worked very closely with her, Charles claimed that he did not love her.
‘One of the most shocking things Diana told me was that on the night before the wedding, Charles told her he didn’t love her,’ she said in the ITV documentary The Diana Interview: Revenge Of A Princess, as reported by the Mirror.
“I think Charles didn’t want to go through with the wedding with false intentions. He wanted everything to be by the book, and that was devastating for Diana.
‘At that point, she didn’t want to go to the wedding and was thinking about not attending.’
It was said that around 750 million people around the world watched the wedding of Princess Diana and Charles.
The ‘mistake’ of marrying Princess Diana
But even though the couple looked happy, Charles was not at all sure about it. According to royal author Penny Junor, he believed that marrying Diana was a mistake — but it was too late to cancel it.
‘Charles wasn’t sure he was doing the right thing by marrying Diana, but there was no way out, and, hoping that everything would change once they were married, he put on a brave face,’ she writes.
Just a year after the wedding, Prince William was born. Later, Harry arrived.
In one of her old letters, Diana briefly but beautifully described what William and Harry’s childhood was like. And not only that, but also the special bond between them as children.
Diana’s letter was written in March 1985, just six months after the birth of her youngest son, Harry.
‘William adores his younger brother and showers Harry with endless hugs and kisses, hardly letting his parents near him!’ reads Diana’s handwritten letter, according to The Sun.
Beautiful letters about Harry and William
In other letters, Princess Diana talked about how the then-adult Prince Harry ‘was constantly getting into trouble’ at school. She also wrote about the joys of motherhood and described the ‘difficult period’ in her life that she was about to go through.