![]() She has since proved not only a support to Prince Charles, but to William and Harry too, who love their stepmother while still holding the spirit of Diana close. In a gesture of respect to the late Princess, Charles and Camilla waited until 2005 to finally get married themselves, with the Duchess of Cornwall opting not to take on the title, ‘Princess of Wales’. Diana was just a teenager when she met the heir apparent, who was almost 13 years her senior, and their characters weren’t particularly compatible. In the years since, many have acknowledged that to attribute Charles and Diana’s marital problems solely to Camilla is a gross oversimplification. Yet the late Princess is said to have never fully reconciled with Camilla, who was criticised by the press and Diana’s supporters – especially when the beloved royal was tragically killed in the famous 1997 car accident. Indeed it was a year before, in 1994, that Charles admitted adultery in his own bombshell interview with Jonathan Dimbleby, saying that the marriage had ‘irretrievably broken down’.ĭiana’s fractured relationship with Charles is said to have become more good natured after their divorce in 1996, with the two seeking to be amicable co-parents to the young Princes William and Harry. By the time Diana gave her infamous Panorama interview in 1995, telling the BBC’s Martin Bashir, ‘Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded’, the affair had already been speculated about and scrutinised – both behind closed doors and in the press. The two women had little contact from then on, with Charles and Camilla continuing their relationship as his marriage to Diana broke down. Diana recalled that when Camilla asked what more the Princess could want, on top of public adoration and her beautiful children, Diana replied, ‘I want my husband’. It’s there that she confronted Camilla about her suspicions – or at least heavily implied them. Diana recounted to Morton that she turned up unannounced to surprise Charles and his friends at a birthday party for Camilla’s sister, Annabel Elliot, in 1989. By the mid Eighties, however, Diana was sure that Charles had rekindled a relationship with his former girlfriend. Earl Spencer walking Lady Diana Spencer up the aisle – Camilla Parker Bowles is in the fourth row, 1981 Reginald Davis / ShutterstockĬamilla largely steered clear of Diana in the early years of her marriage, with PopSugar reporting that she avoided events where she knew the royal couple would be in attendance.
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