He sent his son a letter advising him that it was time to make a decision: propose to Diana or let her go. Charles wanted to do the right thing for “this Country and for my family”. He proposed to Diana at Windsor Castle on 6 February 1981.
Did Princess Margaret oppose the marriage of Charles and Diana? In "The Crown": Princess Margaret tries to persuade Charlies not to marry Diana. In real life: There's no evidence that Margaret (or anyone else) was against the marriage of Diana and Charles.
She's spotted crying at Heathrow airport upon his departure—not because she is sad, but because before he left, he had taken a phone call with Camilla Parker Bowles. “It just broke my heart,” she later recalled, according to Diana: In Her Own Words. July 1981: The royal wedding.
"One of the most shocking things that Diana told me was that the night before the wedding, Charles told her that he didn't love her," Thornton said. "I think Charles didn't want to go into the wedding on a false premise. He wanted to square it with her, and it was devastating for Diana."
Before Prince Charles married Princess Diana (then Diana Spencer) in 1981, he was apparently already smitten with his former girlfriend Camilla Parker Bowles (then Camilla Shand).
Camilla wasn't considered a suitable match for the Prince of Wales. Prince Charles and Camilla at a polo match in 1975. Even if Charles had wanted to settle down, he would have encountered those with serious doubts about whether Camilla was an appropriate bride for the heir to the throne.
But throughout Princess Diana and the then Prince of Wales's 20-year odyssey, there were moments of real affection, no matter how fleeting. “We fell in love gradually,” Princess Diana told biographer Andrew Morton. “It wasn't really dramatic. One blink and it would have gone.”
Both Diana and Charles reportedly wanted to call off the wedding. In royal biographer Andrew Morton's Diana In Her Own Words, he wrote that Diana expressed to her sisters the Monday before the wedding that she wanted to call off the nuptials, largely do to the relationship she discovered between him and Camilla.
The Queen thought Diana quite suitable for Charles. “She was very much a hit with the royal family—they really warmed to her,” Chernock says. “Diana worked very, very hard to ingratiate herself and to model what she thought being a princess would entail, and she did it very successfully.”
Hasnat Khan, a Pakistani heart surgeon, and Princess Diana dated for two years, from 1995 to 1997. Diana reportedly described him as the "love of her life" to friends, and introduced him to her sons Prince William and Prince Harry.
Sadly, The Crown is right: Diana's supernova star-power in Australia did make Charles jealous, and caused additional tension in their marriage. In a 1995 interview with the BBC, the Princess recalled that the attention she received during the tour's royal walkabouts upset him.
In public, Charles accepted the revised status quo with good grace; in private he blamed Diana. But there were some notable high points, including Charles and Diana's dance together at a charity ball in Sydney. The public impression of the couple was, at this time, that they were very much in love.
“For her part, Diana was upset by the disproportionate interest in her, especially when she realized that it was disturbing Charles. She collapsed under the strain, weeping to her lady-in-waiting and secretly succumbing to bulimia.” The Princess of Wales at the Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia, 28th March 1983.
Season four of "The Crown" leaves out some details of Princess Diana and Prince Charles' marriage. While the series shows Diana's struggle with bulimia, it excludes details of her suicide attempts. The Netflix show also skips the royal wedding and Diana's confrontation with Camilla Parker Bowles.
Charles and Diana separated publicly I n 1992, and the formal divorce happened three years later in 1995. Although Diana continued to live in the palace, she earned the Queen's displeasure by giving personal interviews to the media. The Queen felt Diana had become a liability to the royal family.
Prince Philip reportedly wrote a series of letters to Diana at this point which “upset and infuriated” the princess. In one, he reportedly told her that her “irrational” behavior and jealousy were to blame for many of her marital problems with Charles.
What were Princess Diana's last words? The firefighter on the scene of Princess Diana's accident revealed the last words she spoke before her death in an interview with The Independent. According to the firefighter, Xavier Gourmelon, the Princess of Wales asked: “My God, what has happened?”
Actors Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, and Tom Hanks were among the mourners at the funeral. Michael famously "bawled his eyes out" at the funeral.
The duke recalls meeting Camilla, whom he and his brother called “the other woman,” for the first time, and notes that it was far from a pleasant experience for him. He described their introduction as an “injection,” for which he had to brace himself.
But the biggest obstacle for Camilla and Charles' relationship was Camilla herself. Camilla did actually seem to love both Charles and Andrew. As Brown wrote, “My own view is that the love of Camilla's life was not Prince Charles but the man she married first—Andrew Parker Bowles …
Prince Charles wasn't allowed to marry Camilla because of her past, and so, instead married Princess Diana.
Although William did travel to Australia and New Zeland, it was not at the demands of Princess Diana, according to Andrew Morton in his biography of the late Princess. Morton wrote in Diana: Her True Story - In Her Own Words, the princess was "all ready to leave William.
And the most crucial factual detail that The Crown snuck into the episode—Charles really did fall off that horse in the polo match.
Charles & Diana Visit Ayers Rock
On-screen, Diana falters, telling Charles she feels dizzy. In reality, according to Vogue, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Diana was just struggling to climb while wearing a dress.