Diana was just 20 years old at the time, and mistakenly called Prince Charles “Philip”, referring to his middle name. The gaffe was explored in an unearthed BBC analysis, published in 1981, shortly after the ceremony.
She just turned 20. People used to call her "Shy Di," because she kept her head down when she talked to you. But there was nothing shy about her," he told the outlet.
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.
In the Bashir interview, Princess Diana went so far as to name the royal family as those who didn't want her to become queen, saying they saw her as a "non-starter."
Did the Queen like Princess Diana? After marrying Charles, Diana's relationship with the Queen was said to be "second to none" and she even – supposedly – called the Queen "mama" at times. "That was Diana's purpose in life," said former royal protection officer Ken Wharfe.
During the course of their romantic relationship, much of which was allegedly during Charles' marriage to Diana, the couple regularly referred to each other using pet names they had. According to Town & Country magazine, they called each other “Fred” and “Gladys” for years.
Diana called Camilla 'Rottweiler' in private for two reasons. One because she said Camilla resembled a dog and second because according to Diana, 'If Camilla set her teeth in something she wouldn't take those off.
At the time of her death, Diana's relationships with members of the royal family, including the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, were reported to be strained, with Russell writing that Margaret referred to the princess as "the girl who married my nephew."
“Both she and Charles referred to Willam as Wombat when he was much younger. It was given to him by Diana”, Mr Rae said.
While Prince William calls Kate 'Duchess of Dolittle', she calls him 'Big Willy' and 'Baldy'.
He told me he was terrified the first night he stayed in Kensington Palace, relieved at least that Charles and Diana had separate bedrooms. Apparently, she had 30 childhood cuddly toys lining the end of her bed."
On 22 February, Buckingham Palace announced that the Queen would not attend the wedding ceremony, but would attend the church blessing and host the reception afterwards. The reason stated by the palace was the couple wanted to keep the occasion low key.
According to Camilla: From Outcast To Future Queen Consort author Angela Levin, Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Diana's grandmother, Lady Fermoy, had a huge part to play in it, as did the fact that Princess Diana was much younger than Camilla and therefore, in theory, more likely to give birth to the heir to the ...
“Camilla has been heard using the [latter] nickname … which [is a take on the word for] 'my beloved' in Urdu, for Charles on a number of occasions, including back in February when she was giving a speech at the British Museum,” he continued.
Gary, or Gan-Gan
According to royal correspondent Richard Kay, Prince William was encouraged to call her Granny as a child, but he couldn't quite get the hang of it. What he could manage, was Gary. Kay said: "On another occasion, the Queen was on hand after William fell over at Buckingham Palace, bawling: 'Gary, Gary'.
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.”
In a new interview clip promoting the publication of his autobiography Spare, Prince Harry recounts how he and Prince William were unable to show any emotion as they met mourners in public. He told ITV's Tom Bradby he had cried when his mother was buried.
Part of the property that fell into William and Harry's possession after their mother's death was her wedding dress. The David and Elizabeth Emanuel-designed gown, whose 25-foot-long train remains the longest in British royal wedding history, was passed down to the princes as part of her will.
Popularly known as "Kate" — and most widely searched online as Kate Middleton — the new Princess of Wales prefers to go by Catherine. As the crown shifts, PEOPLE plans to refer to the royal as Princess Catherine and the Princess of Wales.
Margaret had not forgiven Diana for her perceived betrayal even by the time of her funeral in 1997, with Morton writing in Town & Country, 'She never forgave Diana for what she saw as her betrayal of the royal family, not even in death. '
“He then let out a cry of pain was that so spontaneous and came from the heart,” Andersen further shared, also citing one witness describing it as a 'howl of anguish'. “Palace staff rushed over to Charles' room and found him collapsed in an armchair, weeping uncontrollably,” the royal author also shared.
As TIME pointed out, the royal family had been cool towards Diana even before her divorce from Charles, due to the attention she attracted from the tabloids. While the precise reasons for the coolness are “still ultimately a matter of speculation,” Lacey says, “there was no doubt it was there.
Camilla may have been at Diana's wedding but she was not welcome at her funeral, which was watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world. Still, to many her absence echoed around the ancient hall. The Queen made it clear to Charles that he could not take his paramour to the service.
However, Diana dubbed Camilla "the Rottweiler" and blamed her for the break-up. As her relationship with Charles collapsed, she remarked in a 1995 TV interview: "There were three of us in this marriage - so it was a bit crowded."
Then, when she married Prince Charles in 2005, she took on the title the Duchess of Cornwall. The reason she was not known as the Princess of Wales was out of respect for the late Princess Diana.