She was frustrated that she had not intervened to end Prince Charles's relationship with
Diana's relationship with the queen was initially friendly.
The Spencers were an upper-class family with longstanding ties to the royals—Diana's grandmothers were both ladies-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother—so Diana and her sisters grew up in the same circles as Charles and his siblings.
“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.
Queen Consort Camilla 'Wasn't Aristocratic Enough'
Junor also said that the royal family – in particular, Charles' great-uncle and surrogate father, Lord Mountbatten – didn't think she was "aristocratic" enough to be a princess.
A friend of the Queen's told Kay that "she felt the pretty girl was a misfit who didn't quite contribute to the things they did and what they wanted her to do in the family. "There was no real compatibility. Initially she was sympathetic, but later on I don't think she felt sorry for her, not really."
"It was indeed dreadfully sad, and she is a huge loss to the country," the queen wrote.
Instead, she gave a lazy salute to the casket. that has been compared to shooting away a fly. According to royal experts, Princess Margaret felt as though Princess. Diana had turned her back on the royal family.
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.
In the words of Camilla's former brother-in-law, Richard Parker Bowles, “[Camilla] initially encouraged the relationship between Charles and Diana because she thought Diana was gormless… Camilla knew that as a woman with a past she could never be accepted as Charles' wife.
It's almost as if Charles had accepted that if he couldn't marry Camilla (who had been married to Andrew Parker Bowles since 1973), he wouldn't be happy no matter who he married, and so just went along with what his father thought was good for him and his country.
Sadly, The Crown is right: Diana's supernova star-power in Australia did make Charles jealous, and caused additional tension in their marriage.
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 had a difficult relationship with her mother when she was younger, and as an adult, Diana and her mother had a falling out. Things really seemed to go south after Diana and Charles' wedding, however.
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.
After marrying the prince, Diana kept her distance from her mother-in-law. She found the queen personable but terrifying. Tensions emerged between Diana and the royal family, including the queen, when their marriage hit romantic and then tabloid troubles. The relationship worsened as Diana suffered from bulimia.
The Royal Family's response
The Queen's first public address came five days after Diana's death. “I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being,” she said in a speech broadcast to the nation.
"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."
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.”
Camilla was also seen as "earthy," which could mean "wholesome," or more likely could just be a synonym for "common," since she wasn't the daughter of a titled family (unlike Diana, the daughter of an earl). So Camilla was seen as something of an early test run relationship for Charles, but not someone he would marry.
She probably wore it purely because she liked it. "Given it was both Charles and Camilla's second marriages, there are usually less strict rules about those sorts of things!"
Katie Couric has revealed why she broke down in tears while covering Princess Diana\x27s funeral. Couric was struck by an envelope with \\\x22Mummy\\\x22 ... Yes, Prince Harry and Prince William both cried at their mother, Princess Diana\x27s, funeral.
Reports in the British press say Camilla had little desire to attend the ceremony from the very start, but was persuaded by her husband that, as his wife and stepmother to his sons, she should be at his side. But a negative public backlash changed her mind, some British newspapers reported.
The blue, Saville Row suit he chose was actually a symbol of respect for his ex-wife rather than one of disrespect. The suit was Diana's favourite according to royal author Brian Hoey who, in 1997, said that she had even helped the Prince choose it.
Queen Elizabeth II bowed to Princess Diana's casket in 1997 - The Washington Post.
Why was Princess Margaret cremated? In the aftermath of her death, “royal watchers” told The New York Times that Princess Margaret had opted to be cremated so that her remains could fit alongside her father King George VI's grave in a vault that was made especially to hold him specifically.