the marriage of Prince Charles in the
late Diana of Wales might have looked
like a fairy tale at first but there was
no happily ever after for these Royals
from mutual and fidelity to pressure
from the rest of the royal family let's
look at why the couple couldn't make
their palace a happy home no love lost
when it comes to royal relationships
love isn't always a necessary ingredient
for a marital arrangement diana was of
royal lineage thanks to her status as a
Spencer and Charles needed to marry to
make more heirs to the throne so their
relationship may have been built on
convenience and duty rather than real
romance the pair had only met a dozen
times before announcing their engagement
and what an awkward event that was I'm
amazed that she's did enough to take me
on if it wasn't already clear that their
affection for one another wasn't quite
developed Charles made that very clear
when he said Diana would later admit
that the reason she and Charles felt the
need to get engaged was pressure from
the outside
suffering in silence even if they
weren't burning with passion for one
another on their wedding day Prince
Charles and Lady Diana did get married
before going on to have two sons
together William and Harry but princess
died suffered from the experience of
becoming a mother at first and had to
keep her bout with postpartum depression
quiet she later said I was unwell with
postnatal depression which no one ever
discusses you wake up in the morning
feeling you didn't want to get out of
bed you felt misunderstood and just very
very low in yourself he gave everybody a
wonderful new label
Diana's unstable and Diana's mentally
unbalanced and unfortunately that seems
to have stuck on and off over the years
diana revealed that her depression led
to self-harm cutting her arms and legs
in an effort to rid herself of the
emotional pain she said people see it as
crying wolf or attention-seeking and
they think because you're in the media
all the time that you've got enough
attention but I was actually crying out
because I wanted to get better in order
to go forward and continue my duty and
role as wife mother Princess of Wales
she also suffered from bulimia as a
result of her discontent at home and
that may have been encouraged by her
husband's treatment of her as well
Diana's biographer Andrew Morton told
people I think she slimmed before the
wedding as a result of nerves and then
the whole thing was triggered during her
honeymoon when her husband put his arms
around her and said you are a bit chubby
darling
media pressures even the strongest of
relationships might buckle under the
weight of scrutiny Charles and Diana
experienced during their marriage as the
future of Buckingham Palace the two are
constantly pursued by the media and
Diana lamented the loss of privacy
she later attributed some of their
unhappiness to the endless attention
saying my husband and I we were told
when we got engaged that the media would
go quietly and it didn't and then when
we were married they said it would go
quietly and it didn't and then it
started to focus very much on me and I
seemed to be on the front of a newspaper
every single day which is an isolating
experience she went on to add that much
of the scrutiny was placed on her
shoulders in particular and that she had
a hard time living with me such an
intense spotlight saying it was
difficult to share that load because I
was the one who was always pitched out
front whether it was my clothes what I
said well my hair was doing everything
when actually what we wanted to be what
we wanted support it was our
she would later attempt to retreat from
the spotlight by pleading with the press
to understand and to give me the time
and space that has been lacking in
recent years however the media never
relented even to her dying day breaking
faith Prince Charles no longer has to
hide his relationship with now wife
Camilla parker-bowles but when they
first struck up a romance he was still
very much married to Diana even if it
was just a technicality for both of them
he told the New York Times that he had
been faithful to Diana until it became
irretrievably broken down us both having
tried one of the most damaging royal
scandals emerged when an illegally
obtained phone recording between Charles
and Parker Bowles revealed their
explicit phone conversations at least
one of which Diana overheard well there
was three of us in this marriage so it
was a bit crowded
Diana later revealed that when she
confronted Charles about his continued
romance with Parker Bowles he said
simply well I refuse to be the only
Prince of Wales who never had a mistress
however Charles wasn't the only one who
stepped out during the course of their
union Diana also became intimate with
her bodyguard
very manic eat during their marriage
Manek he was later relieved of his
duties and diana then took up her son's
riding instructor james hewitt with whom
she carried on a five-year romance he
later described their affair by saying
it's a gradual period and then you know
suddenly you can't get enough of each
other or see each other as much as you
want as a result of their dalliance
hewitt was even rumoured to be Prince
Harry's father
thanks to their shared red hair but
their romance didn't begin until two
years after the second Prince was born
so the theory has since been refuted
Charles and Diana eventually announced
their separation but intended to try and
make the marriage work and continue
their duties as a royal couple but just
as they'd experienced pressure from
above to walk down the aisle
they were also subject to the same
forces calling them to officially split
royal decree as a result of their
obvious discord and separation
announcement queen elizabeth ii openly
demanded in separate letters to charles
and diana that the to file for divorce a
statement from the palace explained
after considering the present situation
the Queen wrote to both the prince and
princess earlier this week and gave them
her view supported by the Duke of
Edinburgh that an early divorce is
desirable Queen Elizabeth and Prince
Philip will continue to do all they can
to help and support the Prince and
Princess of Wales and most particularly
their children in this difficult period
shortly thereafter the divorce was
finalized and the rest is history thanks
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