all too often people who are married
will look back at moments throughout
their union with some regret even
members of the royal family does prince
charles have any regrets over his time
with diana keep watching to find out in
september of 1980 according to a
relationship timeline vogue created the
press caught their first taste of prince
charles and diana and they were
immediately hooked charles it seemed was
also hooked on diana in february of 1981
after only 12 or 13 dates he proposed to
her at windsor castle even then the
media's appetite for the couple and
diana especially was insatiable but as
the press followed her closely to the
point she had to be moved from her
apartment to clarence house charles
retreated following their engagement he
spent five weeks in new zealand making
time first for camilla parker bowles
photographers caught diana crying as the
prince left heathrow airport at the time
this was written off as a touching
gesture from the prince's new fiancee
but they were actually tears of
heartbreak just a few years later in
1986 prince charles admitted to
restarting his romantic relationship
with camilla parker bowles according to
ap in a letter to a friend charles wrote
how awful incompatibility is and how
dreadfully destructive it can be for the
players in this extraordinary drama it
has all the ingredients of a greek
tragedy he goes on to admit that he
never imagined things would end the way
they had but diana's death may have
changed the way the prince felt about
her any chance for prince charles and
princess diana to reconcile was taken
away in the summer of 1997. on august
31st 1997 just one year after being
officially divorced princess diana was
killed as a result of a car accident
during an attempt to get away from the
paparazzi henri paul diana's driver is
said to have been driving recklessly
fast before he crashed the car in
paris's pond de la ma tunnel diana had
been running from the paparazzi
throughout her entire relationship with
the prince but never was able to escape
them the princess's death shook the
entire royal family but prince charles
especially matt robbins a royal expert
and producer of cnn's six-part
documentary series diana told us weekly
in an interview i see him as somebody
who carried an enormous burden through
princess diana's death and her funeral
somebody who has to make impossible
decisions one of those decisions was to
have prince william and prince harry
then aged 15 and 12
walk in their mother's funeral
procession while he criticized the
decision in an interview with newsweek
prince harry told bbc that in retrospect
he thought his father had made the right
decision and the best decision he could
given the circumstances robbins told us
weekly he believed the funeral was the
moment prince charles and the rest of
the royal family realized how much the
public cared not just for diana but for
them as well i just want to be here
and i want her family to know that how
much do people care according to royal
sources prince charles had been changing
his mind about diana before her death
princess diana too was allegedly
regretting her divorce from the prince
tina brown royal biographer and author
of the diana chronicles told the
telegraph at the end of diana's life she
and charles were on the best terms
they'd been for a very long time it was
even reported that charles would quote
drop in on diana at her apartments at
kensington palace brown added they even
had some laughs together princess diana
was reportedly heartbroken when she and
prince charles did finally separate and
divorce despite her own relationship
with captain james hewitt she even
allegedly told brown that if charles
wanted her back she'd return without
hesitation so why the change diana had
come to terms with the fact that camilla
parker bowles was as brown explained the
love of his life and there was just
nothing she could do about it even with
the prince's strong feelings for camilla
there was no denying the connection he
and diana shared simone simmons a friend
of diana's told the daily mail that
charles and diana were close friends
following the divorce because quote she
understood him according to simmons it
wasn't until her death that charles even
realized his love for her camilla may be
the love of charles's life but there's
no denying the hole left in the prince's
heart after diana's death