royal family member prince charles has
been at the center of a lot of stories
over the years
and plenty of scandals the future king
most likely has plenty of admirable
qualities but
like the rest of us humans is far from
perfect
here's the shady side of the prince of
wales
while they weren't exactly romeo and
juliet prince charles and his now-wife
camilla parker-bowles could be called
once
star-crossed lovers according to people
magazine
when the two met in the early 1970s
camilla allegedly told
charles my great-grandmother was the
mistress of your great great grandfather
i feel we have something in common
following in their ancestors footsteps
they began a relationship unfortunately
happily ever after wasn't in the cards
just yet it was widely reported that
camilla was still hung up on her ex
and drew parker bulls and while charles
was reportedly smitten with camilla he
was young and perhaps not yet in a rush
to get married
while the prince was deployed for
several months with the royal navy
camilla got back together with andrew
and married him in battle of brothers
william and terry
author robert lacy wrote charles
realized for sure that he wanted to
marry camilla that she was his life's
soulmate
but he did not have the courage to tell
her properly or strongly enough
one possible reason for his hesitation
camilla's so-called commoner blood and
reputation for partying and she
apparently wasn't quote
virginal enough for the future king
according to usa today
numerous royal biographers maintained
that charles broke things off with
camilla because he knew that his family
would never
approve sometimes keeping it all in the
family really is an accurate saying when
it comes to the romantic lives of royals
a time article from 1981 declared that
prince charles was diana's 16th cousin
once removed
while this tidbit is impossible to
verify we do know for certain that
before he married diana spencer the
prince of wales
dated her older sister lady sarah
spencer was the eldest of the four
spencer children
and six years older than her sister
diana she and charles dated for a short
time but things ended after sarah was
quoted in a 1978 time profile of charles
saying there is no chance of my marrying
him charles
i'm not in love with him in their
televised engagement interview
diana said the two first met when
charles came to the spencer house as a
friend of her sisters
in 1977. no one knows for sure how sarah
actually felt about the couple
or if it affected her relationship with
diana nevertheless
she did brag to the guardian i
introduced them i'm cupid
the 32 year old prince began dating 19
year old diana
in 1980 and after only six short months
they were engaged unlike camilla diana
was considered to be suitable wife
material for the future king
the spencers were a respected
aristocratic family and diana had no
past dating history
and yet the two were essentially still
acquaintances when the prince popped the
question in 1981.
in the documentary diana in her own
words the princess of wales admitted
we met 13 times and we got married
during a time of record unemployment and
civil unrest
great britain was as the documentary put
it ready for a fairy tale
the public couldn't get enough of the
newly engaged couple and eagerly
followed their
every move so when prince charles and
diana filmed an engagement interview
thousands of brits tuned in to hear what
the future king and queen had to say
during the interview both charles and
diana were complimentary of each other
but things took a cringe-worthy turn
when the interviewer asked if the couple
was in love
the future princess promptly responded
of course but her beau answered
whatever in love means yikes diana later
admitted that his answer had quote
traumatized her decades after this
seemingly heartless remark
biographer sally smith defended the
prince and told people magazine
he often ruminated philosophically about
the meaning of life
and big subjects and his answer should
be taken
in that light the duke of cornwall
apparently never stopped loving camilla
but there were other issues between
prince charles and princess diana that
cropped up before the couple said i do
the two hardly knew one another and one
royal biographer claims to know why the
prince rushed into an engagement
in prince charles the passions and
paradoxes of an improbable life
sally smith wrote that charles felt
pressured by his family and a sense of
duty to propose
despite the couple's age and personality
differences
another royal biographer who spent years
speaking with members of the prince's
inner circle has alleged that charles
quickly realized that the engagement was
a mistake
in charles at 70 thoughts hopes and
dreams
robert jobson wrote charles was deeply
unsure of diana's suitability as his
wife at the time
and after a few meetings believed they
were totally incompatible
despite wanting to call off the wedding
charles didn't want to ruin diana's
reputation and felt responsible for the
media frenzy that had engulfed the young
nanny the prince was also concerned for
his own reputation and what his family
would say
the biographer wrote that charles later
told a friend to have withdrawn
as you can no doubt imagine would have
been cataclysmic
hence i was permanently between the
devil and the deep blue sea
in the months leading up to the royal
wedding diana was well aware of her
fiance's still-burning passion for
camilla
the princess of wales confided in
biographer andrew morton that she had
discovered a custom-made piece of
jewelry in the office of prince
charles's personal secretary
morton wrote she found a gold bracelet
from asprays with a lapis pendant
engraved with the letters f and g which
were said to stand for fred
and gladys charles and camilla's pet
names for each other
justifiably devastated and enraged diana
confronted an
unrepentant charles the princess also
told morton
charles insisted on hand delivering the
sentimental present
to camilla just two days before his july
1981 wedding
charles apparently hurt his new bride
with monogrammed jewelry
again on their honeymoon in a taped
recording for morton's book
diana claimed that after she found two
pictures of camilla in charles's diary
she noticed the cufflinks he was wearing
she explained
two seas entwined like the chanel sea
got it in one
knew exactly so i said camilla gave you
those didn't she
he said yes so what's wrong they're a
present from a friend
no one in the public knows if prince
charles ever stopped seeing camilla
romantically but the prince himself
insisted in a 1994 interview that he was
completely faithful to princess diana
until the marriage had become quote
irretrievably broken down
but diana's statement to bbc journalist
martin beshear in 1995 suggested that
perhaps charles's relationship with
camilla was an issue from the start
when asked if camilla was quote a factor
in the breakdown of their marriage
diana famously responded well there were
three of us
in this marriage so it was a bit crowded
various media outlets have reported that
charles and camilla officially rekindled
their love affair in 1986
in diana in her own words the princess
of wales discussed how she finally
confronted camilla about the affair
diana pulled camilla aside one day in
1989
and said i know what's going on between
you and charles
and i just want you to know that diana
went on to say that camilla didn't deny
her accusation but instead told the
princess
you've got everything you ever wanted
what more do you want
diana's reply was heartbreaking she said
i want my husband
i'm sorry i'm in the way i obviously am
in the way and it must be hell for both
of you
but i do know what's going on don't
treat me like an idiot
the princess of wales famously struggled
with bulimia during her tumultuous
marriage
during her 1995 bbc interview princess
diana admitted
you inflicted upon yourself because you
don't think you're worthy or valuable
it was a symptom of what was going on in
my marriage i was crying out for help
when diana her true story was first
published readers learned that diana's
bulimia actually began before she walked
down the aisle the princess was already
feeling overwhelmed and increasingly
stressed when an insensitive comment
from charles pushed her towards
self-destruction
diana revealed the bulimia started the
week after we got engaged
my husband put his hand on my waistline
and said something like
oh a bit chubby here aren't we and that
triggered off something in me
charles has never publicly commented on
diana's accusation
and many in the public sphere viewed
charles as cold
and lacking empathy but biographer sally
smith wrote
charles was sympathetic he did try to
find psychiatrists for her at the
beginning
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when prince charles and princess diana
married she was undoubtedly the more
popular royal
the prince was seen as out of touch
while diana appeared glamorous
warm and down to earth when the couple
traveled to australia
and new zealand in 1983 diana outshined
her husband and
won thousands of new adoring fans in
diana in her own words
the princess of wales related how the
comments from fans in the crowd
affected the prince diana claimed people
said
we want to see her we don't want to see
him and obviously he wasn't used to that
he took it out on me he was jealous
charles was obviously aware of the
crowd's preference for his wife
and attempted a self-deprecating joke at
a banquet in new zealand
the prince stated i've come to the
conclusion that really
it would have been far easier to have
had two wives to have covered both sides
of the street
and i could have walked down the middle
directing the operation
later in the documentary diana stated
that charles's jealousy never went away
after their first royal tour she
admitted there was immense jealousy
cause every single day
i was on the front of the newspapers a
few months
after the prince's separation from
princess diana was announced in 1993
a secretly taped phone conversation was
released the six-minute call from the
year 1989
featured prince charles speaking
intimately with camilla who was also
still married at the time
the illicit lovers used the pet name
darling repeatedly and spoke about how
much they missed one another
the tape gave the princess of wales even
more public sympathy
the los angeles times noted some
editorialists said the tape indicated
that charles had been cheating on diana
throughout their 11-year marriage
while evidence of a long-standing affair
was plenty damaging camillagate injured
the prince's reputation for another
sordid reason
camilla and charles made vulgar jokes
with one another that left the public
shocked diana's former bodyguard wrote
in his book
guarding diana protecting the princess
around the world
the backlash was savage establishment
figures normally loyal to the future
king and country were appalled
and some questioned the prince's
suitability to rule
in the most talked about interview of
2021 prince harry and his wife meghan
markle dropped bombshell after bombshell
about the royal family to oprah winfrey
i've got to do something for my own
mental health my wife's
um and for archie's as well because i
could see where this was headed
while the couple spoke warmly of queen
elizabeth prince charles didn't fare as
well
harry hinted that his father was jealous
of megan telling winfrey that megan's
success
and popularity in her first official
tour quote brought back
memories when winfrey asked if he was
referring to jealousy
harry responded i just wish that we
would all learn from the past
i will not be bullied into into into
playing a game that killed my mum
things went from bad to worse between
father and son
harry revealed that prince charles
stopped taking his phone calls for a
while
he told winfrey there's a lot to work
through there i feel really let down
because he's been through something
similar he knows what pain feels like
even so harry did say that he will
always love his father
a source told vanity fair that charles
opted not to watch the interview but is
apparently at a loss
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