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Some might say it was obvious that King Charles III andPrincess Dianawere destined to part ways.
After all, Charles' affair with Camilla, Queen Consort, wasn’t exactly a secret.
Charles and Camilla first met at a polo match long before Diana was in the picture.
Camilla was dating her first husband, Andrew Parker Bowles, at the time.
“My great-grandmother was the mistress of your great-great-grandfather.
There was an unspoken rule that suggested royal men were not to marry women with a romantic history.
Thus, Charles married Diana while his feelings for Camilla never faded.
This was only one of the couple’s many red flags.
Here are the signs King Charles and Princess Diana weren’t going to last.
She toldUs Weeklythe relationship was “almost like a business transaction.”
This might explain why Diana and Charles married so soon after they began dating.
“It was so brief,” Holmes said of their courtship.
It was sort of like a formality, almost.”
“Yes, she did hate Charles,” he claimed.
“And when I said ‘were there ever happy times?’
she said ‘no, the marriage was hell from day one.”
Turns out, their families apparently played a significant role in their courtship.
“Their marriage was essentially arranged,” she claimed.
It wasn’t so long ago that it was kind of the norm even in the UK."
Khan also spoke about Charles and Diana’s marriage during an appearance on “Lorraine” (viaNewsweek).
When asked if the former couple was in fact arranged, she did not mince words.
“Pretty much,” Khan said.
The royal family used to pretty much always have arranged marriages.
And it’s still the majority in the world."
The feeling may have been mutual.
“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.”
Thornton went on to suggest that Diana and King Charles III’s wedding almost didn’t happen.
So, why didn’t they call it off then and there?
Supposedly, it wasn’t their call to make.
you might’t string a … young girl [along]," royal biographer Ingrid Seward toldUs Weekly.
“She’s only 19. you could’t string her along.'”
The king recalled his first impression of his soon-to-be bride during their infamous engagementinterview.
“I mean, great fun, and bouncy and full of life and everything.”
Brown said the pair apparently first crossed paths when a 5-year-old Diana was playing with Prince Andrew.
The couple’s families had actually been intertwined for years before they began dating.
In fact, Charles had a short-lived relationship with Diana’s sister, Sarah Spencer.
However, he and the late princess did not begin dating until years after he and her sister split.
Diana went on to share that Charles eventually kissed her.
They raised red flags even shortly after their engagement and we mean right after the engagement.
When the interviewer asked if the pair were in love, Diana responded, “Of course.”
Meanwhile, Charles said, “Whatever in love means.”
As you might imagine, Diana wasn’t happy with her then-fiance’s response.
“And this ridiculous [reporter] said, ‘Are you in love?’
I thought, what a thick question.
And that threw me completely.
I thought, what a strange answer.
It traumatized me.”
Diana wasn’t alone in her reaction to Charles’ shocking statement.
“Even if he didn’t love her, he didn’t have to be so cruel to her.
She seemed like such a kind soul,” one user wrote in part.
The couple’s “second honeymoon” was reportedly an even more significant source of controversy.
Diana and Charles set out on what should have been a romantic trip through Italy in 1991.
Unfortunately, it’s believed that the couple spent much of the vacation arguing.
This was depicted in Season 5 of “The Crown” in 2022.
He even admitted to having an affair with Camilla during aninterviewwith reporter Jonathan Dimbleby.
When asked if he had been faithful to Diana, Charles responded, “Yes.
Until it became irretrievably broken down, us both having tried.”
Diana was also unfaithful while married to Charles.
She and army captain James Hewitt had a years-long affair.
That doesn’t stop the retired army officer from speaking about Diana in interviews, though.
And she would probably put a joke in somewhere a practical joke certainly."
He also spoke about Diana’s infidelity.
“If Charles hadn’t cheated, Diana wouldn’t have,” Hewitt quipped.
The late monarch reportedly penned a letter asking Diana to move forward with a divorce.
Diana reportedly wasn’t happy about the queen’s letter.
According to Mirror, she told her butler, “That’s rich!
They get to decide whether I divorce!”
Diana and Charles later finalized their divorcein 1996.
It seems that everyone was on board with the split including Queen Elizabeth II herself.
However, Diana’s feelings about the divorce were a bit more complicated.
… We could see what the public were requiring.
They wanted clarity of a situation that was obviously becoming intolerable."
She went on to reveal that Charles initiated the divorce.
The princess was known for her eye-catching looks many of which are still being revisited decades later.
“She didn’t have to say anything with words.
It was a fashion response that dress became her clear message to Charles and the world.”
Princess Diana was open about her struggle with bulimia.
This level of transparency was unheard of for a royal at the time.
Diana shared the details of her experience with the eating disorder during her bombshellBBCinterview with Martin Bashir in 1995.
“I had bulimia for a number of years,” the princess said.
“And that’s like a secret disease.
If you need help with an eating disorder, or know someone who is, help is available.
