“I said, ‘I love you so much.
The way that the princess remembered things, Charles had a peculiar response to her declaration.
As she told Morton, “And [Charles] said, ‘Whatever love means.'”
That was perhaps Diana’s first clue that something in her relationship was amiss.
And, how could he have been?
At the time of his engagement to Diana, the Prince of Wales had feelings for someone else.
As early as 1972, Charles began to think of Camilla as his soulmate.
AlthoughCharles and Camillatried to hide their love from Di, they never really managed to do so.
The pair simply left too many clues in their wake.
In fact, Camilla played a major role in choosing Diana for Charles.
So Camilla picked Diana to be Charles’s bride and the mother of his children.”
This was especially evident when, five months before the royal wedding, Camilla invited Diana out to lunch.
Interestingly, though, this conversation helped clue Diana in to Camilla’s true intentions.
The young bride felt that Camilla was a bit overly focused on the subject of hunting.
I said: ‘On what?’
She said: ‘Horse.
You are not going to hunt when you go and live at Highgrove are you?'"
To this bizarre question, Diana said that she responded, “No.”
Then, Diana claimed that Camilla replied, somewhat awkwardly, “I just wanted to know.”
Through this interaction, it became clear that Charles and Camilla were more than friends.
King Charles III also exhibited certain behaviors that revealed his affinity for Camilla.
That was nothing to do with him going.
The most awful thing had happened before he went.
I was in his study talking to him about his trip.
Just before he was going for five weeks."
In the end, Diana told Morton that she “left them to it.”
Unfortunately, however, this interaction between Charles and Camilla left Diana feeling vulnerable.
The princess told Morton, “She knew so much about what he was doing privately.”
Shortly before the royal wedding, however, Diana found concrete proof of Charles and Camilla’s relationship.
Apparently, she was promptly warned by a royal staffer, “You shouldn’t look at that.”
Intrigued, Diana said that she opened the package anyways.
“There was the bracelet,” she remembered.
Naturally, this interaction crushed Diana.
At this point, she still hoped that her fiance would be in love with just her.
She told Morton, “I was devastated.”
In fact, shortly after Diana made this discovery, she considered breaking things off with her unfaithful fiance.
And I said, ‘I can’t marry him.
I can’t do this.
This is absolutely unbelievable’" (viaYouTube).
When Diana invited her sisters out to lunch, they tactfully reminded her of her royal responsibilities.
Indeed, by then, Diana’s commitment was not just to Charles it was also to the crown.
As the princess later told Morton, her sisters helped her realize the significance of her position.
Sadly, though, this was hardly the response that Diana was hoping for.
Her fate was essentially sealed.
As all eyes were on Diana, Diana’s eyes were on the future Queen Camilla.
Pale gray hat … You know, vivid memory.
And I thought, ‘Well, there we are.
Let’s hope that’s all over with.'"
Of course, Camilla’s romance with Charles was far from over.
For another, Diana discovered that Charles and Camilla had a deeper relationship than she thought.
After all, she realized that Charles carried photographs of Camilla around with him.
Out comes two pictures of Camilla."
“On our honeymoon, cufflinks arrive on his wrists.
Two C’s entwined like the Chanel C.” Charles confirmed that the cufflinks were from Camilla.
This was particularly clear when Diana realized that Camilla had bought Charles some new cufflinks.
Shocked by the audacity of this present, Diana confronted her husband about it.
He said, ‘Yes, so what’s wrong?
They’re a present from a friend.’
And, boy, did we have a row.
Jealously, total jealousy" (viaYouTube).
Moving forward from that incident, Charles began taking extra steps to hide their relationship.
Perhaps most shockingly, when Charles broke his arm, he asked his staff to track Diana’s location.
This would ensure that the princess wouldn’t appear at the hospital while Camilla was visiting.
When Diana did show up at the party, the atmosphere grew tense.
Things started going downhill when, in the middle of the festivities, Charles and Camilla sneaked off together.
So this disturbs me."
Diana decided to go look for the pair, prompting an immediate reaction from the other party guests.
Essentially, it seemed that everybody understood that Charles and Camilla were together.
Thus, the other guests tried to prevent Diana from looking for the duo.
Diana went on to recall, “So, I make my way to go downstairs for him.
I know what I’m going to confront myself with.
They try and stop me from going downstairs.”
Apparently, she was told, “Diana, don’t go down there.”
However, what she discovered instead was the opportunity to confront her rival.
When Diana did ultimately walk down the stairs, she found Charles and Camilla chatting up another guest.
Diana then decided to take control of the situation.
In her interview with Morton, Diana explained, “I was terrified of her.
By then, however, the jig was up.
Diana was certain about what she knew.
She pressed forward, stating, “I know what’s going on between you and Charles.”
Royal correspondents, in particular, perceived tension in Charles and Diana’s marriage.
Some even wondered about the king’s friendship with Camilla.
He revealed that his job was to quiz the royal correspondents about Charles and Diana’s relationship.
They got the most severe questioning.
Can you be right on this?
Have you got a second source?”
At one point, the media even obtained photographs of the couple on a romantic Mediterranean getaway.
The published recordings were, ultimately, so graphic that Charles’ relationship to Camilla became common knowledge.
At one point he complained that he couldn’t get enough of her: “What about me?
The trouble is I need you several times a week.”
He later added, “Oh, God.
I’ll just live inside your trousers or something.
It would be much easier!”
Apparently, Camilla found this comment hilarious.
Oh, you’re going to come back as a pair of knickers!"
Charles then told his love that he might come back as her Tampax.
From that point forward, nobody doubted that Charles and Camilla were together.
