Royal Expert Says This Is When Princess Diana Really Began To Worry Over Camilla And Charles
The love triangle consisting of Princess Diana, Prince Charles, and Camilla Parker Bowles is a particularly messy one, and for years it's caused people across the world to sympathize with Diana. The late Princess of Wales was an everyday woman who found herself living a luxurious fantasy life, but to date, she's the only person involved in this love affair to have died, leaving room for Charles and Camilla to pursue their love wholeheartedly.
According to Town & Country, Charles and Camilla met at a 1970 polo match at Windsor Great Park. Ultimately, as we know, Charles married Diana, but he never stopped pining for Camilla, who herself got married just three years after meeting the prince. In fact, Charles kept a keepsake of their relationship in his diary on his honeymoon.
In 1996, Charles and Diana finalized their divorce, and the next year, Diana died in a fatal car accident. By this time, Camilla was already divorced, too, and in 2005, Charles and Camilla married each other. But just what was the real reason Camilla got divorced, and when did Diana know something was up between her husband and Camilla?
Diana's wedding to Charles became a match of chess
As it turns out, Diana first began worrying about Camilla around the time of her wedding to Charles. Royal commentator Julie Montagu told Us Weekly, "I think the fixation was always there in the back of her mind, but of course, I suspect it really started on the wedding day itself." Montagu then added, "I think the fixation was always there in the back of her mind, but of course, I suspect it really started on the wedding day itself."
What's important to note are the power dynamics here. Though Camilla wasn't a royal herself, she felt like she trumped Diana, who was becoming a royal on that very day, per Montagu's analysis. Still, Diana fought back. "She wanted to make sure that she clocked Camilla in that congregation so that she could feel comforted by the fact that she's at the vicar and Camilla's in a pew," Montagu explained. She wanted Camila to see that she won in the end.
This was the nature of their relationship, and it didn't start at the wedding. Camilla made a "Mean Girls" move at Diana not long after Charles proposed to her, too.
So, what do you think about all of this? Is one of them right, or do they both hold equal ground?