The Airing of Royal Laundry by Charles and Diana
From the start, the relationship between Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales had been strained, but after the couple separated in 1992, Charles and Diana began to publicly trade barbs about one another’s infidelities. Diana famously told an astounding global audience that “there were three in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.” The ugliness ended abruptly in 1997 when Diana was in a fatal car crash in Paris. Charles went on to marry Camilla Parker Bowles, the “third” in the marriage of whom Diana spoke. But how did this all start?
Diana was 19 when she got engaged to Prince Charles in 1981. Camilla was 33 at the time, and married to Andrew-Parker Bowles. The prince was 32. According to Diana, “We [Diana and Charles] always had discussions about Camilla though,” she added. “I once heard him on the telephone in his bath on his hand-held set saying: ‘Whatever happens, I will always love you.’ I told him afterward that I had listened at the door and we had a filthy row.” The affair is something Charles admitted to in 1994, saying in an interview that he had remained faithful until the relationship with Diana “became irretrievably broken down, us both having tried.”
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