Princess Diana’s Troubled Marriage With King Charles: Why Did the Royal Couple Give Up and Go Through Divorce?
One of the most dramatic and tragic splits in the royal family is between Princess Diana and Prince Charles who’s now the King of the United Kingdom. The former couple’s marriage was a complete uphill battle, resulting in suffering and eventually divorce.
However, there didn’t exist just one reason behind their split, but many. The mismatched couple’s relationship was surrounded by media scrutiny, marital issues, royal pressures, and different interests that did not let their marriage survive. Things turned uglier when Princess Diana discovered King Charles’ (then Prince) affair with Camilla Parker Bowles (now his wife), followed by the Princess of Wales’ love relationship with a former British Army major James Hewitt.
Why Did Princess Diana and Her Former Husband King Charles’ Marriage Couldn’t Survive?
One of the most controversial questions about the United Kingdom’s royal family is the split between Princess Diana and her former husband King Charles (then Prince). Their relationship was filled with pressure, conflicts, and the major cause: diminishing love. The Princess and Prince of Wales gradually fell in love only to discover the tragic end of their marriage.
According to Vanity Fair, Princess Diana told biographer Andrew Morton about falling in love with her husband gradually and said:
“We fell in love gradually. It wasn’t really dramatic. One blink and it would have gone.”
The story of Princess Diana’s split from her husband was initiated when the former couple first met in 1977. While Prince Charles was a 29-year-old charming man, he met a sixteen-year-old Lady Diana Spencer at her ancestral home. Years after their first meeting, the Princess and Prince fell in love in 1980, followed by their engagement the very next year in February. Months after the infamous engagement, Princess Diana and Prince Charles walked down the aisle at St. Paul Cathedral.
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The former royal couple then welcomed their two sons Prince William and Harry during the years, and it was in 1984 when Prince Charles’s former girlfriend Camilla Parker Bowles returned to their lives. After discovering that her husband still had affection for Bowles and that they had resumed their affair. Following the Prince’s love relationship, it was reported that the Princess of Wales fell in love with a former British Army major James Hewitt.
The Startling Announcement of Princess Diana and Prince Charles’s Divorce
Before the former royal couple parted ways, Princess Diana confronted Camilla Parker Bowles, at a birthday party where the Princess ended her talk with his husband’s lover by stating that “I want my husband”. However, the two eventually found love in different people, leading toward a dramatic married life. In 1992, Diana: Her True Story was published which was filled with bombshell revelations about the royal family and Prince Charles’ behavior toward his wife.
The biography of the Princess of Wales not only depicted her troubled marriage and Prince Charles’ extramarital affair but also revealed that she had suicidal thoughts due to isolation and lack of love. Prince Charles then admitted to cheating on his wife in 1994, followed by the Princess disclosing in 1995, that Camilla Parker Bowles was involved in their marriage calling it “crowded”. Finally, in 1996, the couple agreed to call it quits, moving from each other to find peace.
However, the very next year, the whole world received a major shock that Princess Diana was no more. She couldn’t survive due to severe injuries sustained after her car crashed at the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris, France. The Prince was highly devasted by his former wife’s death, and to honor her at the funeral, the Prince wore a navy suit as the Princess of Wales always preferred it.
