"Diana was seated next to Charles on a bale of hay and, after the usual pleasantries, the conversation moved on to Earl Mountbatten's death and his funeral at Westminster Abbey," Morton wrote. but I had nothing to go by, because I'd never had a boyfriend."Īccording to the Express, royal biographer Andrew Morton detailed the story of Charles and Diana's reconnection in his book Diana: Her True Story-in Her Own Words.
"The next minute he leapt on me, practically," Diana continued in the tape recordings. I said it would be nice to see him." Diana's candid revelations were recorded in 1992 by her voice coach, Peter Settelen, and were aired as part of the PBS documentary Diana: In Her Own Words, per ABC News. However, it wasn't until they reunited at the New Grove house of Philip de Pass, a friend of Diana's, in the summer of 1980 that their romance began.ĭiana would later reveal on tape, "He'd just broken up with his girlfriend, and his friend Mountbatten had just been killed. YouTube Icon YouTube Icon July 1980: Sparks fly between Diana and Charles.Īfter their first meeting, Diana crossed paths with the now king on several occasions, even attending his 30th birthday at Buckingham Palace in November 1978, per History Extra.
At the time, she was 16 and he was 29, per The Telegraph.ĭuring their official engagement interview in 1981, Diana revealed, "We sort of met in a plowed field," before calling the prince "pretty amazing."Ĭharles joked, "I remember thinking what a very jolly and amusing and attractive 16-year-old she was." Diana and Charles were introduced in November 1977 at her family home at Althorp, where the prince was taking part in a grouse hunt. When Prince Charles first met Diana Spencer, he was casually dating her sister, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, née Spencer.
November 1977: Charles first meets Diana. The latest season of Netflix's The Crown (an overall fictional but at times eerily accurate portrayal of the ongoings of the House of the Windsor) portrays the dissolution of Charles and Diana's doomed marriage.Īhead, we're breaking down everything you need to know about Charles and Diana's relationship, from endearing courtship to eventual split. In fact, it was a tumultuous time littered with secrets and affairs. But as candid interviews and tell-alls would later reveal, their marriage was less than idyllic. Princess Diana and Prince Charles's love story seemed like a fairy tale in the beginning.
0 kommentar(er)
