This is perhaps one of the most famous love triangles in history: between Prince Charles, Lady Diana and Camilla Parker Bowles, nothing was ever easy! Married to the first after an arranged meeting, the son of the queen has indeed never forgotten the second, his love of youth remained his mistress during the twelve years that his marriage lasted.
A very secret adulterous affair, which nobody talks about in public as the Parker-Bowles family is fussy about the subject: at the slightest paper without proof, a defamation lawsuit is brought. But there is one that is not mistaken: Diana is sure of herself, she knows that the two of them are having an affair for several years and wants to use it against her husband for the divorce she is preparing in secret. She is therefore looking for discreet evidence, according to biographer Andrew Morton, who was preparing at the time to write a book about her, with her. The famous Diana told by herselfreleased in 1992, the year Lady Di and Prince Charles divorced.
And during the summer of 1991, while on vacation at the Scottish family estate at Balmoral, she came across the evidence she was looking for: letters exchanged between her husband and Camilla, in which the latter recounts their appointments. you inflamed in friends who cover them, but also talks about Diana. From the letters featured in Andrew Morton’s new book, Diana, in pursuit of love published on August 18 by l’Archipel editions.
And the terms are not flattering: in her missives, Camilla asks Charles to stop feeling guilty after the “attacks of this stupid creature“, a term to designate Diana. To speak of her husband, hardly more sympathetic, she will speak of “stuffed weasel“about her husband, wishing he had been stuffed!
Shocked to read that the two lovers spent “magical nights” at their friends in common, to read the words of love that the young woman “irretrievably infatuated” sends to her husband and all the most daring details, Diana would eventually file for divorce in 1992 and by unpacking everything on television, also admitting to several liaisons on his side. A divorce that suits Prince Charles well: finally being able to assume his love affair with Camilla, he will end up marrying her in 2005.
Diana, meanwhile, lives a true love affair with a surgeon Hasnat Khan, who ends up breaking up with her when their romance becomes publicized. To recover from her broken heart and make him jealous, she begins an affair with Dodi Al-Fayed and will end her life with him: twenty-five years ago, on August 31, 1997, the two lovers, pursued by the paparazzi, die in a serious car accident under the Alma bridge in Paris. A death that traumatized his sons, William and Harry, now adults, married and fathers.