Between Prince Charles and Lady Diana, everything had initially looked like a fairy tale. In the beginning. As the years go by, revelations rain down on this legendary couple, whose love has been thwarted. And Prince Charles is criticized for a number of shortcomings.
“About to have sextuplets“
In CNN’s six-part documentary series, Diana, we learn this week that he would have made fun of his wife, while they were on a royal tour in Vancouver in Canada, in 1986. She had been seized with discomfort, because she had not eaten a lot in the days preceding this event. Aware of his wife’s bulimia and depression, Charles would however have asked her to attend an evening given in their honor to avoid gossip after this health glitch.
During the dinner, William and Harry’s dad reportedly gave a speech where he said with humor: “My wife is feeling a lot better now than she was earlier in the afternoon, and that is all due to the extremely favorable conditions that exist in British Columbia. “ And to add: “The weather and general fertility conditions, which ensured she was about to have sextuplets, is really why she passed out. It’s not really true.”. Of course, Lady Diana was not pregnant, but one should not speak publicly about her eating disorders, since at the time, mental illnesses were still a taboo subject.
“He made cruel jokes“
Royal biographer Sally Bedell-Smith explains, however: “But he went further than that. He made cruel jokes. He showed a lack of empathy. It was an indication that he didn’t care as much, that something had come out of the marriage. “.
The marriage of Wales, which had already started to fall apart was sealed by a breakup and then a divorce, in 1996. A year later, Diana was killed in a car accident in Paris.
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