In Spencer, Diana is horrified (though seemingly unsurprised) to discover her husband gave her the same pearl necklace he gave to his then-mistress, Camilla Parker-Bowles. There's no evidence to suggest this gift-giving snafu ever happened (or that she ate them at the dinner table).
After the confrontation over the bracelet, Charles confirms his affection for Diana and presents her with a gold signet, a ring that bears the crest of the Prince of Wales.
According to Camilla: From Outcast To Future Queen Consort author Angela Levin, Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Diana's grandmother, Lady Fermoy, had a huge part to play in it, as did the fact that Princess Diana was much younger than Camilla and therefore, in theory, more likely to give birth to the heir to the ...
Camilla did attend Charles and Diana's wedding in 1981. However, Princess Diana said that Camilla did not wear white, noting instead that the future queen consort donned a light gray for the occasion. "I knew she was in there, of course.
Naturally, being the nosy parkers that we are, we've done a bit of digging... and it seems that royal biographer, Penny Junor, has confirmed that Charles did indeed give Camilla a bracelet with a 'F' and an 'G' inscribed on it.
Why didn't Camilla wear a tiara when she got married? As she was not married in a church, Camilla did not wear a tiara for her wedding, as most royal brides do. Instead she donned a white hat designed by Philip Treacy for the ceremony, and a gold, feathered headpiece for the blessing.
It has been reported that controversy surrounding the symbolism of the Koh-i-Noor is likely to have contributed to Camilla's decision to exclude the gem from the crown she wears at the coronation.
In Spencer, Diana is horrified (though seemingly unsurprised) to discover her husband gave her the same pearl necklace he gave to his then-mistress, Camilla Parker-Bowles. There's no evidence to suggest this gift-giving snafu ever happened (or that she ate them at the dinner table).
On the day of her wedding, Princess Diana accidentally spilled some Quelques Fleurs perfume on her dress, her makeup artist Barbara Daly revealed in Diana: The Portrait. Diana was quick to tuck the front of her dress in, though, effectively hiding the stain.
Camilla may have been at Diana's wedding but she was not welcome at her funeral, which was watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world. Still, to many her absence echoed around the ancient hall. The Queen made it clear to Charles that he could not take his paramour to the service.
Diana and Camilla might have never had a close friendship, but when Charles and Diana started dating the pair were friendly with each other. At the time Camilla was married to Andrew Parker Bowles and had two children with him.
The government indicated that the marriage was not morganatic. After the engagement announcement, the couple were congratulated by Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh.
In a series of tapes recorded for her 1992 biography, Diana said that she recalled discovering a bracelet which Charles had bought for his longtime lover Camilla Parker Bowles shortly before their wedding. Due to her suspicions she wanted to call off the wedding but was put off the idea by her sisters.
After the princess' death, most of her personal jewelry was inherited by her two sons Princes William and Harry, with pieces loaned to her during her lifetime being returned to Queen Elizabeth II, where they are most likely to have been inherited by King Charles in 2022.
Following Diana's death in August 1997, the sapphire ring was inherited by her son Prince Harry, who eventually offered it to his older brother Prince William before he proposed to Kate Middleton with it in 2010.
The ring reportedly was found in the wreckage of the Mercedes and given to Diana's sisters when they came to Paris to accompany her body back to England.
While it was reported that Diana refused to wear the Chanel logo following her separation with Prince Charles – as the double C reminded her of Charles and his then-mistress Camilla – the royal actually continued wearing the fashion house's designs post-divorce, including on a trip to New York.
Perhaps serendipitously, bluebell is also a fragrance note favoured by Harry's wife, Meghan Markle.
Creasing wasn't the only issue on Diana's wedding day
The Princess of Wales also spilled perfume on her dress right before she walked down the aisle, according to InStyle. Barbara Daly, Diana's makeup artist, tried to clean the mess, but the Houbigant Paris Quelques Fleurs perfume still left a large stain on her gown.
The Wedding of the Century
According to Princess Diana, the couple had only met 13 times, and she has deep reservations after discovering Charles's continuing affection for his former girlfriend Camilla Parker Bowles.
Yet the late Princess is said to have never fully reconciled with Camilla, who was criticised by the press and Diana's supporters – especially when the beloved royal was tragically killed in the famous 1997 car accident.
Diana was initially friendly with Camilla—until she found out about her relationship with Charles. Before that uncomfortable lunch, Camilla and Diana got along relatively well while the princess and Prince Charles were courting in 1980.
At the king's request, no one apart from Charles and Camilla were to wear crowns and tiaras at the coronation on Saturday, 6 May. Instead, the Princess of Wales, as well as her daughter, Princess Charlotte, wore embroidered floral headpieces.
Six months after she married Prince Charles, Camilla had her first major tiara moment at a banquet at Buckingham Palace. There, she sparkled in the swirling Delhi Durbar tiara, borrowed from Queen Elizabeth — only the third time the piece had been seen in public.
Just in Case You're Wondering, Queen Consort Camilla “Definitely” Watches "The Crown" One of King Charles' former communications directors is sure of it.