Within hours of Diana's shock death, Prince Charles was in Paris to ensure that his ex-wife's body was brought back to the UK at the earliest possible opportunity.
“Palace staff rushed over to Charles' room and found him collapsed in an armchair, weeping uncontrollably,” the royal author also shared. Andersen went on to state: “I don't think people realize how really stricken he was by her death.
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.
Charles and Diana split their time between Kensington Palace and their country estate, Highgrove House.
The Queen, Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Princes William and Harry were at Balmoral Castle in Scotland when Diana was killed.
She's spotted crying at Heathrow airport upon his departure—not because she is sad, but because before he left, he had taken a phone call with Camilla Parker Bowles. “It just broke my heart,” she later recalled, according to Diana: In Her Own Words.
She was said to be on good terms with Charles before her death. According to Tina Brown's book "The Diana Chronicles," released in 2008, the couple had become friends after the divorce, though Diana was said to have still had feelings for the prince. The claim has never been officially confirmed.
After her marriage to King Charles III, Diana moved into Apartment 9 where they raised their sons, William and Harry. William and Kate now use the residences for office space and entertaining professionally for their various charities.
The Earl remembered a special day
Princess Diana's brother Charles Spencer shared a special video which saw him visiting the site of his late sister's grave on Friday, on what would have been her 61st birthday.
Answer: If Diana were still alive, Charles could remarry, because they were legally divorced.
In The Crown this season, the two women even meet up for lunch after the big engagement. But did this really happen in real life? According to Andrew Morton's biography, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words, written with his subject's cooperation in 1992, it did.
“It was horrid,” Camilla admitted in a rare interview, of the media scrutiny that imprisoned her in her home after the shocking death of Diana, Princess of Wales. “I wouldn't want to put my worst enemy through it.”
On 22 February, Buckingham Palace announced that the Queen would not attend the wedding ceremony, but would attend the church blessing and host the reception afterwards. The reason stated by the palace was the couple wanted to keep the occasion low key.
He told me he was terrified the first night he stayed in Kensington Palace, relieved at least that Charles and Diana had separate bedrooms. Apparently, she had 30 childhood cuddly toys lining the end of her bed."
Before she was taken out of the car, he held her hand and comforted her. "My God, what's happened," Diana then asked him, in what proved to be her final words. "I massaged her heart and a few seconds later she started breathing again.
The queen appeared nervous, and while paying tribute to the princess, she hinted at the public anger at her silence and stoicism. “We have all been trying in our different ways to cope,” she said.
Margaret chose not to bow her head in respect. Instead, she gave a lazy salute to the casket. that has been compared to shooting away a fly. According to royal experts, Princess Margaret felt as though Princess.
Princess Diana was buried in a long black dress designed by Lay Di's friend and designer Catherine Walker.
It is understood that the Royal Family wanted the young Princes to walk behind their mother's coffin as a sign of tradition, expressing the continuity of the monarchy and the constitution.
Some might have believed Prince William or Prince Harry would have inherited the property but instead it will eventually go to Louis Spencer. As our colleagues at MyLondon report, the 27-year-old will eventually take on the 13,500-acre Althorp estate in Northamptonshire - despite having older sisters.
Althorp House was previously owned by Princess Diana's father, Earl John Spencer, and is now home to her brother, Charles, the 9th Earl Spencer, who often shares glimpses inside its lavish walls on social media.
Buckingham Palace
The palace's private quarters have been Queen Elizabeth II's formal residence since 1936 when her father took the throne and is speculated to be the new home of King Charles III and his Queen Consort.
Who walked behind Diana's coffin? The funeral procession included William and Harry,Prince Charles andPrince Philip, as well as hundreds of representatives of the charities Diana had been involved with.
“One of the most shocking things that Diana told me was that the night before the wedding, Charles told her that he didn't love her,” Thornton says. “I think Charles didn't want to go into the wedding on a false premise. He wanted to square it with her, and it was devastating for Diana.”