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“And her mother and my mother were at school together, and they were best friends. And Diana was my fourth cousin. You know, it's just extraordinary that we were brought together.” Fergie and Princess Diana were childhood friends and married into the royal family just a few years apart.
While Princess Diana and Prince Philip were not reported to have gotten along well (during her marriage to Philip, there were reports that he was "unkind" to her, according to CNN), behind closed doors, it appears he was there for Diana during the difficult divorce — to a degree at least.
Princess Diana reportedly had her fair share of fleeting affairs, but there was only one man she fell head over heels for: Hasnat Khan, a 36-year-old Pakistani heart surgeon. These are the secrets behind their two-year-long whirlwind romance, according to The Diana Chronicles written by journalist Tina Brown.
Before King Charles III (then Prince Charles) married Princess Diana (then Diana Spencer) in 1981, he was apparently already smitten with his former girlfriend, Camilla Parker Bowles (then Camilla Shand, now Camilla, Queen Consort).
Mohamed and Diana became fast friends, and the show suggests they bonded over their outsider status. The series outlines how al-Fayed's means could offer Diana the protection she required—from private bodyguards and yachts and villas to luxe vacations— after her divorcée status banished her from royal circles.
Princess diana and her precious and favourite son prince harry | Queen of hearts, Lady diana, Diana.
At St James's Palace, Prince Philip, the Prince of Wales, her sons, and her brother joined to walk behind. Five hundred representatives of various charities the Princess had been involved with joined behind them in the funeral cortège.
Prince Charles met Diana in 1977, while dating her sister.
He and Sarah had a short-lived romance, but they obviously weren't compatible—Sarah, who went on to marry Neil McCorquodale, reportedly said she wouldn't marry Charles “if he were the dustman or the King of England.”
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.
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Sarah attended her old friend's funeral and later told Harper's Bazaar, “Because we were like siblings... we rowed. And the saddest thing, at the end, we hadn't spoken for a year."
While Fergie and Diana were close, they also had a turbulent relationship. They had a falling out in 1996, and at the time of Diana's death, Fergie shared they "hadn't spoken for years." Yet, she still remembers her former sister-in-law fondly.
Besides Elton John and George Michael, she had close bonds with sister-in-law Sarah Ferguson, psychotherapist Julia Samuel, and her former London flatmates.
Elton John's friendship with Princess Diana, as well as her son and Meghan, has been well documented over the years.
But there's one moment of pure elation: when Princess Diana reveals to her friends and flatmates Carolyn Bartholomew, Anne Bolton, and Virginia Pitman that she and Prince Charles are engaged to be married.
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.
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. Diana had turned her back on the royal family.
Queen Elizabeth II bowed to Princess Diana's casket in 1997 - The Washington Post.
In both the episode and real-life, Diana disproved the myth by hugging a little boy. In the episode, the little boy is the only child viewers watch Diana hug. But in real life, Diana spent the visit hugging, coddling, and cuddling.
Princess Diana took being a mother very seriously and always made an effort to spend time with her sons, William and Harry. From the time they were born, Diana pushed the boundaries of what was expected of the mother of the royal heirs — she chose their own names and breastfed them as infants.
When news of Diana's death reached her family, William and Harry were devastated. “There's nothing like it in the world," William said. "There really isn't. It's like an earthquake has just run through the house and through your life and everything.
The couple had been seeing each other for just a few months before the tragic car accident took both of their lives. Princess Diana's romance with Dodi Fayed, the Egyptian-born film magnate, was just beginning when the two died in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997.
Diana first met Dodi in 1986 when he was playing polo against her then-husband Prince Charles.
“Diana was madly in love with Hasnat Khan and wanted to marry him,” Jemima told me, “even if that meant living in Pakistan, and that's one of the reasons why we became friends.” Diana joked with Jemima about how difficult Pakistani men could be.