The former butler stunned the packed courtroom describing Diana's mother's alleged comments as “a hate-filled personal attack on the men and their religious beliefs.” According to Burrell, as a result of that call, Diana vowed never to speak to her mother again.
Diana's relationship with her own mother was also turbulent. The pair weren't on speaking terms at the time of her death and, according to The New York Times, Frances revealed that the princess had returned her letters unopened.
They divorced when Princess Diana was young
At the time, Shand Kydd had fallen in love with another man, according to The Washington Post. "We just drifted apart, and there was nothing either of us could do about it," Shand Kydd said at the time, according to The Telegraph. They divorced in 1969.
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.
Diana lived with her mother in London during her parents' separation in 1967, but during that year's Christmas holidays, Lord Althorp refused to let his daughter return to London with Lady Althorp. Shortly afterwards, he won custody of Diana with support from his former mother-in-law, Lady Fermoy.
Despite her fierce love for her sons William and Harry, the princess often told friends that she secretly dreamt of having a daughter.
The Royal Highnesses have no plans to divorce, and their constitutional positions are unaffected." The key phrase here is "no plans to divorce"—Princess Diana, reportedly did not want a divorce.
"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 said. "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."
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."
Shortly before her passing, the former couple began to reconcile their relationship, with Charles stopping in at her Kensington Palace residence occasionally. In 2005, Prince Charles went on to wed Camilla Parker Bowles, now known as Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
The former butler stunned the packed courtroom describing Diana's mother's alleged comments as “a hate-filled personal attack on the men and their religious beliefs.” According to Burrell, as a result of that call, Diana vowed never to speak to her mother again.
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.
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.
The queen's public words about Diana were sincere, as a private letter—made public in 2017—that she wrote after the funeral to her aide Lady Henriette Abel Smith seems to confirm. "It was indeed dreadfully sad, and she is a huge loss to the country," the queen wrote.
Camilla Is Related to Both Diana and King Charles
Strangely, they are also both related to the late Princess Diana through shared ancestry dating back to King Charles II. Also note that Camilla's great-grandmother was a mistress to King Edward VII, the great-great-grandfather of King Charles.
According to Andrew Morton's 1992 biography, Diana: Her True Story—In Her Own Words, Diana's relationship with the queen was friendly—at least in comparison to her relationship with the Queen Mother, who kept her at arm's length.
Another source close to the two explained to The Post that they do not share the same bed because of royal tradition. In many cases, this would have led to separation, but Charles and Camilla have proven that their relationship works equally well even in such situations.
June 1994: Charles publicly admitted to having an affair with Camilla and Diana wore her famous "revenge dress." In June 1994, Charles admitted to having an affair with Camilla during an interview with documentary filmmaker Jonathan Dimbleby.
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 ...
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).
Speaking on an ITV documentary called The Diana Interview: Revenge of a Princess, Diana's astrologer Penny Thornton says that Diana confessed this to her. “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.
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.
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.
They allegedly decided to use in-vitro fertilization in order to see if her eggs were fertile. However, one of the doctors who was involved in the procedure stole both Diana's eggs and Charles sperm. He then supposedly used a surrogate womb in order to bring carry Sarah for 9 months. Sha was born in 1981, allegedly.
"The figure of Diana, Princess of Wales is surrounded by three children who represent the universality and generational impact of The Princess' work.