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entertainment">The parents of Prince William and Prince Harry gave each other their yes, this week exactly, 40 years ago. In her dazzling wedding dress, cheered by thousands of fans, the princess, just twenty years old, was the absolute crown jewel of the day. A marriage that mere mortals can only dream of.
entertainment">In reality, Diana was a barrel of doubts, filled mainly by Charles’ relationship with his then-ex-girlfriend Camilla Parker Bowles. Just days before the wedding, Diana found in the room of Charles’ private secretary Michael Colborne a bracelet engraved with the letters G and F – which stand for Gladys in Fred, the nicknames Charles and Camilla had given each other.
entertainment">In de Channel 5-documentary Charles and Camilla: King and Queen in Waiting says royalty journalist Jenny Bond: “Diana once told me that that day, on her way to the altar, she felt like ‘a lamb led to the slaughter’. That was so sad. When she saw Camilla sitting in St Paul’s Cathedral, she couldn’t help herself.”
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Diana and Camilla in 1980.
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entertainment">In the years following the marriage, which ended in 1995, it was revealed that Charles was indeed having an affair with Camilla. The two got married in 2005.
entertainment">Shortly before her death, Diana opened a book about her time with the prince. “There are three of us in this marriage,” she told controversial journalist Martin Bashir.
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