The Real Reason Prince Charles And Princess Diana Divorced

Their courtship was ‘odd’

In The Diana Tapes, a series of recordings between 1992 and 1993, Diana revealed that she and Charles met only 13 times before getting married.

In one recording (via The Sun), she described her first meeting with Charles. “I remember meeting him and feeling desperately sorry for him… I thought, you know, ‘Poor old thing,’ but I wasn’t impressed with anything around him,” she said. “It was the fact that an older man who was in a prominent position liked me and wanted to have me around.”

She reportedly didn’t see him again for three years, and when she did, it was at a funeral. “He leapt upon [me], he started kissing me and everything, and I thought, ‘Ahh, you know, this is not what people do,'” she recalled. “He was all over me for the rest of the evening, followed me around, everything. A puppy. And, yeah, I was flattered, but it was very puzzling… He wasn’t consistent with his courting abilities. He’d ring me up every day for a week and then he wouldn’t speak to me for three weeks, very odd. And I’d accepted that and I thought, ‘Fine, he knows where I am if he wants me.’ And then the thrill when he used to ring up was so immense and intense, [it would] drive the other three girls in my flat crazy. But no, it was all—it was odd.”

Other royals encouraged him to cheat

In The Diana Tapes (via The Sun), Diana claimed that Prince Philip gave Charles carte blanche to cheat on her with Parker-Bowles.

“My father-in-law said to my husband, ‘Uh, if your marriage doesn’t work out, you can always go back to her after five years,'” Diana recalled, “which is exactly, I mean for real I know that it happened after five, I knew something was happening before that.”

She added that Charles’ affections for and with Parker-Bowles negatively impacted their own sex life. “Well, there was [sex]. There was. There was. But it was odd, very odd,” she said. “But it was there then it fizzled out about seven years ago… Instinct told me [he was cheating]… [We’d be intimate] sort of once every three weeks… And then I followed a pattern, he used to see his lady once every three weeks before we got married.”

She noted, “I remember saying to my husband, you know, ‘Why, why is this lady around?’ and he said, ‘Well I refuse to be the only Prince of Wales who never had a mistress.'”

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