Princess Diana and Prince Charles married in their spectacular royal wedding in 1981. However, the Prince and Princess of Wales’ infamously turbulent marriage went on to be rocked by scandal and infidelities. Royal biographer Penny Junor, in her 2017 book “The Duchess: The Untold Story” charts the downfall of the marriage of Charles and Diana, which unfolded in the media around the world.
Ms Junor writes: “In the midst of it all was a woman in her forties: Camilla Parker Bowles, the prince’s long-term mistress, the married woman whom Diana squarely blamed for the failure of her marriage to Charles and for fifteen years of unhappiness.
“She claimed her husband had been obsessed by Camilla, that he had slept with her the night before their wedding, that they’d connived together to continue their affair behind her back.
“She called Camilla ’the enemy’ and ‘the Rottweiler’ and it was she to whom Diana referred when she famously said in a lengthy interview on British television, ‘There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.’
“Yet whatever she might have said – and believed – Diana’s claims were false.”
The Duchess of Cornwall and the Princess of Wales (Image: Getty)
Prince Charles, Camilla and Diana pictured in 1975 and 1980 (Image: Getty)
Diana’s claims were false
Penny Junor
Ms Junor explains: “Camilla was not the sole reason the royal marriage fell apart, and she and Charles certainly did not sleep together the night before his wedding; there were many other factors that explain what went wrong.
“However, there is no denying that the prince did always love Camilla – in the way, perhaps,
