Princess Diana and Prince Charles married in their spectacular 1981 royal wedding. However, as their infamously turbulent marriage began to unravel, the Princess of Wales became increasingly troubled. Biographer Andrew Morton, in his 2011 book “William and Catherine”, describes how the unhappy princess began to make “bitter” jokes about her situation.
Mr Morton writes: “When Diana, Princess of Wales talked on the phone – which was often – midway through a conversation she would suddenly say, ‘Hello boys, time to change the tape.’
“It was a joke with an uncharacteristically bitter twist.
“The Princess believed not only that the Palace was conspiring against her, but that the security forces were routinely tapping her telephones.”
He continues: “With hindsight, it is easy to understand why.
Diana, Princess of Wales (Image: Getty)
Diana and Charles pictured with WIlliam and Harry in 1994 (Image: Getty)
“For years she had been dismissed as ‘deranged and paranoid’ for suspecting that her husband was involved in a clandestine relationship with his married friend – and former flame – Camilla Parker Bowles.
“As the world now knows, there was in fact an elaborate conspiracy to keep that relationship secret.
“The strain of the day-to-day subterfuge actually made some of his staff physically ill.”
Illicit recordings of Charles and Camilla were made public in 1993, just months
