Pretty, witty, confident Camilla Shand was warm, uncomplicated and, importantly, shared his love of the countryside, dogs, horses and hunting.
What she did not know was that Charles, at 29, had already met and fallen in love with his 'ideal woman' many years before. 'Her only talk was of meeting him, and when she did one weekend (at a dinner party at Althorp given by her sister, one of the Prince's many girlfriends), she seemed completely besotted, dreaming of escape, I should think, into fairy-tale.'ĭiana fell for Charles with all the passion of youthful love, and with a youthful conviction that she was going to get him. She had pictures of him up in her cubicle, which wasn't entirely unusual for a girl from that kind of background. In this important series, the Queen’s biographer paints a very different – and often disturbing – portrait of a princess troubled from birth.ĭiana always gave it to be understood that it was Charles who made the running in their relationship, but Penny Walker, her form mistress at school, gave a different version.
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