what she was settling with from the outset. my dreams were calling at night. i dreamt of camilla the whole time. obsessed with camilla, totally. she adored prince charles. she wanted to be part of the royal family, to be a credit to the monarchy. she wanted to show the world, and she wanted to show camilla, look who i am, look what he s got. the true diana came out. she has a backbone. she knows she s being seen by camilla. i m about to marry the future king of england. diana frances, wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband? i have made it. i m here. you re there. i won. you lost.
he went away. he was studying. he was in the navy. she got married. she had her kids. then he was engaged. camilla was not deemed a suitable lady to join the royal family, and certainly not a suitable future queen. she was adventurous, she was outspoken, she was a bit racy. she was very popular with men. she d had some boyfriends. she d been around. you could not have the future queen of england with skeletons in the cupboard, with lovers in the past. you could not have that. camilla and diana did know each other. some of the courtship that charles and diana enjoyed actually happens at camilla s family home. charles, when he introduced
it s a process. so what your heart wants isn t the same as what the system wants for you. it was courtiers and people in suits. life was much more structured in a way that was alien to her. but diana wasn t actually left completely alone. camilla parker bowles left diana a note saying, such exciting news, love to see the engagement ring. that s a real, like, mafia thug move. that s so mean girls, it s unbelievable. that s a power move right there. in diana s own words, she told me that any marriage prince charles might have made could never be as strong as the relationship he had with camilla. and that s what she was battling with from the outset. but she has something that camilla doesn t have, which is her youth, her beauty, her sparkle, her charisma.
diana to camilla, never explained to her that camilla had been a girlfriend. and when she discovered that there had been a relationship, would have felt embarrassed and humiliated. and she began to have misgivings about marrying somebody that had had such a significant other relationship. and she was talking about how she would handle this. she fights to become that perfect modern princess, not only for the royal family and the world, but for charles.
peculiar or unusual thing. before the wedding, presents were flooding in. diana was fascinated by this, and a couple weeks before the wedding she was passing by the prince of wales private secretary s office. she saw there some parcels, one of which caught her eye. it was from the crown jewelers. she said, oh, i ll open that, thinking it must be for her. she opened the parcel. inside there was a bracelet, beautiful bracelet. when charles became engaged, he asked the crown jeweler to make several pieces of jewelry for several women who had been kind to him during his bachelor years. they re love or friendship tokens. they re sort of saying, sorry you weren t the one i married. it was a present for camilla, and charles had intended to take