and charles had intended to take her to lunch and say thank you and farewell. diana discovers the gift that charles has got for camilla. it s a gold chain bracelet with a blue enamel disk. it s got g and f entwined in it. diana knew what that meant, she knew that girl friday was charles name for camilla parker bowles. she found that incredibly difficult and was suspicious that camilla parker bowles was back in the prince s life. when charles came back into the room, he met diana in a rage and tears. and he thought, what on earth is the matter with her? she d got to his desk, she d found and seen the bracelet that had gf on it.
she heard through the door that he was telling camilla that he loved her. it must have been incredibly devastating for diana, and very humiliating. diana was already beginning to project into the future that this other emotional love affair was going to continue. they moved in exactly the same circles. they were all part of the same group of friends. camilla just remained this unignorable background hum in everybody else s life. but she doesn t back down. she doesn t shy away from that. she really recognizes that she has a power here, and she s going to use it. diana was realizing, you have to become the heroine of your own story. like the princess in a fairytale. the best place for diana to
to be ready to take on any 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 loveable friendship tokens. they re sort of saying, sorry you weren t the one i married. it was a present for camilla,
a polo match the ever-present photographers too intrusive. she was led away, obviously too distressed. it s not much fun actually watching polo when you are surrounded by people with very long lenses poking at you in all directions the entire time. i think all of this adds up to a certain amount of strain each time. it s tempting to look at diana crying at polo matches and she thought everyone was looking at her expecting her to behave correctly. diana s learning curve was realizing that charles wasn t really hers. that he was in love with someone e else. the camilla thing kept rearing its head. i was desperately trying to be mature about the situation, but i couldn t talk to anyone about
that s a power move right there. in diana s own words, she told me 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. and that s something she s going to hold on to and use. diana was incredibly determined to make charles love her. her role was to triumph in the fairytale over the wicked lady in the house down the road. one of diana s early engagements was an evening at the goldsmith s hall in london.