Eager to be married by 30, Prince Charles had a long string of close friendships with princesses, heiresses and even a second cousin until, in 1981, he finally married Lady Diana Spencer.
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Prince Charles jokingly called Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, his Girl Friday , according to a royal biographer. Vanity Fair contributing editor and historian Sally Bedell Smith spoke to the Royally Obsessed podcast about the Prince of Wales relationship with his wife. She gave insight into the famous story of Charles gifting Camilla a bracelet before he married Diana, Princess of Wales.
Prince Charles and Camila’s ‘G and F’ bracelet was a ‘figment of Diana’s imagination’
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Tue, Dec 29, 2020
Many of The Crown fans are perhaps familiar with the infamous bracelet that Prince Charles gifted to Camila right before he married Princess Diana.
And while some may believe that to be an accurate depiction, royal expert Sally Bedell Smith claims that was hardly the case.
Speaking on the
Royally Obsessed podcast, Smith spoke about that the bracelet story and the terms ‘Gladys and Fred’. The bracelet story was told to me by the man who was in charge of the bracelets. Solid source. This is kind of typical Prince Charles. Before he got married, he decided to have a bunch of gifts made for special people in his life,” she said.
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Princess Diana s accusation that Prince Charles gifted Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, a special bracelet before their 1981 wedding has been labelled as a figment of imagination . Vanity Fair contributing editor and royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith spoke to the Royally Obsessed podcast about the truth behind the bracelet story . Diana s discovery of the bracelet was depicted in Netflix s controversial Season 4 of The Crown.