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
it s not much fun, actually, watching polo when you re being surrounded by people with very long lenses poking at you from all directions the entire time. and this all adds up to a certain amount of strain each time. it s tempting to look at diana crying at polo matches and think she thought everyone was looking at her, expecting her to behave correctly. but diana s learning curve was realizing that charles wasn t really hers. that he was in love with someone else. the camilla thing kept rearing its head all throughout our engagement. i was trying to be mature about the situation, but i couldn t talk to anyone about it. diana found out about camilla
i was in the studio doing a fitting, and the phone rang. it was diana. she said, would you do me the honor of making my wedding dress? this is the look which persuaded lady diana to choose the young couple as her designers. you can imagine every designer wanted to do her wedding dress. i think it was a kind of decision, she was going against the grain. she just put her foot down and said, no, i want them. news of lady diana s visit spread quickly. lady sarah spencer was there to give a sister s opinion of the wedding dress. the crowd saw that like most brides, lady diana has lost weight as the day approaches. normally you don t want to start cutting into the actual fabric until everything is perfect with the fit. her wedding dress had a tight bodice, and it needed to be taken in multiple times as diana became thinner and thinner.
a godsend. we have a baby on the way. i got married in july, and william was on the way by october. if there was one thing about diana, she was just born to be a mother. she was magic with children. but charles wasn t always there with her. charles was a busy working member of the royal family. that didn t stop when she announced her pregnancy. it couldn t stop. being a young pregnant woman with not enough support was not a good place for diana to be. diana is alone and facing the challenge of early motherhood entirely by herself. and she has no mother of her own to talk to. is she going to chat with the queen about how warm a mother the queen has been to her own children? no.
Parker bowles and charles s relationship from the gossipmongers at buckingham palace. she knew at that stage that charles was in love with camilla, even though he had broken off the relationship and to be the dutiful loving husband of diana. all of that must have sounded very hollow to her. she was too young to understand what charles and camilla have between each other. charles and camilla are soulmates. they know each other at a very profound level. camilla was uncomplicated. she was sexy. it would have been so much easier for everyone if those two just got together. but the timing didn t quite work out.