Exactly 40 years ago, on February 3, 1981, the Prince Charles , at the time thirty-two, was the wedding proposal to the nineteen year old lady Diana in Windsor Castle children’s room. As the fourth season of The Crown, the queen’s firstborn Elisabetta he did not kneel as per tradition, although the “fairytale” version still circulates in some British tabloids.
How things really went Diana told, at the beginning of the nineties, in some tapes recorded to reconstruct her unhappy marriage and then give it to the writer Andrew Morton which turned them into the book Diana: Her True Story: «Carlo asked me “Do you want to marry me?”, And I burst out laughing.
I remember first thinking: “This is a joke.” Then I replied: “Ok”. And he continued: “Do you know that one day you will become queen?”. A voice inside me said that I would not become queen, but that my role would still be very hard to play. Then Carlo said: “I love you, I love you so much … whatever the word love means”».
A sentence that did not bode well. It seems that the prince, after having said it, “Ran away without even hugging Diana”, as another royal family biographer, Christopher Wilson, stated in the 2019 documentary Charles & Di: The Truth Behind Their Wedding. “He did nothing of what is expected of a marriage proposal. He called his mother and very simply said to her, “Done. You told me to find someone to marry, here she is”».
Carlo’s wedding proposal, it seems, was anything but romantic. On the other hand, a worthy beginning of an unhappy marriage and “a little too crowded” (due Camilla Parker Bowles) which ended in a stormy divorce in 1996.
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