The secret letter that Carlo wrote to Lady Diana before the wedding

Of their history we often remember chaos, betrayal and drama. The wedding of Prince Charles and of the Princess Diana He had nothing of a placid and sparkling fairy tale and almost all, or almost all, sensed it. Still, there has been love. Carlo, out of modesty or for awkwardness, reserved his rare momentum of tenderness only to Diana.

The eve of their marriage, the future king of England sent his girlfriend a ring with seal accompanied by a ticket he had written on: “I am so proud of you, and when you will advance tomorrow, I will be there for you at the altar “. Diana had confided to the author Andrew Morton in his book Diana: Her true story, Revealing his memories, his wounds and those fragments of tenderness to which he had almost never been used to.

Because Carlo was not a man prone to romantic gestures. His former butler, Paul Burrelltold Marie Claire That, if Diana sent him tickets, the prince did not respond in the same way: “It is so sad to say that he never loved her and that, consequently, those gestures never reciprocated her,” a former palace employee had confided. “It wasn’t romantic. He tried to be, but he didn’t even have a little bit of romanticism in himself ».

Despite these rare attention, the preparations for the wedding were for the lady of an unbearable source of stress, to the point of unleashing violent Bulimia attacks on the eve of the wedding. On the morning of his marriage, he spoke of a “mortal calm”, trusting the English author: “I felt like a lamb led to the slaughterhouse. I knew it, and I couldn’t do anything about it ».

Yet, madly in love with Prince Charles, he could not take his eyes off his eyes. He believed in their history, he believed in him. “I really thought I was the luckiest girl in the world,” he recalled. “He would take care of me … but I was wrong.”