The royal wedding of Princess Diana seems like a fairytale but amongst all the glamour and royal pomp there was heartbreak, doubt and betrayal, and it is this which continued to plague her till the day she died.
Diana Spencer and Prince Charles in front of the world seemed ready to start a lifetime of service and commitment. Yet privately and shortly before she was due to process down the aisle at St. Pauls Cathedral Diana was given a very chilling reminder
that the man she was marrying may not love her at all. Just prior to their wedding, the younger bride-to-be had been reportedly devastated when Charles supposedly revealed in note form the previous night before the wedding day, that he did not love her.
Any one hearing this would be shaken, but to a 20-year-old woman about to marry into one of the richest and most intense families in the world, it was devastating. Completely alone and overpowering,
Diana even thought about withdrawing herself entirely of the ceremony. However, she explained to her sisters, it was too late now as the face is already on the tea towel.
The marriage between Charles and Diana never appeared to have gotten off on the right foot. At the very start, it started to show it was more a duty of royals rather than love. During their engagement interview, Diana answered with a lot of assurance when they were asked whether they were in love or
not. The answer given by Charles, that he loved her, but whatever that meant, sounded to her cold and confused her. That was not the only time when she started doubting his intentions.
Privately, Charles still had a heart full of messes with Camilla Parker Bowles on whom he had a long-lasting, complex relationship prior to the period of wooing Diana. They were emotionally attached despite marrying different people.
Since Diana has no knowledge of the true nature of their relationship, she started stitching it together when she started seeing Camilla more and more in their married life.
Not long after the engagement Camilla even sent Diana a apparently amicable letter, asking her to lunch. Diana did, but that was an eye-opener lunch indeed- and awkward. The manner in which Camilla casually
quizzed Diana on her future plans including whether she would agree to go to hunting trips with Charles had an underlying motive. Later Diana cottoned on to the fact that Camilla was evaluating when she can have Charles all to herself.
The emotional harm had been done deep by the 1989 when Diana challenged Camilla. In a surprising act of courage Diana confronted her competitor face to face and confessed that she was aware of the affair
and asked her to tell the truth and be dignified. Diana told that Camilla became defensive but did not refute the affair. It was heartbreaking how Diana tried to salvage her marriage by saying, I want my husband.
Although their royal wedding attracted close to 750 million people across the world on July 29, 1981, what the millions did not know was the fact that Diana was already emotionally battered by the time she
walked into the ceremony. The pretenses that she might have been giving to herself had been bared away by the confession that Charles had made the previous night. Nevertheless, the show must go on- it had to.
There are even some parts of joyfulness with the beginning of their marriage years especially the advent of their sons William and Harry. Diana adored motherhood and did everything to make her boys feel some sort of normalcy in this palate-based lifestyle. She would smuggle them out to get them fast foods,
take them to the amusement parks, and write them loving letters telling about the personalities and sibling affiliation. Such note left in 1985 was a reminiscent of how William loved his little brother and kissed him to death.
However, with the passage of years the fractures in the royal marriage became even deeper. Official performances became tense and offstage feuds erupted into the open. In 1992, Charles and Diana had gone separate ways. They divorced formally 4 years after.
Then was the world filled with the tragedy. Diana was killed in a car accident in a tunnel in Paris on August 31 1997. She was only 36. Not only did her demise dismantle her family, but it left a scar on an international audience who had become accustomed to love her because of her sympathy, weakness, and bravery.
Physicians who were at the scene of the accident struggled to rescue her life. MonSef Dahman, one of the surgeons present in the case, would cite the frantic, tearful attempt to revive her one of the creepiest experiences he ever had in the line of duty. Such was impossible to have saved her. And that we felt a good deal about,” he answered.
Decades after, the people close to Charles would all say that he had not appreciated how much Diana would mean to him emotionally. According to Simone Simmons who is the close friend and healer of Diana, Charles only discovered that he loved Diana during her death time. Simmons claimed that she was the first one who made him feel any genuine love.
The life of a Princess Diana will always be a story of beauty, but surrounded in sadness, a woman who contributed much to this very world who could often not do much back to her. Although there was a lot of pain she had to cope with, Diana has left behind the spirit of compassion, endurance, and love,
particularly about her children. And suddenly her truth, which had long been buried underneath palace protocol, becomes a part of the history she did not have a chance of writing herself but which is passed on by millions of people in their memories and hearts.
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