If that had been the case, “they probably would have made it and conquered the world,” stated royal biographer Ingrid Seward.
The Gist
- According to royal biographer Ingrid Seward, Princess Diana believed that if they had been older, her tumultuous marriage to Prince Charles might have succeeded.
- When they married on July 29, 1981, Charles was 32, while Diana had just turned 20 earlier that month.
- Seward noted that the former Princess of Wales had told her that, had that factor been different, she and Charles could have “conquered the world.”
Despite the often turbulent nature of their marriage, towards the end of her life—cut tragically short—the former Princess of Wales confided in biographer Ingrid Seward that it was important to her that her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, know that she and their father, Prince Charles, had once been in love—and that this very aspect of their relationship might have made their ill-fated union a success. In a moving revelation, Seward shared that Diana believed “if they had met when they were older, they probably would have made it work and conquered the world together.” When they married on July 29, 1981, Charles was 32, while Diana had just turned 20 earlier that same month.
“I was very lucky to see Diana shortly before she died, and she told me that she truly loved Charles,” Seward told Hello! magazine. “He was the one she would love forever; he was the love that got away.”
“She said to me, ‘It is very important to me, Ingrid, that my boys know their father loved me,'” Seward continued. “Of course, the world won’t know that, because they won’t see the letters we exchanged.”
Seward explained that the Prince of Wales—now King Charles—”used to write her the most beautiful love letters, in which he praised her and spoke of her with the utmost tenderness. He truly loved her. He may not have loved her right at the beginning, and he may not have loved her at the end, but he always loved her, and he felt terrible about not being able to make their marriage work.” Charles, Seward said, was “tormented by guilt” over his failure to save the marriage, adding: “because he knew it was up to him to make it work.”
However, Seward noted, Diana’s “intense jealousy” and “many, many other things” made the couple “unsuited to one another at the time.” Ultimately, the couple separated in 1992 and finalized their divorce in 1996, just a year before Diana’s untimely death.
Seward’s comments to Hello! magazine came shortly after the release of the bombshell book by Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, titled Swan Song: Diana, My Sister. In it, Spencer claimed, among other things, that the future king had told him the world would forget Diana “very soon,” and that Charles appeared to be in a state of “extreme euphoria” following her death in a car crash in Paris in 1997.
“And as for Diana, this [book] is the last thing she would ever have wanted: for someone to badmouth her husband,” Seward stated. “She could do it, but no one else should.”