Having purposely never met Morton, Diana maintained deniability.

So the thing to do is to involve myself in my work get out and about. And Diana was not the only one who assumed they'd been having an affair, according to The Prince of Wales. Charles' closest friends suspected as much, as did 'one or two members of his own family,' Dimbleby wrote, who warned the prince an 'illicit liaison would be damaging to his own standing and to the institution of which he was so crucial a member.'Ĭharles told Dimblebly in a June 1994 TV interview that he wed Diana fully intending to be committed to his wife, and that he didn't resume his romance with Camilla until their marriage was 'irretrievably broken down, us both having tried.'Ĭamilla, Charles said, 'has been a friend for a very long time and will continue to be a friend for a very long time.'ĭiana told her confidante (and rumored former lover) James Gilbey, per Morton's Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words, 'If I let it get to me I will just upset myself more. They traveled the world, became parents to Prince William and Prince Harry, and carried out the duties expected of the Prince and Princess of Wales.īut by the beginning of the '90s, Charles and Camilla were fully, if theoretically secretly, back on. Paul's Cathedral, plus another 750 million tuning in on TV, the couple settled in for the presumed long haul. Still, after tying the knot in front of 3,500 people at St. The Crownhad been steadily chugging along, telling the story of Queen Elizabeth II's highs and lows as wife, mother, daughter, sister and, above all else, monarch, most events ripped from reality and the blanks intuitively filled in by the Netflix series' writers.īut it was really all just leading up to season five, which covers the chapter of the royal family's story where the genteel action went spectacularly off the rails.Īnd as fascinating as it was when Prime Minister John Major pushed back against the queen's request for a yacht renovation on the government's dime, of course we're talking about the collapse of Prince Charles and Princess Diana's marriage. Which, as seen on The Crown's fourth season, was on shaky footing before they ever said their I-dos in 1981.

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