The letter from Elizabeth II that forced Lady Di to divorce and other family secrets
Two biographers of British royalty reveal more intimacies of the Queen of England
"Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded." When Diana of Wales spoke this famous phrase on the BBC, a tremor shook Buckingham Palace. The princess undressed the miseries of royal life by speaking of the unfortunate triangle of her marriage. Since 1992 Diana and Carlos of England were already de facto separated and the prince less and less concealed that he was still with Camilla Parker, his lifelong lover. It was untenable, but the palace corsets prevented Diana from taking charge of her life ...
Until the revelations that Lady Di made that November 20, 1995 were too much for Queen Elizabeth II, who ipso facto wrote her a letter ordering: "You have to divorce." In this way she put an end to the battered marriage of Carlos and Diana.
Immediate reaction
The interview that Lady Di granted on November 20, 1995 to the BBC was too much for Elizabeth II, who ordered by letter: "You have to divorce"
It was the British royal expert Angela Mollard who revealed what happened immediately after Diana opened the doors of Kesington Palace to journalist Martin Bashir to do the explosive interview, in which she also spoke of her love affairs with the former cavalry officer James Hewitt.
According to Mollard, it was not Diana or Carlos who decided to divorce - the princess, the daughter of divorcees, wanted to avoid the bad luck to her children -, but Queen Elizabeth who finally took action on the matter. A year later, they signed the divorce, the agreement of which was not made public, and which included a confidentiality clause to prevent Diana from revealing more details about her dissolved marriage.
This revelation comes at a time when Diana's youngest son Harry has sued a tabloid for publishing a letter Meghan Markle wrote to her father.
The letter has not seen the light, but this revelation comes at a time when Diana's youngest son, Harry, has accused the press of launching a “relentless campaign” against his wife, Meghan Markle, who has decided to sue the The Mail on Sunday for publishing a letter written by the Duchess and addressed to her father, Thomas Markle, in which, according to the British newspaper, Meghan talks about her pain at her father's attitude and tells her her father has “broken her heart ”.
Parallel to the revelation of the biographer Angela Mollard about the royal letter, and the publication a week ago of the memoirs of Angela Kelly, the person in charge of the wardrobe of the British monarch, a new chapter of the private writings of Kenneth Rose is published, the British royal biographer who died in 2014 but wrote down his succulent experiences with the Windsors.
Rose, who thinks that “the queen is good with the ministers, ambassadors and representatives of the Commonwealth, but not with her children and with many other people”, recounts one of the episodes of little empathy of Elizabeth II: “During the dinner of the Prime Minister at Spencer House Diana asked to see Elizabeth II earlier to tell her that she wanted to separate from Charles. But the monarch was in a hurry to get dressed, so she told him that they would speak at the palace at the end of the night. The queen had to sit down to dinner with the prime ministers and even talk to me. It's amazing how she was so calm and cheerful. Those from Wales - Carlos and Diana - by comparison, were red and shaken.
On the contrary, Elizabeth II melts for her dogs, the decorator Pamela Hicks explained to Rose that the only time the monarch responded to one of the many letters she sent her “was when I sent her a message of affection after death. of one of his dogs after a fight with another Clarence House dog. She wrote six pages dedicated to the memory of her corgi ”.
Diana's breath
Some employees of Sandrigham - one of the Windsor residences - did not want to work in one of the palace rooms because they believed it was haunted
The royal biographer also collects episodes of other members of the Windsor family, such as when the queen mother's own maid told him that some employees of Sandrigham - one of the Windsor residences - did not want to work in one of the palace rooms because it was haunted. The issue was resolved when the local parish priest was invited to officiate a mass there, so that the "disturbing atmosphere that could be due to Princess Diana" disappeared.
