Did you know ? Diana and Camilla were friends, before arguing Charles
As season 4 of The Crown airs on Netflix, Camilla Parker-Bowles' biography reveals that she was close to Diana Spencer.
Before they hated each other, they were friends. While season 4 of The Crown, on Netflix since November 15, focuses on Charles and Diana, Vanitatis reveals that before Camilla Shand married Andrew Parker-Bowles, the current Duchess of Cornwall had a close relationship with Lady Di. It was in the biography of Prince Charles's wife, The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair that Shook the Crown, that the Spanish media made this discovery. Its author, Penny Junor, writes that Lady Diana went regularly to Bolehyde Manor, the Parker-Bowles' country house, until 1980. It was on this date that William and Harry's mother began dating the prince. Charles.
14 years old, Diana saw Camilla Parker-Bowles as an older sister she could turn to for advice. The two got along so well that Prince Charles' first wife was helping the Duchess of Cornwall with her two children Tom and Laura. Conversely, if Camilla had initially been in a relationship with the Prince of Wales, she did not hesitate to support Lady Di when she began dating the future king. The two women reportedly even remained friends as Charles and Diana's relationship came to fruition.
There were three of us in my marriage "
It was in 1981, when Prince Charles and Diana announced their engagement, that his relationship with Camilla deteriorated. In his biography Diana: Her True Story, Andrew Morton tells the Duchess of Cornwall would have sought to know when she could see, alone, the Prince of Wales. Fittingly, Diana began to distrust Camilla. The stabbing came later, when William and Harry's mother discovered that Charles had given his mistress a bracelet, just before her own wedding. In her infamous Panorama interview in 1995, Lady Di told Martin Bashir "[to be] three in [his] marriage." A year earlier, the Prince of Wales had confessed his adultery to him.
