Lady Diana was obsessed with Camilla Parker-Bowles
A biography of Camilla Parker-Bowles sheds light on Lady Diana's jealousy towards her, before her marriage to Prince Charles.
Lady Diana began to distrust Camilla Parker-Bowles during her engagement to Prince Charles. This is in any case what reveals a biography entitled The Duchess: The Untold Story (1) and written by Penny Junor which traces the life of Camilla Parker-Bowles, the second wife of the prince. In the work, reported by the Dailymail, we discover Lady Diana's sickly jealousy of the one who was the mistress of the heir to the throne of England.
Lady Diana's mistrust of what she considered to be her rival began during a lunch between the two women. Camilla Parker-Bowles wanted to receive Diana Spencer to see her engagement ring and was also very enthusiastic about their union. “Looking back, she was convinced Camilla had a Machiavellian plan,” the author explains in her book. The reason ? Camilla reportedly asked Diana if she would go hunting once she settled in Highgrove. "In Diana's mind, Charles's lover - who was with the same hunting club - wanted to know if her affair could continue," says Penny Junor.
"Obsessed with Camilla"
A first clue which would therefore have participated in the discomfort of Lady Diana. The author writes that the one who was about to become the Princess of Wales would have changed her behavior some time before her marriage: “She suddenly became moody, stubborn and unpredictable. She had fits of anger followed by hysterical crying spells for no apparent reason. (…) She was obsessed with Camilla ”. The young bride is said to have become very dependent on Prince Charles, hating to be left alone, jealous of everyone he spent time with. “No one realized back then that their personality was the result of the symptoms of their bulimia,” says Junor. An eating disorder that Diana admitted to having a few years later.
But Prince Charles proved his jealousy right. A few days before the wedding, she would have found a bracelet engraved with the initials "F" and "G", for Fred and Gladys, the nicknames given to each other by the ex-lovers. Diana opened up about the discovery to writer Andrew Morton. He also published what he said in a self-narrated biography called Diana. After confronting her future husband about the jewel, she explains that he pretended that she didn't exist, "like he had made up his mind and if things didn't work out, too bad". And things ended up not working out, as everyone knows. Prince Charles is now married to Camilla Parker-Bowles.
