Princess Diana's three qualities that convinced the Queen she was perfect for Charles
Princess Diana's had three crucial qualities that convinced the Queen she would be the perfect candidate to marry her son Prince Charles, a Royal expert has revealed.
Royal biographer Sarah Bradford revealed in the Channel 5 documentary Charles and Di: The Truth Behind Their Wedding that Princess Diana had three fundamental qualities that convinced the Queen she would be suitable to marry Prince Charles. Despite the couple's 12-year age gap, the Queen believed then Lady Diana Spencer would make the perfect wife to be because she was "virgin, educated and aristocratic", Ms Bradford claimed.
She said: “I think they thought she was a good idea. I think the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh liked her.
“I think they were all for it.
“I mean, really, who could be more suitable than Diana?
“Virgin, educated, aristocratic. Perhaps they wanted to know how much she had been affected by her parents' divorce.“
She added: “The Queen Mother and Lady Fermoy, who was Diana’s grandmother, were close.
“And I think they thought in similar ways.”
Royal author Penny Junor, in her 2005 book “The Firm”, claimed young Diana was “fatally damaged” before entering into her unhappy marriage.
Ms Junor writes: “At 19, she was little more than a child when she first arrived, totally unprepared for the life that lay ahead and completely out of her depth.
“She was a romantic, an innocent, she knew nothing of life or work or relationships.
“The things she knew about were loss and rejection, the product of her parents' divorce; and she had been fatally damaged by the experience.
“She had no self-confidence, no stability, just a desperate need to be loved and wanted; and a determination to get what she wanted.”
Ms Junor also describes how one event, that devastated the Royal Family in 1979, could have prevented Charles and Diana’s ill-suited match.
She writes: “Michael Colborne (Charles’s former secretary) is convinced that if Lord Mountbatten, murdered by the IRA in 1979, had still been alive a year later, Charles and Diana would never have married.
“He is probably right.
“Mountbatten was like a father to the prince and he would have seen that Diana was the wrong person for him to be bound to for 50 years or more.
“But Mountbatten was dead, and Charles was still consumed by grief, lost without the older man to guide him, and alone.”
Instead, when Diana married Charles, she faced a tough transition into life with the Royal Family.
