I think she desperately needed the attention, love and acceptance she never got from her parents. Plus she was just so damn young when thrown into that circus. How was a 19 year old supposed to deal with the Camillas of that world? And the unrelenting press. If Charles had been able to maintain that facade of love and caring towards her I do wonder how badly her mental health would have been? But of course he too is a product of his own emotionally negligent and hypercritical parents. Its really such a shame.
Diana was in love with him no doubt. But do you think Charles was ever in love with her ? He surely had a fondness for her but in love ? The love of his life was and still is Camilla.
She was 19. I think she loved him in the way 19yos do and he tried his best in the beginning. It was a terrible match.
For a brief time they definitely seems to be in love(not the passionate kind but still)genuinely and maybe tried to work on their marriage too but regardless they were very different people with very different needs which eventually came in a way!
Whatever “in love” means.
Iirc, she said their happiest days were while pregnant with Harry.
She was definitely in love to start
I think they loved each other. But the pull of Camilla being closer to Charles age, Camilla’s own manipulation to break a marriage, and Diana just being more popular than Charles — all created resentment and it’s really just too much for anyone to handle.
Tbh I think they did somewhat love each other but they were a terrible match and didn’t really understand each other. Still, supposedly they were on good terms after the divorce (and after the whole shitstorm), which is so important when there are children involved.
It’s kind of insane now to think those two were married . That Charles and Diana was a thing. All so long ago now.
I believe they truly loved each other at one point. If only Camilla had let go of Charles, I think they could have built a genuine connection and lasted a lifetime.
Sometimes I think, had she been older and able to just ignore Camilla, they could have had a successful marriage. Diana held all the cards, she was young, charismatic and beautiful. She was already his wife. The Camilla thing would have eventually faded away. (Charles grew to love Camilla deeply, but even during the turbulent 80s, she wasn’t the only one he was cheating on Diana with. There were others.) Yet, who could have expected it of Diana…she was so young and so hurt.
I think they both tried in the early years. There was some love and affection there, especially after they had a child that bonded them together. And as ‘coworkers’ they actually did make a really good team in their roles as P&P of Wales. But they could never make up for all the differences of interests and personality in their private lives. They both wanted/needed something in a romantic partner that the other one just couldn’t change and conform to be, even though both tried to do so at the beginning. Square peg, round hole.
i think it was love if camilla hadnt meddled. all loves go through challenges but its hard sincearroed to diana, he had camilla whose kids by then were older and didnt have any of the pressures imposed by being a royal and could hide in secrecy not following any rules. charles no. 1 was camilla even allowing her to brief against william and catherine shows his lack of regard for his family in relation to Camilla. its funny how nothing bad about catherine was going on before but when the queen died and charles and camilla arr king and queen so many negative things against catherine and her family have come out. like how they were forced to use the service entrance how catherine was late so charles and camilla left them how her family went bankrupt etc. i dont know how true thoae are but theyre so specific. even the ladies fighting over the color blue.
Diana deserved so much more
Too much of an age gap and they didn’t really know each other well beforehand. But they were a great match on paper and Diana had the right lineage to satisfy the royal family so they pushed them into it.
I think emotionally, they were each other’s worst nightmare, Diana’s childhood and her later problems meant she needed someone who was always reassuring here, always emotionally present even more than in a normal relationship, willing and capable of dealing with her insecurities.
Charles on the other hand was the extreme opposite (also as a result of his childhood), he needed plenty of space and was often distant, he couldn’t deal with someone being emotionally reliant on him, and his personal relationships never were his top priorities, Anxious and Avoidant patterns at the extremes, a nightmare.
That’s why he and Camilla work, she gives him plenty of space (a whole 15 mins between their separate houses) and doesn’t make emotional demands, she has her separate life where he’s an occasional guest, in return he buys her whatever he wants, hires people to clean up her image and makes her his Queen, If Diana was content with that their marriage would’ve worked( he was always generous to her with money, clothes and jewelry even after the breakdown of their relationship) similarly if Camilla wanted more, their relationships wouldn’t have worked.
I always think of that moment when he’s asked about being in love with her and he awkwardly answers ‘whatever in love means’.
I know it’s been years and water under the bridge, but when I hear “Charles and Camilla,” I can’t help but think of the disgusting tampon conversation. 🤢
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I think she desperately needed the attention, love and acceptance she never got from her parents. Plus she was just so damn young when thrown into that circus. How was a 19 year old supposed to deal with the Camillas of that world? And the unrelenting press. If Charles had been able to maintain that facade of love and caring towards her I do wonder how badly her mental health would have been? But of course he too is a product of his own emotionally negligent and hypercritical parents. Its really such a shame.
Diana was in love with him no doubt. But do you think Charles was ever in love with her ? He surely had a fondness for her but in love ? The love of his life was and still is Camilla.
She was 19. I think she loved him in the way 19yos do and he tried his best in the beginning. It was a terrible match.
For a brief time they definitely seems to be in love(not the passionate kind but still)genuinely and maybe tried to work on their marriage too but regardless they were very different people with very different needs which eventually came in a way!
Whatever “in love” means.
Iirc, she said their happiest days were while pregnant with Harry.
She was definitely in love to start
I think they loved each other. But the pull of Camilla being closer to Charles age, Camilla’s own manipulation to break a marriage, and Diana just being more popular than Charles — all created resentment and it’s really just too much for anyone to handle.
Tbh I think they did somewhat love each other but they were a terrible match and didn’t really understand each other. Still, supposedly they were on good terms after the divorce (and after the whole shitstorm), which is so important when there are children involved.
It’s kind of insane now to think those two were married . That Charles and Diana was a thing. All so long ago now.
I believe they truly loved each other at one point. If only Camilla had let go of Charles, I think they could have built a genuine connection and lasted a lifetime.
Sometimes I think, had she been older and able to just ignore Camilla, they could have had a successful marriage. Diana held all the cards, she was young, charismatic and beautiful. She was already his wife. The Camilla thing would have eventually faded away. (Charles grew to love Camilla deeply, but even during the turbulent 80s, she wasn’t the only one he was cheating on Diana with. There were others.) Yet, who could have expected it of Diana…she was so young and so hurt.
I think they both tried in the early years. There was some love and affection there, especially after they had a child that bonded them together. And as ‘coworkers’ they actually did make a really good team in their roles as P&P of Wales. But they could never make up for all the differences of interests and personality in their private lives. They both wanted/needed something in a romantic partner that the other one just couldn’t change and conform to be, even though both tried to do so at the beginning. Square peg, round hole.
i think it was love if camilla hadnt meddled. all loves go through challenges but its hard sincearroed to diana, he had camilla whose kids by then were older and didnt have any of the pressures imposed by being a royal and could hide in secrecy not following any rules. charles no. 1 was camilla even allowing her to brief against william and catherine shows his lack of regard for his family in relation to Camilla. its funny how nothing bad about catherine was going on before but when the queen died and charles and camilla arr king and queen so many negative things against catherine and her family have come out. like how they were forced to use the service entrance how catherine was late so charles and camilla left them how her family went bankrupt etc. i dont know how true thoae are but theyre so specific. even the ladies fighting over the color blue.
Diana deserved so much more
Too much of an age gap and they didn’t really know each other well beforehand. But they were a great match on paper and Diana had the right lineage to satisfy the royal family so they pushed them into it.
I think emotionally, they were each other’s worst nightmare, Diana’s childhood and her later problems meant she needed someone who was always reassuring here, always emotionally present even more than in a normal relationship, willing and capable of dealing with her insecurities.
Charles on the other hand was the extreme opposite (also as a result of his childhood), he needed plenty of space and was often distant, he couldn’t deal with someone being emotionally reliant on him, and his personal relationships never were his top priorities, Anxious and Avoidant patterns at the extremes, a nightmare.
That’s why he and Camilla work, she gives him plenty of space (a whole 15 mins between their separate houses) and doesn’t make emotional demands, she has her separate life where he’s an occasional guest, in return he buys her whatever he wants, hires people to clean up her image and makes her his Queen, If Diana was content with that their marriage would’ve worked( he was always generous to her with money, clothes and jewelry even after the breakdown of their relationship) similarly if Camilla wanted more, their relationships wouldn’t have worked.
I always think of that moment when he’s asked about being in love with her and he awkwardly answers ‘whatever in love means’.
I know it’s been years and water under the bridge, but when I hear “Charles and Camilla,” I can’t help but think of the disgusting tampon conversation. 🤢
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