{"id":845024,"date":"2026-03-23T13:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/845024\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:48:17","slug":"princess-diana-said-this-aspect-of-royal-life-ruined-her-marriage-to-prince-charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/845024\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Diana Said This Aspect of Royal Life &#8220;Ruined&#8221; Her Marriage to Prince Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Princess Diana and then-Prince Charles at Cheltenham Racecourse in March 1982.Credit: Getty Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"994\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f5f62d8a8e8dfbcb8f46d1e8066b02a8.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Princess Diana and then-Prince Charles at Cheltenham Racecourse in March 1982.<br \/>Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Gist<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>\n<p>Princess Diana reflected on the demise of her marriage shortly before her death in a conversation with royal biographer Ingrid Seward.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>According to Seward, Diana said &#8220;it wasn&#8217;t Camilla who ruined our marriage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Instead, Diana blamed &#8220;the people around Charles,&#8221; a.k.a. the royal household.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The demise of then-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/lifestyle\/princess-diana-prince-charless-strained-153356837.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Prince Charles and Princess Diana&#039;s marriage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Prince Charles and Princess Diana&#8217;s marriage<\/a> can be blamed on a whole host of problems, but apparently the future king&#8217;s affair with his now-wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/princess-diana-camilla-loyal-discreet-8724614\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Queen Camilla;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Queen Camilla<\/a> wasn&#8217;t one of them\u2014at least according to royal biographer Ingrid Seward. The author revealed as much during a 2025 appearance on Hello!&#8217;s &#8220;A Right Royal Podcast,&#8221; recalling an interaction she had with the Princess of Wales shortly before her death.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Then-Prince Charles and Princess Diana on their honeymoon in August 1981.Credit: Getty Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"655\" height=\"960\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0509be6e5b3d59cbcec1429580223a4e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Then-Prince Charles and Princess Diana on their honeymoon in August 1981.<br \/>Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said to me just before she died, it wasn\u2019t Camilla,\u201d Seward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/royalty\/831082\/royal-author-reveals-who-princess-diana-believed-ruined-her-marriage-and-it-wasnt-camilla\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">said<\/a>. Quoting Diana, the author added, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t Camilla that ruined our marriage. It was the people around Charles\u201d\u2014referring to palace staff and courtiers that were always at hand.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Princess Diana and Queen Camilla, then Camilla Parker Bowles, at Ludlow Racecourse in October 1980.Credit: Getty Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"960\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fa0f1b2ca284736f361aae583eb79e41.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Princess Diana and Queen Camilla, then Camilla Parker Bowles, at Ludlow Racecourse in October 1980.<br \/>Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I could never unpick that comment and quite understand what it meant,\u201d Seward admitted. \u201cBut I also remember Diana\u2019s father saying how tricky the royal household was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of royal staffers, she mused, \u201cAre they just a load of overinflated egos in the royal household, or are they really trying to help?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Princess Diana and then-Prince Charles on a royal visit to Canada in October 1991.Credit: Getty Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"821\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/d140d49d85550efbb90054c2241a06eb.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Princess Diana and then-Prince Charles on a royal visit to Canada in October 1991.<br \/>Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Charles and Diana ultimately separated in 1992 before divorcing in 1996. Nine years later, he and Camilla tied the knot in a civil ceremony on April 9, 2005. As for his ex-wife, Seward previously said that the late princess &#8220;wished people could see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/princess-diana-king-charles-love-letters-8683065\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the love letters;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">the love letters<\/a> that she had from Charles,&#8221; despite the fact that their marriage ended in divorce.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She really wanted people to know that she loved Charles and he loved her,&#8221; Seward said, per\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/royal-family\/article\/diana-princess-wales-charles-love-letters-nb38lwxnw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">The Times<\/a>. &#8220;And I always remembered that. And she wanted the boys [Prince William\u00a0and\u00a0Prince Harry] to know that. There was a period of great love between them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/princess-diana-prince-charles-reason-marriage-failed-11931168\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:InStyle;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">InStyle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Diana and then-Prince Charles at Cheltenham Racecourse in March 1982.Credit: Getty Images The Gist Princess Diana reflected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5117,7730,44372,39430,1412,2831,241640,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-845024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-camilla","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-and-diana","11":"tag-ingrid-seward","12":"tag-princess-diana","13":"tag-princess-of-wales","14":"tag-quoting-diana","15":"tag-royal","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116278808283911205","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}