Princess Diana’s heartbreak didn’t end with her brutal divorce from Prince Charles in 1996 — with the wicked Prince of Wales declaring that he was in “total agony” while forced into the royal wedding! Even worse, the sadistic admission was made in an official biography by respected English writer Jonathan Dimbleby — who had been given complete access to Charles’ private diaries. The book had Charles bemoaning the “agony” of Prince Phillip forcing him into a marriage, even as the prince was brokenhearted over his forbidden romance with Camilla Parker Bowles. Get all the shocking details that had a royal affair joining the ranks of dirty celebrity divorce scandals…
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"I can't see a light at the end of a rather appalling tunnel," Charles wrote before the 1981 wedding that played like a storybook romance to millions. "Frequently," he added, "I feel nowadays that I'm in a kind of cage, pacing up and down in it and longing to be free.
I never thought it would end up like this. How could I have got it all so wrong?"
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The diaries detailed how Prince Phillip had pressured Charles to get married after
years of avoiding the altar — and then insisting that Charles "would cause lasting damage" to Diana's reputation if he didn't propose after a lackluster courtship. Dimbleby added that the diaries showed Phillip giving Charles the option to end their romance, but the prince felt compelled to please Phillip and
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"It is just a matter of taking an unusual plunge into some rather unknown circumstances that inevitably disturbs me," Charles reportedly confided to close friends, "but I expect it will be the right thing in the end." Instead,
their divorce became a royal scandal in 1992 — and was still being settled when Diana was humiliated by the release of Dimbleby's book in 1994.
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“The agony of waiting to hear from you, not knowing if you’re dead or alive, is worse than anything I’ve ever had to endure,” she wrote to James, who was then serving as a tank commander in the 1991 Gulf War. She also wrote of her ecstasy whenever a letter from James came in the mail. “Does the earth shake when I get a letter from my desert friend. Screams of delight, tears. Demented female on the loose!”
"I can't see a light at the end of a rather appalling tunnel," Charles wrote before the 1981 wedding that played like a storybook romance to millions. "Frequently," he added, "I feel nowadays that I'm in a kind of cage, pacing up and down in it and longing to be free.
I never thought it would end up like this. How could I have got it all so wrong?"
Photo credit: Getty Images
The diaries detailed how Prince Phillip had pressured Charles to get married after
years of avoiding the altar — and then insisting that Charles "would cause lasting damage" to Diana's reputation if he didn't propose after a lackluster courtship. Dimbleby added that the diaries showed Phillip giving Charles the option to end their romance, but the prince felt compelled to please Phillip and
Queen Elizabeth.Photo credit: Getty Images
"It is just a matter of taking an unusual plunge into some rather unknown circumstances that inevitably disturbs me," Charles reportedly confided to close friends, "but I expect it will be the right thing in the end." Instead,
their divorce became a royal scandal in 1992 — and was still being settled when Diana was humiliated by the release of Dimbleby's book in 1994.
Photo credit: Getty Images
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“The agony of waiting to hear from you, not knowing if you’re dead or alive, is worse than anything I’ve ever had to endure,” she wrote to James, who was then serving as a tank commander in the 1991 Gulf War. She also wrote of her ecstasy whenever a letter from James came in the mail. “Does the earth shake when I get a letter from my desert friend. Screams of delight, tears. Demented female on the loose!”
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