Princess Diana and Prince Charles' divorce: The Messy Truth in Tarnishing the Crown
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| Princess Diana and Prince Charles' divorce: The Messy Truth in Tarnishing the Crown |
The Netflix series The Crown has been plodding along, telling the tale of Queen Elizabeth II's highs and lows as a wife, mother, daughter, sister, and, above all, monarch, with the majority of events being ripped from reality and the blanks being filled in by the writers of the show in an intuitive manner.
However, everything was really just a build-up to season 5, which covers the part of the royal family's history where polite behavior dramatically deviated from the norm.
Of course, we're referring to the dissolution of Prince Charles and Princess Diana's marriage, which was as exciting as it was when Prime Minister John Major objected to the queen's request for a government-funded yacht restoration. which, as evidenced by The Crown's fourth season, was already in jeopardy when they exchanged vows in 1981.
However, after exchanging vows in front of 3,500 guests at St. Paul's Cathedral and an additional 750 million viewers on television, the couple reportedly decided to stay together for the foreseeable future. In addition to undertaking the responsibilities expected of the Prince and Princess of Wales, they traveled the globe, gave birth to Prince William and Prince Harry, and raised them.
Diana said on the taped interviews she gave to writer Andrew Morton in 1991, "I've got what my mother's had." "You can put on the most incredible show of happiness, no matter how bloody you feel."
What was Princess Diana's account of her union with Prince Charles?
Morton heard Diana describe a vicious cycle in which she felt her husband's lack of support for her challenging new role from day one. She didn't trust him either because she thought he was still seeing his married ex, Camilla Parker Bowles, romantically.
Diana went on to say that Charles rejected what she admitted were her clear calls for assistance, including incidents of self-harm like hurling herself down the stairs while pregnant with William in 1982. She claimed that Charles called her a "crying wolf."
Charles did make arrangements for Diana to see a psychiatrist in the fall of 1982, despite the fact that he was unsure of how to assist his wife. In a letter to a friend, he said, "The trouble is, one day I think some steps are being made uphill only to find that we've slid back one and a half steps the following day," according to Jonathan Dimbleby's 1994 biography The Prince of Wales.
Despite her passionate affection for her children, Diana characterized the two-year period between the births of William and Harry in 1984 as "complete blackness. I have blocked out most of what I recall because it was so painful."
She was clearly establishing herself as a public figure at the same time, far more well-liked than her husband thanks to her extraordinary knack for connecting with people.
Diana said to Morton, "Everyone believed I was having a great time since I had a smile on my face." They decided to believe that because it made them feel better.
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