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The claim was made by Sarah Bradford, an author who has written a series of royal biographies. He explored the life of Diana, Princess of Wales in his 2006 play ‘Diana’.
The future princess met Charles in November 1977, when she was 16 years old.
Three years later they reconnected at a house party in Petworth, West Sussex.
In her book, Ms. Bradford wrote: “Diana was a lovely girl.
“It was, above all, his extraordinary power of empathy, his ability, as he later said, ‘to smell suffering’, that attracted the prince.
“Her empathy with him for Mountbatten’s death and her deep sadness and need for comfort deeply moved the Prince.
“Charles, it seemed, was strangely interested in this young woman who had actually had the self-control to reject him.”
Lord Mountbatten was assassinated, along with his 14-year-old grandson and two others, by the IRA in August 1979.
In the late 1970s, Charles was romantically involved with Anna Wallace, a Scottish heiress.
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“The first night we sat on a bale at the barbecue in this house and he had just finished with Anna Wallace. I said, “You looked so sad when you walked down the aisle at Lord Mountbatten’s funeral. It was the most tragic thing I have ever seen. My heart bled for you when I looked. I thought, ‘It’s wrong, you’re alone, you should be with someone to take care of you.’
“The next minute he practically jumped on me and I thought this was really weird too, and I wasn’t quite sure how to deal with all this.”
Charles and Diana announced their engagement in February 1981.
They were married, in London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, five months later with hundreds of millions of spectators from around the world.
However, the couple divorced in 1996, with Charles accused of having extramarital affairs with Camilla Parker Bowles, now his wife and Duchess of Cornwall.
According to Ms. Bradford, Camilla initially approved of Charles’s burgeoning relationship with Diana.
She wrote: “Lady Diana Spencer, tall and blond, curvy (as she was then) with a clear complexion of English rose, very young, of impeccable birth and without the fuss associated with her name, fit perfectly all the criteria for a bride. real. .
“Since the prince had to marry and seemed attracted to Diana, Camilla, in a spectacular misinterpretation of Diana’s true character, saw it in her own interest that Charles chose a young girl so shy that she posed no threat to her. position in your heart and mind.
“It suited her to befriend Diana and encourage Charles towards the girl she truly believed was the best option available.
“She had already effectively fired Anna Wallace.
“Diana, younger, less fiery, seemed infinitely more malleable.”
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