Princess Diana ‘Loved Charles Right Until the End’ and Believed They Could Have Reunited
EXCLUSIVE: Royal author Ingrid Seward opens up to The Royal Observer about her intimate conversations with the late Princess of Wales — and Diana’s private feelings about Charles.
PRINCESS Diana still loved then-Prince Charles right until the end of her life.
That’s according to Royal Biographer Ingrid Seward, who opened up about the intimate conversations she shared with the Late Princess of Wales. After taking part in the discredited BBC Panorama interview, Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth wrote to her son and daughter-in-law, urging the couple to divorce. This was after three years of separation that was engulfed in media speculation and reporting of the pair’s mutual infidelities.
Ingrid Seward pondered whether Diana would approve of the attacks in her brother’s book against the King, because ultimately, she still loved him. Speaking on The Royal Observer’s Palace Unfiltered, she remarked: “[The accusations are] the last thing in the world that Diana ever would have wanted, because she loved Charles. She loved him right until the end.” The esteemed author even claimed that Diana wanted to one day ‘get back together’ with her royal ex-husband.
“She also had the hope that one day they might have got back together,” Seward told me. “She said to me, ‘We just met at the wrong time’, and she said, ‘If we'd met at the right time’, when you know she was a bit older and he was a bit older, she felt it might have worked.
Ingrid has just released her new book, Catherine & Diana: The inside story of how the Princesses of Wales shaped the modern monarchy, where she explored the role of the Princess of Wales in detail. The esteemed author was also reportedly one of the last journalists to be invited to Kensington Palace for lunch by Princess Diana before she tragically died in 1997.
Seward explained to the Royal Observer that in the year after Charles and Diana’s divorce was finalised in 1996, the pair shared a closer and friendlier relationship. “Charles and Diana were getting on quite well … They had a sort of more mature relationship at the end,” Seward stated. “They were joined by their sadness that they hadn't managed to make the marriage work because they knew that together they could have done great things, and they did for a short period of time until Diana overshadowed everything that Charles did.”
The biographer added: “There was a moment of togetherness, and Diana actually said to me, ‘It's so sad because we could have conquered the world.’ I think had Diana and Charles been more mature, both of them. I mean, Diana was 19, and yes, she did know a bit about the royal world.”
Seward also told me that Diana didn’t necessarily want a divorce from her husband, and at the time, then-Prince Charles didn’t press on so he could marry Camilla, but simply wanted to put an end to the spiralling press war between the pair.
“I think Diana didn't want a divorce,” Seward remarked. “But I do think that Charles wanted to push for this divorce, not to marry Camilla. He wasn't even thinking about that at the time.”
She continued: “He just knew that the shenanigans, the war of the Waleses, if you like, it was just destroying him, and he needed to be free of it.” The eminent commentator added: “I don't think at the time anyone envisaged him marrying Camilla, so it was just that situation that had to be clarified. Of course, the finality of it did upset them and upset them both.”
