A new ITV documentary, titled, The Diana Interview: Revenge of a Princess, aired on Thursday (November 12) over in the United Kingdom. The documentary looked back at Princess Diana's infamous interview on BBC's Panorama in which she discussed her tumultuous marriage to Prince Charles, including his affair with now wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
Princess Diana's close friend Penny Thornton—an astrologer who was also often consulted by the late princess—made a shocking claim about the night before the royals' were wed. "One of the most shocking things that Diana told me was that the night before the wedding Charles told her that he didn't love her," Thornton revealed. "I think Charles didn't want to go into the wedding on a false premise. He wanted to square it with her and it was devastating for Diana."
After Charles dropped that bombshell, Diana "didn't want to go through with the wedding at that point, she thought about not attending the wedding," according to Thornton. The astrologer called it a "devastating" blow for her friend.
Royal biographer Ingrid Seward recently told Us Weekly that Charles and Diana were mismatched from the start. The Prince of Wales reportedly “felt he’d been very pushed into marrying” Princess Diana by his father, Prince Phillip.
As Seward tells it, the royals' inner circle felt Diana would've been a better match for either Charles' younger brothers, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward. The younger princes were much closer in age to Diana, who was 13 years younger than her husband. Diana's family lived on Queen Elizabeth's Sandringham estate, as well, and the late princess would “watch movies and things with [Prince] Edward and Andrew" when they were young.
“I think some of Diana’s friends thought that Andrew would be more fun for her than Charles, because he was very much her age and he was full of fun and everything else,” Seward explained. “But Diana wasn’t interested in Andrew. It was Charles she was interested in. She had been around the royal family ever since she was a little girl because her father and her family lived on the Sandringham Estate and her father was what’s called an inquiry to the queen. So, he sort of was in the royal household.”
Charles and Diana's relationship will be a major storyline on the new season of Netflix's historical drama The Crown, which premiered on Friday (November 13).
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