It’s not a secret that Prince Charles and Princess Diana had, for the most part, a tumultuous marriage—but one comment the former Prince of Wales said to his wife during a heated argument crossed the line.
According to Diana’s former butler Paul Burrell, whose book The Royal Insider: The Queen, the King, and Princess Diana
comes out next January, during one tense exchange Charles revealed he “never loved” her during “one of their epic arguments,”
with Burrell adding that Charles said, “I only married you to have children.”
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Princess Diana and Prince Charles on their July 29, 1981 wedding day.Getty
In an excerpt serialized by The Daily Mail, Burrell wrote, “I didn’t realize that I had entered a war zone when I left the Queen’s [Elizabeth] service in 1987 to work for Charles and Diana.” At that time, Charles and Diana, who married in 1981, were still five long years away from their 1992 separation and eventual 1996 divorce. Charles had taken up again with his mistress, Camilla Parker Bowles, and Burrell wrote that Diana “always loved Charles, but she despised Camilla Parker Bowles, the ‘other woman.’”
According to Burrell, Diana said of Charles that “He never wanted a lover. He wanted a mother.”
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