A royal commentator believes King Charles wants his grandchildren to be “unafraid” in love as they grow into adulthood. Most of all, he doesn’t want them to repeat his mistakes regarding relationships. The king would instead they follow their heart than royal duty when it comes to whom they chose to spend their life with.
King Charles wants his grandchildren to learn from his relationship mistakes
Before marrying Princess Diana, King Charles spent the better part of his 20s and 30s dating a string of beautiful women. He appeared to be searching for companionship and the woman who would eventually become the United Kingdom’s queen.
He found that woman early on in Camilla Parker Bowles. However, because she had several serious relationships, she was not considered wife material for a future king. They parted ways, and Camilla married Andrew Parker Bowles.
However, Camilla was never far from Charles’ heart, even after he met and proposed to then-Lady Diana Spencer. Royal commentator Chandrika Kaul, Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews, shared that Charles likely hopes his grandchildren don’t follow in his romantic footsteps, reported Express.
“I think King Charles is very keen that his grandchildren don’t make the mistakes that I think he feels he made. Particularly when it came to matters of the heart,” Kaul said of the children of Prince William and Kate Middleton, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis. Kaul made the statement during a broadcast of The Fab Five: The King’s Grandchildren.
“What I think he wants to do is try and help these young grandchildren grow up in as normal a way as possible. Create more fully rounded human beings who are unafraid of their emotions and who are able to have the confidence to marry whom they want,” they continued.
One particular moment was a red flag in Charles and Diana’s early relationship
From the moment they began courting to their relationship, King Charles and Princess Diana met in person 13 times. The couple had dated for six months before Charles proposed marriage to Diana in Buckingham Palace’s nursery under pressure from the monarchy to settle down with a suitable young woman.
Charles’ proposal was in February 1981. By July of that same year, he and Diana married in a lavish ceremony watched worldwide. The Archbishop of Canterbury called the wedding “the stuff of which fairy tales were made.”
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Professor Paul cited an incident just weeks before the couple’s 1981 nuptials. Diana found a package containing a bracelet engaged with the letters G and F. These initials were short for Gladys and Fred, nicknames Charles and Camilla used for each other.
Diana told her version of the bracelet incident to Andrew Morton for a tell-all book
Before it began, Princess Diana’s discovery of a gift meant for Camilla Parker Bowles greatly affected her relationship with King Charles. In the Andrew Morton book “Diana: Her True Story,” the Princess of Wales visited the office of Michael Colborne, who was then Charles’ secretary.
She said: “I was still too immature to understand all the messages coming my way. And then someone in his office told me my husband had a bracelet made for her.”
Diana continued, “I walked into this man’s office one day and said, ‘Ooh, what’s in that parcel?’ And he said, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t look at that.’”
“So I opened it, and there was the bracelet.” Diana told Morton: “I was devastated, and I said, ‘Well, he’s going to give it to her tonight.’ So rage, rage, rage. You know, ‘Why can’t you be honest with me?’ But no, absolutely cut me dead. It was as if he’d made his decision, and if it wasn’t going to work, it wasn’t going to work.”
From the beginning of their relationship and marriage until its end, Charles’ love for Camilla overshadowed his marriage to Diana. Two years after Diana’s untimely death in 1997, Charles and Camilla made their public debut as a couple. In 2005 Charles and Camilla wed. In 2023, they were crowned king and queen consort of the United Kingdom.
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