Princess Diana married then-Prince Charles when she was only 20 years old, and like any young bride, she was hopeful that d she and her new husband would enjoy a long, happy life together as per RadarOnline.com can reveal. But when her 36-year-old husband turned out to be a cold fish, she didn’t give up.
The beautiful royal poured her heart into ink and believed if she wrote the right words – if she expressed them beautifully enough – she could bridge the distance between them.
However, for every letter sent, there was silence in return. Diana, young and full of hope, penned the tender, longing letters to her husband in the early years of their marriage. She detailed her dreams for their future and whispered affections onto pages meant to rekindle the love she thought they once shared.
However, Charles, preoccupied and emotionally distant, never wrote back.
“It’s such a sad thing to say that he never loved her, and so he never returned the compliment. He wasn’t romantic. He tried to be, but he didn’t have a romantic bone in his body,” said former royal butler Paul Burrell.
The groom, however, tried his best. The night before the July 29, 1981, wedding, Diana got a special letter and a gift from her husband-to-be.
The late royal shared: “He sent me a very nice signet ring the night before to Clarence House, with the Prince of Wales feathers on and a very nice card that said, ‘I’m so proud of you, and when you come up, I’ll be there at the altar for you tomorrow… Just look ’em in the eye and knock ’em dead.'”
Though the gift and the letter were touching, and she was “so in love” with Charles, their marriage never stood a chance. He was already in love with Camilla Parker Bowles, whom he would marry in 2005, eight years after Diana’s tragic death in a Paris car crash.
However, the People’s Princess was full of hope, which already started to ebb away on their honeymoon.
Princess Diana may might detailed her honeymoon to Charles as a “tremendous success” in a 1981 letter to her family’s former housekeeper, but she later confessed the trip was a nightmare.
As per royal author Penny Junor – who wrote the biography The Duchess – Charles packed novels and art supplies for the couple’s honeymoon, which saw them visit several destinations, including Tunisia, Algeria, Sicily, the Greek Islands, Egypt, and Scotland.
He had hoped they’d share the books and then discuss them in the evenings, but his new bride didn’t want to discuss books during the honeymoon, she wanted to spend time with him.
Junor said: “She hated his wretched books and was offended that he might prefer to bury his head in one of them rather than sit and talk to her. She resented him sitting hours at his easel, too, and they had many blazing rows.”
