Shortly before yesterday's 11am statement from the Palace about 30 uniformed police officers stationed themselves outside Lady Diana's Old Brompton Road flat, from which she will move. With yesterday's announcement there was a dramatic change in status for Lady Diana, who for five months has had to cope by herself with the immense pressures brought by worldwide press interest in the her relationship with Prince Charles. I just camp there whenever I can."Īsked about how she would cope with her role, Lady Diana, who was wearing her sapphire and diamond engagement ring, replied: "Well, naturally it is quite daunting, but I hope it won't be too difficult, and with Prince Charles beside me I can't go wrong." She said she had "never had any doubts." "It will be marvellous to have someone to take it on and organise everything because it's completely empty at the moment. But at the moment High Grove, and there is an awful lot to be done there. "I dare say we shall probably try to find somewhere in London to have as a base as well. He said he hoped they would live at the Gloucestershire house, High Grove, he bought last year. "But in fact you accepted." Lady Diana replied with a laugh: "More or less straight away." "She had planned to go to Australia quite a long time before anyway with her mother and I thought 'well I'll ask her then so that she'll have a chance of thinking it over when she's away and saying I can't bear the whole idea - or not, as the case may be.' In a BBC Radio interview Prince Charles said he proposed to Lady Diana three weeks ago. The couple spent most of yesterday posing for photographs and giving interviews to the Press Association, the BBC and ITN. ![]() She was absolutely delighted, thrilled, blissfully happy," to be engaged. I just feel you are as old as you think you are." Lady Diana said: "I have never thought about it."Īsked about her ability to cope with being in the public eye Lady Diana said she viewed public appearances with a certain concern, "but I very much look forward to meeting lots of different people." I mean, it's only 12 years and lots of people have got married with that sort of age difference. "I think that Diana will keep me young, apart from anything else," he said, as both of them laughed. He showed no hesitation or embarrassment in discussing the most sensitive issue in their engagement - their 12-year age difference. And this was the spirit which yesterday came through in interviews in which the two giggled repeatedly over their early acquaintanceship. He also remembered thinking "what fun she was" on first meeting Lady Diana in November, 1977, when she was 16. The couple became engaged three weeks ago after what Prince Charles admitted yesterday had been a military operation to keep the later stages of their courtship secret. She said the series covers Diana's life from the age of 16 to 28 and she found her character's arc "incredible", as it was very sensitive and intimate.The wedding, expected by Debrett to be the last great state event of the 20th century, is likely to be in late July. Across the series she goes on a transformational journey to become a global superstar, but the fairytale marriage portrayed in the world’s media isn’t quite what it appears to be." "After a brief courtship, Charles proposes and Diana is quickly propelled from the life of a normal teenage girl into one as the Princess of Wales. As mentioned in the series, she worked as a playgroup assistant and did cleaning work for her sister and her friends.Īctress Corrin introduced her character, saying: "Hailing from one of the grandest and most established aristocratic families in the country, when she meets Prince Charles as an impressionable teenager she quickly falls in love. She later attended West Heath Girls' School in Kent but left when she was 16 - the same age she met the prince.ĭiana was known to have less of an academic and more of an artistic character, excelling in music, dance and drama. The Crown season 4: Did Camilla really invite Princess Diana to lunch? Diana had been homeschooled for a while, before starting formal education at Silfield Private School in Norfolk.ĭid the Queen really DISLIKE Margaret Thatcher? ĭid Princess Diana have an eating disorder in real life? They were married after six months and their wedding was one of the most iconic moments in Royal history.īorn in Sandringham, Diana grew up with two sisters - Sarah and Jane, and a brother Charles. Charles ended up taking Diana out on a date to the opera, and they could not help but steal glances at each other during the performance.įollowing their first date, they found it hard to keep apart from each other, and it was Camilla Parker Bowles (Emerald Fennell) who told Charles to pursue the relationship.Ĭharles had been 12 years older than Diana, but their age gap did not get in the way of their feelings for each other and they were engaged when Diana was just 19.
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