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Depression, Anxiety, bulimia, self-harming, and very likely Borderline Personality Disorder. She had psychiatric/psychotherapeutic treatment on and off from the first months of the marriage until her death. Diana and Charles had years to make their marriage work before Camilla came back. I...

Diana's marriage was destroyed by her mental illness and the couple's incompatability. Camilla was incidental to the destruction- if she had never been born, the marriage would have broken down just the same. The impression that Camilla was partly to blame came from Diana (and Morton), who...

Incas-- I was talking about after the separation, not after the divorce.

Does the church take no account of the fact that the original spouse has remarried? It's not as if Camilla could go back to her marriage with Andrew.

After the separation, the palace still controlled the purse strings for staff, holidays etc. She wanted control of her life. Diana would never admit she wanted a divorce or separation in public because it might reflect badly on her and affect her divorce settlement. She also had a "pathological...

I think she was thinking about how to get out of her marriage for a long time. The timing of the Morton book and Panorama interview are interesting. I wonder (just fantasizing) if after she went to the Queen in 1986 about getting out of the marriage, there was an informal schedule for ending the...

This information is from Gyles Brandreth's book published this year. GB has spoken to Royal Family members and friends. He said the woman on the train was Camilla. As for the passion, these occasions were birthday bashes beginning with Charles' birthday in 11/79 where their dancing was...

The Queen had a duty to ensure the smooth succession of the crown to Diana's child. She had to keep a positive working relationship with her. If Diana had got the idea that the Queen had turned against her, think what she might have done. I think that is the difference between the Queen and her...

They were seen on a number of occasions dancing together all evening and kissing passionately dance after dance. Camilla was the woman on the train. However, Cam also said she was in love with Andrew at this time, so "whatever love means".

I agree that the age difference didn't help, but Diana had friends later on of the maternal sort that were older than her, like Raine Spencer, Annabel Goldsmith, Rosa Moncton, Lucia F de L. I think the problem was also to do with Di's lack of education which made her feel out of place and...

There were 'lies' in this interview, though I'm not sure that lies had the same import to Diana as to most of us, or even that she always knew she was doing it.

Prince Charles's interest in organic farming and gardening AFTER famously creating a showpiece organic garden at Highgrove, Prince Charles has rolled up his sleeves and dug deep to do the same at his Scottish home. The Prince has applied for full organic certification from the Soil...

I think the motive was to put the Parker-Bowles back into the "friends and neighbours" box. Charles and Diana, Camilla and Andrew could all be friends together in future. But Di wasn't emotionally mature enough to tolerate such a sophisticated arrangement.

According to Ingrid Seward, Barnes and Diana got on to begin with but Di kept interfering between Barnes and the boys and undermining her authority. Barnes was told not to raise her voice to or spank them--when there was a difference of opinion between herself and one of the boys, Barnes was to...

Yes I agree. Charles said he only saw Camilla once during the engagement, to give her the thank you bracelet.

It was Diana who first asked him to give an interview to Richard Kay to lay some of the rumours and gossip to rest. He was passed on to Anna Pasternak and decided to do the book. He told Di about it and said she was "unconcerned" by the documentary of his life it was meant to be. But Pasternak...

Demoted in 1991 and dropped by Di, redundant in 1993, book in 1994, after both Di and Ch had given their stories to the public.

Thanks for the description, it's clear Camilla wasn't in his rooms-- love the bit about the cold supper! I don't think she was there either, I only meant that they could have got together somewhere that evening, it wouldn't have to be in his rooms-- so Barry might not know. As I understand it...

Stories about the affair started coming out in the press in 1991 while Hewitt was still in the Gulf, not his fault. As more came out, his career prospects eroded away. The army could ignore the affair if it wasn't public, but couldn't tolerate an officer having a relationship with a future...

I think you have to separate Hewitt's book Love and War from all the tabloid muck. Hewitt blames the tabloids for ending his affair with Diana, and has been stitched up by them over and over, often involving female reporters. His account of how they aided and abetted the theft of Diana's letters...

Thanks for that Ysbel, it's not available through the library system, nor is Little Girl Lost by Mary Clarke, Di's nanny. How Barry left is important if there was some resentment against Ch or Di because of it.

I'd like to read this too if I could get hold of it. Do you know why Barry stopped working for Charles--did Diana have anything to do with it? Charles denies sleeping with Camilla before the eve of the wedding, but not having a body in the bed in the morning is not proof of it. The cufflinks...

Corazon, the woman on the train incident was in November 1980, a few months before the engagement. Charles did not claim to be faithful before the wedding, only after it.

According to Hewitt, Diana craved freedom from her loveless marriage throughout their time together. She felt the Queen was the only person who could help her, but the Queen, although sympathetic, had a duty to ensure the smooth succession of the crown, and refused to intervene.

Charles and friends said quite a lot about the marriage in the Dimbleby book, but in a more sympathetic style. Also let's not forget that Charles' friends didn't need the money like Diana's friends. I don't think she minded about Hewitt telling his story, but didn't like the style of the book...