Princess Diana was engaged to Prince Charles when his 'Royal Train Scandal' involving a blonde broke out. In his new book, Earl Spencer revealed the Princess's reaction to the controversy.
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Add BollywoodShaadis on GoogleAlmost three decades after Princess Diana’s passing, her mysterious life still raises many eyebrows. The woman, who was nothing less than a dream, was the favorite subject for tabloids. From her troubled marriage to Prince Charles to the conspiracy theories around her death, Diana never ceased to stay in the headlines. Now, her brother, Earl Spencer, has shared an unknown bombshell about the late princess’ marital life.
In the 1980s, when Diana and Prince Charles had just begun their courtship, a scandal broke out. It was the ‘Royal Train Scandal’, involving Prince Charles and a blonde. According to the tabloids, Prince Charles had hosted a secret blonde woman on the Royal Train at a Wiltshire railway siding. The report also said the prince spent several hours alone on the train with the mystery woman.
Because Prince Charles was courting Diana at the time, newspapers reported that the woman was none other than 19-year-old Diana herself. However, Buckingham Palace and Diana strongly denied the reports. Diana also revealed being 50 miles away from the site of the incident.
In his book Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, Earl Spencer detailed the incident and revealed Diana’s reaction when the scandal broke out. According to Spencer, Prince Charles was the only member of his family on the train when a blonde woman was spotted boarding. The reports further claimed that Charles had, disgracefully, used the publicly funded vehicle for a tryst with Diana.
But according to Spencer, Diana was shocked to learn the news, as she knew it was not her on the train. Spencer wrote in his book that after her marriage broke down, Diana realized the blonde in question was none other than Camilla Parker-Bowles. In his words:
“As it was not Diana, then who was the blonde? After her marriage took the direction it did, Diana became convinced that she must have been Camilla Parker-Bowles - particularly as the railway siding was just 19 miles from Camilla’s home.”
Before marrying Princess Diana, Prince Charles was in love with socialite Camilla Shand. But the royal family didn’t approve of their marriage, and the two split up. However, despite Camilla and Charles's respective marriages, they continued to see each other. There were rumors that Charles and Diana were not compatible.
However, more than compatibility, Diana blamed Charles' affair with Camilla and her presence in the marriage for the discord in the royal marriage. In a popular interview, Diana famously said, "There were three of us in the marriage. It was a bit crowded." In 1992, it was officially announced that Diana and Charles had separated and were co-parenting their two children. A few years later, they officially divorced in 1996. A year after the divorce, Princess Diana died at the age of 36 in a road accident.
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