As a longtime royal admirer turned royal reporter, I’ve always attributed the end of Princess Diana and then-Prince Charles’s fifteen-year marriage to the affair the future king had with his now-wife, Camilla Parker Bowles. But reportedly, that’s not the main reason why the former Princess of Wales decided to call it quits and file for divorce.
Earlier this month, Ingrid Seward (who wrote The Queen and Di and Prince Philip Revealed) exclusively sat down with The Sun and revealed the surprising confession “The People’s Princess” made about her marriage before she died in 1997.
According to Seward, before her untimely death (and over a year after the couple’s divorce was finalized), Princess Diana candidly told her why her marriage to the future King Charles crumbled. “She had this specter of Camilla in her head the whole time,” Seward told the outlet. “She was obsessed. Yet, when I last spoke to her, I brought Camilla up, and she said, ‘Oh, it wasn’t Camilla that ruined our marriage.’”
