The Daily Mail<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\u201cOnly much later would I discover that, as she confided to a close friend, her husband-\u00adto-\u00adbe had told her the previous day that she needed to know he was very happy to marry her, but he was not actually in love with her.\u201d he continues, adding:<\/p>\n
\u201cDiana had to absorb that hammer blow while also feeling certain that Prince Charles was entering their marriage with his heart elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThis was not the first indication Spencer had had that Diana and Charles\u2019 relationship was less than ideal.<\/p>\n
\u201cA month after her engagement, she had been photographed in tears saying goodbye to Prince Charles as he was about to board a plane on official business,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n
\u201cNewspapers cooed with delight at what they thought to be the pain of a lovestruck innocent being parted from her fianc\u00e9. The truth was very different. Diana was completely at sea, having found a bracelet that Prince Charles had bought for Camilla.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later, Spencer recalls that Diana tried to end the engagement on multiple occasions, but she was told by several people \u2014 including her own father \u2014 that it would not be possible to do so.<\/p>\n
Diana struggled with an eating disorder throughout her adult life, and Spencer says the situation was exacerbated by Charles\u2019 remarks about her weight.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer insecurity was increased a few days after the engagement announcement when Prince Charles had squeezed her waist and said, \u2018Oh, a bit chubby here, aren\u2019t we?\u2019\u201d Spencer writes, adding:<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was a comment she found devastating (she would later share with me that her waist shrank from 29 to 23\u00bd inches between her engagement and her marriage).\u201d<\/p>\n
These days, of course, Charles is king, and he\u2019s married to the woman with whom he carried on an affair while he was married.<\/p>\n
We all know that life isn\u2019t fair. But sometimes, the gap between the life a person deserves and the one they get is so massive that all we can do is shake our heads.<\/p>\n
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