{"id":73804,"date":"2024-02-05T14:01:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T14:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/queen-elizabeth-thought-princess-diana-was-far-better-suited-to-prince-andrew-than-his-brother-prince-charles\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T14:01:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T14:01:26","slug":"queen-elizabeth-thought-princess-diana-was-far-better-suited-to-prince-andrew-than-his-brother-prince-charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/queen-elizabeth-thought-princess-diana-was-far-better-suited-to-prince-andrew-than-his-brother-prince-charles\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth &apos;thought Princess Diana was far better suited to Prince Andrew than his brother Prince Charles&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-02-05\" datetime=\"1707141686\" pubdate=\"\">5 February 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Queen Elizabeth is said to have thought Princess Diana was \u201cfar better suited\u201d to Prince Andrew than his brother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/prince-charles\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,prince-charles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Charles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Queen Elizabeth is said to have thought Princess Diana was \u2018far better suited\u2019 to Prince Andrew than his brother Prince Charles<\/p>\n<p>The late monarch \u2013 who died on 8 September 2022 aged 96 \u2013 was initially delighted by Diana, but apparently had fears she would not be able to \u201cdifferentiate\u201d Charles\u2019 royal seniority from his personality.<\/p>\n<p>Royal expert Ingrid Seward makes the claim in her new book \u2018My Mother and I\u2019, about the now-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/king-charles\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,king-charles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Charles<\/a>\u2019 relationship with his late mother.<\/p>\n<p>The book states Diana went to huge lengths to impress on the royals how much she loved the \u201cmagical\u201d surroundings of the Queen\u2019s beloved Balmoral estate in Scotland \u201cbeyond imagination\u201d, and said she loved fishing and shooting.<\/p>\n<p>But it adds about the Queen\u2019s reservations about Diana\u2019s romance with Charles: \u201cShe wondered whether anyone that young could differentiate between the man and the prince.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAnd she couldn&#8217;t help thinking that the Spencer girl would be far better suited to her younger son, Andrew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nDiana, born Diana Frances Spencer and who was killed aged 36 in August 1997 in a Paris car smash, is also said in the book to have \u201cdeterminedly\u201d set out to be the Princess of Wales.<\/p>\n<p>\nCharles, 75, divorced Diana in 1996 after their notoriously stormy marriage and married the now-Queen Camilla, 76, in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>\nPrince Andrew\u2019s reputation has never recovered from his relationship with billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein or the allegations made against him by one of Epstein\u2019s sex trafficking victims, Virginia Giuffre, that the royal slept with her when she was 17.<\/p>\n<p>\nAndrew has vehemently denied all claims made against him by Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>\nIngrid\u2019s book is out on 15 February and is billed as \u201ca vivid and revealing portrait of the real relationship between King Charles III and his mother\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\nA blurb for the biography says: \u201cThe relationship between the late monarch and her son, the King, has long been a subject of fascination\u2026 this is the story of how Charles was shaped and moulded by his heritage.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cHis mother was the woman he loved but could never be close to, and it wasn&#8217;t until his mother\u2019s old age, he finally received the affection and respect from her he had craved for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/queen-elizabeth-thought-princess-diana-far-better-suited-prince-andrew-brother-prince-charles-1394049.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 February 2024 Queen Elizabeth is said to have thought Princess Diana was \u201cfar better suited\u201d to Prince Andrew than his brother Prince Charles. Queen Elizabeth is said to have thought Princess Diana was \u2018far better suited\u2019 to Prince Andrew than his brother Prince Charles The late monarch \u2013 who died on 8 September 2022 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6369,6368,842,244,841,85,134,81,843],"class_list":{"0":"post-73804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-diana-frances-spencer","9":"tag-ingrid-seward","10":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-prince-andrew","13":"tag-prince-charles","14":"tag-princess-diana","15":"tag-queen-elizabeth","16":"tag-virginia-giuffre"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}