Princess Diana Reportedly Turned to This Royal Family Member to Tearfully Vent About King Charles

Alice Kelly
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Princess Diana‘s tragic years spent trying to survive in the British royal family during her failing marriage to King Charles III is getting another glance in a new biography about the reigning monarch and his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II.

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Ingrid Seward, the editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, has spent over 20 years covering the royal family and is set to unveil many claims from insiders in her upcoming book My Mother and I: The Inside Story of the King and Our Late Queen, which is available for preorder now ahead of its August release.

In an interview with Fox News, Seward claimed Queen Elizabeth was often the person Princess Diana turned too during her troubled marriage to the then-prince.

“Diana used to go to her private room in between appointments that the queen had, which were every 20 minutes, and burst into tears,” Seward told Fox. “[She would say], ‘Everybody hates me mama, and I hate my husband. He’s a nightmare.'”

“The queen would just stand there [horrified], and Diana would be getting more and more hysterical,” Seward further claimed. “[The queen] didn’t know how to handle it, but she thought Charles should know how to handle it. That was a very low point in the relationship.”

Charles and Diana’s relationship began about a year before their 1981 marriage but trouble brewed early due to Charles’ longtime affair with now-wife Queen Camilla. Their affair is believed to have picked up in 1986 after previously dating before Charles and Diana’s courtship began.

Seward claims that the queen struggled to see why her son and his wife couldn’t contain their marriage problems.

“It had a huge impact,” Seward explained. “The queen couldn’t understand how her son, who was in his early 30s, couldn’t handle a woman who was only in her early 20s. And she didn’t understand because she didn’t have the experience to understand something like that.”

“Remember the cloistered world of the royal family, especially in those days,” Seward continued. “They didn’t have to ever deal with moral conflict because there was always someone else to do it for them. If you didn’t want to talk to someone, the switchboard at Buckingham Palace would just not put them through. So, you never had to take on things. And the queen wasn’t used to doing this.”

In 1992, shortly before announcing their separation, Diana and Charles’ marriage issues were confirmed by the former Princess of Wales  in Andrew Morton’s book, Diana Her True Story. In it, she detailed her mental health struggles.

“I threw myself down the stairs [at Sandringham],” said Diana of an incident during her pregnancy with Prince William. “Charles said I was crying wolf, and I said I felt so desperate, and I was crying my eyes out, and he said, ‘I’m not going to listen. You’re always doing this to me. I’m going riding now.’”

“So I threw myself down the stairs,” said Diana, as quoted by the book. “The queen comes out, absolutely horrified, shaking – she was so frightened. I knew I wasn’t going to lose the baby; quite bruised around the stomach.”

Before you go, click here to see Princess Diana’s most scandalous royal moments. 
Before you go, click here to see Princess Diana’s most scandalous royal moments.

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