Princess Diana Reportedly Thought Prince Charles’s Emotions Were “Suffocated at Birth”

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From Cosmopolitan

  • Princess Diana reportedly thought Prince Charles didn’t know anything about love.

  • Royal biographer Ingrid Seward said Princess Diana told her how Prince Charles wasn’t raised in an affectionate household.


Royal fans already knew that Prince Charles and Princess Diana had an unhappy marriage, and according to royal biographer Ingrid Seward, their relationship was filled with intimacy issues that definitely stemmed from Charles’s upbringing.

In her soon-to-be-released biography about Prince Philip, Seward didn’t hold back when it came to reporting some alleged statements from the People’s Princess. According to Seward, Diana thought the only thing Charles “learned about love was shaking hands.” Seward didn’t mince words and straight-up claimed Charles suffers from “emotional retentiveness.” Damn. Drag him.

Speaking of Charles’s childhood, Seward claimed Diana once told her that Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II never gave Charles any “hands-on love.” Philip allegedly attended only two of Charles’s first eight birthday parties and was often away at sea as a naval officer, according to Seward. She also said at one point during Charles’s infancy, Elizabeth and Philip left him and his younger sister, Princess Anne, in England as they spent Christmas in Malta.

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Seward added, “Diana reckoned that if Charles had been brought up in the normal fashion, he would have been better able to handle his and her emotions. Instead, she said, his feelings seemed to have been suffocated at birth.”

Continuing to summarize Diana’s supposed sentiments, Seward continued, “Only his nannies showed him affection but that, as Diana explained, was not the same as being kissed and cuddled by your parents, which Charles never was. When he met his parents, they didn’t embrace: They shook hands.”

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Ultimately, this allegedly led to Charles being unable to “be tactile with his own wife,” adding yet another layer to their already-complex relationship.

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