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- 1977: Prince Charles and Diana Spencer are introduced by Lady Sarah. The Prince of Wales and the former nanny first made each other's acquaintance at Althorp, the Spencer family home, as Diana would later recall to the BBC.
- November 14, 1978: Diana attends Prince Charles' 30th birthday party. Despite seemingly hitting it off during their first meeting, it would be more than a year before Charles began courting Diana.
- July 1980: Prince Charles and Diana bond at the home of a mutual friend. Diana received an invite from mutual friend Philip de Pass to stay at his home in July 1980, when Prince Charles would also be staying.
- 1980: Prince Charles courts Diana. After that trip, the Prince of Wales continued to court the young Diana. "We met 13 times and we got married," she revealed in her tapes, according to ABC News.
- November 1977: Charles Meets Diana
- November 1978: The Prince’s Birthday Bash
- July 1980: A Royal Romance Begins
- September 1980: Diana Passes The 'Balmoral Test'
- February 1981: Official Engagement and The 'Whatever in Love Means' Sound Bite
- July 1981: The Royal Wedding
- August 1981: The Honeymoon
- June 1982 to September 1984: The Couple's 2 Sons Are Born
- Affairs, Tensions and A 'Greek Tragedy'
- Tell-All and Separation
Diana was just 16 years old when Prince Charles, nearly 13 years her senior, first visited her family’s West Northamptonshire estate, Althorp House, in November of 1977. He was there to take part in a grouse hunt at the invitation of Diana’s older sister, Lady Sarah Spencer, who’d briefly been linked to the eligible prince herself. Years later, dur...
One year later, Charles and Diana crossed paths again, this time at Buckingham Palace for his 30th birthday celebration, which Diana received an invitation to attend, as did her sister, Sarah. In Andrew Morton’s “Diana: Her True Story, In Her Own Words,” Diana — who had a major hand in the creation of the book, recording her memories on audio tapes...
In July of 1980, Diana, now a 19-year-old woman, came face-to-face with Charles once more. This time, Diana — in Morton's book — said the Prince of Wales made a bold display of his affections. Per Morton’s book, a mutual friend, Philip de Pass, invited Diana to spend some time at his family’s home in Sussex, telling her that Charles would be there ...
Just two months later, Diana was invited for a meaningful stay at the queen’s sprawling Scottish residence in Aberdeenshire, Balmoral Castle, where her budding relationship with Charles and her suitability as a partner would be tested by his friends and family, and most importantly, by the monarch herself. In Tina Brown’s “The Diana Chronicles,” Lo...
As the spotlight on Diana grew, and tabloid stories began speculatingabout intimacy between the popular couple, Charles’ father, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, felt it was time for his son to take action. As author Sarah Bradford put it in “Diana: Finally, the Complete Story,” Philip suggested that Charles “should either propose to Lady Diana Sp...
Charles and Diana were married on July 29, 1981. Their lavish ceremony at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London presented the public with a spectacle like no other as the British heir apparent swapped vows with his much younger and wildly popular bride. The bride wore a ruffled, ivory silk gown, complete with a 25-foot-long train — longer than any worn by...
According to Diana, the couple's post-wedding vacation wasn’t exactly a romantic follow-up to their vow-swap. “I just had tremendous hope in me, which was slashed by day two,” Diana said in tapes she recorded for Morton's biography. Diana noted that Charles brought seven novels by Laurens ven der Post, one of his favorite authors. "He read them and...
Diana gave birth to the couple’s first son, Prince William, June 21, 1982, providing a new heir to the British throne. And on September 15, 1984, they welcomed their second son, Prince Harry. But what the public didn’t know, until many years later, was that Diana suffered from postpartum depression after her first pregnancy and began to self-harm, ...
Rumors of tensions between Charles and Diana grew in the years following the birth of their sons, but the public wouldn’t learn the full extent of what was going on behind the scenes until much later. For Charles, 1986 was the year he rekindled a romance with longtime friend and former flame Camilla Parker Bowles, who was also married at the time t...
Morton’s book, the extremely candid biography “Diana: Her True Story,” was published in 1992. At the time, Morton denied that Diana had been a primary source; after her death in 1997, he revealed she had, in fact, supplied the book's insider insight directly. The book's publication marked the first time the public learned the full extent of the tro...
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Nov 9, 2022 · Diana and Charles were introduced in November 1977 at her family home at Althorp, where the prince was taking part in a grouse hunt. At the time, she was 16 and he was 29, per The Telegraph.
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May 5, 2023 · From the outside looking in, Diana and Charles looked very much like a young couple in love. However, the princess-to-be still had doubts about her future husband.
Sep 2, 2011 · Subscribe to Iconic: http://bit.ly/zVEuIYPrince Charles and Princess Diana with a young Prince William.
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Jul 22, 2022 · After just a few months of dating, Prince Charles surprised a young Diana by proposing in Windsor Castle on February 3, 1981.
Nov 9, 2022 · Wondering what is fact over fiction? Here, a historical timeline of the beginning, middle, and end of their relationship. The Beginning: Country-Home Courtship to Church. Prince Charles and Lady...
