As King Charles and Queen Camilla put together to have a good time their twentieth marriage ceremony anniversary on April 9, a royal insider says the monarch continues to be haunted by regrets from his first marriage.
In response to the Each day Mail, a supply near the King revealed he “deeply regrets the ache and unhappiness triggered” throughout his turbulent relationship with the late Princess Diana.
The insider added that “each Charles and Diana behaved badly in that first marriage and made selections that none of us may ever condone,” however famous that hindsight presents new perspective.
“Whenever you look again on it now, asking somebody to sacrifice… happiness for the sake of their public persona appears actually fairly merciless.”
Regardless of public backlash following Diana’s loss of life, Camilla stood agency. A pal of the Queen Consort shared, “I don’t assume she was ever going to [step away from the spotlight]. She was dedicated to him.”
The couple’s 2005 marriage wasn’t with out its hurdles. A former courtier recalled how the Church of England and the late Queen Elizabeth posed two important obstacles. The Archbishop of Canterbury on the time was reportedly “unwilling to grant them permission to get married in a church.”
As a substitute, the couple settled for a civil ceremony at Windsor’s Guildhall — later described as “a sublime compromise.”
Now, 20 years later, they’ll mark the milestone at a black-tie State Banquet in Italy, hosted by President Sergio Mattarella.
