Prince Charles Felt Dad Prince Philip Forced Him Into Marrying Princess Diana
The royal drama continues as more revelations come out surrounding Princess Diana and Prince Charles’s marriage.
Royal biographer Ingrid Seward, spoke to Us Weekly and revealed that Charles felt pressured by his father, Prince Philip into marrying Diana.
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Charles “felt he’d been very pushed into marrying her.”
“He told some of his friends that he felt pressurized into marrying Diana because Philip said, ‘You’ve either got to marry her or let her go. You can’t string a … young girl [along]. She’s only 19. You can’t string her along,’” he said. “And all the press is saying, ‘Oh, this is going to be the next queen.’ You’ve got to take a stand and say that this is not going to work, or you marry her.”
“Charles … he was frightened of his father and he probably thought, ‘Well, OK. I’ll marry her if that’s what you want me to do.’”
Apparently, there was also speculation that Diana would’ve been better suited for Prince Andrew as they were similar in age.
“I think some of Diana’s friends thought that Andrew would be more fun for her than Charles, because he was very much her age and he was full of fun and everything else,” Seward added. “But Diana wasn’t interested in Andrew. It was Charles she was interested in. She had been around the royal family ever since she was a little girl because her father and her family lived on the Sandringham Estate and her father was what’s called an inquiry to the queen. So, he sort of was in the royal household.”
Diana and Charles were married in 1981 and were divorced in 1996, he married Camilla in 2005.