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OK...here's a new thread so that we can keep wedding dresses together!
In the beginning of their marriage I felt very, very sorry for Diana. It seemed hideous that she had married for love and gotten none. It *is* tragic. I don't think she had a clue what she was getting into and probably thought she could live a fairytale with a prince who LOVED her.
Poor Camilla really got a raw deal, too, though. She was young and very pretty and in love with Charles. But he, frightened of the inability to divorce, wouldn't commit to her when she wanted to settle down. So she moved on and started a life with someone else.
Once Camilla had been married, no matter how much he loved her, Charles could not marry her. (UNLIKE the rest of us who can end marriages and remarry!) I really think they were soul mates. If you are in love with someone (I am thinking of the bracelet Charles gave Camilla just before he married Diana), the feelings don't just go away. Let's give Charles the benefit of the doubt, that-as he has claimed-he planned to cease having a romantic relationship with Camilla. The bracelet, though, was to show he would always love her-if from a distance.
Then Charles sees what a sick cookie Diana really was. Yes, he is odd and stuffy...she was a breath of fresh air. But each of them had had horrible childhoods and neither had emerged unscathed. Diana was neurotic and demanding. Charles was stuck with her. She was into astrology. She was bulemic. She was hysterical and threw herself down flights of stairs.
No one had ever nurtured Charles. He found a woman who was more grown-up and not so crazy. He remembered Camilla from the days when *she* was young and beautiful, too.
I see the whole mess as a kind of Greek tragedy in which the constraints of being a royal ruined three lives.
In the beginning of their marriage I felt very, very sorry for Diana. It seemed hideous that she had married for love and gotten none. It *is* tragic. I don't think she had a clue what she was getting into and probably thought she could live a fairytale with a prince who LOVED her.
Poor Camilla really got a raw deal, too, though. She was young and very pretty and in love with Charles. But he, frightened of the inability to divorce, wouldn't commit to her when she wanted to settle down. So she moved on and started a life with someone else.
Once Camilla had been married, no matter how much he loved her, Charles could not marry her. (UNLIKE the rest of us who can end marriages and remarry!) I really think they were soul mates. If you are in love with someone (I am thinking of the bracelet Charles gave Camilla just before he married Diana), the feelings don't just go away. Let's give Charles the benefit of the doubt, that-as he has claimed-he planned to cease having a romantic relationship with Camilla. The bracelet, though, was to show he would always love her-if from a distance.
Then Charles sees what a sick cookie Diana really was. Yes, he is odd and stuffy...she was a breath of fresh air. But each of them had had horrible childhoods and neither had emerged unscathed. Diana was neurotic and demanding. Charles was stuck with her. She was into astrology. She was bulemic. She was hysterical and threw herself down flights of stairs.
No one had ever nurtured Charles. He found a woman who was more grown-up and not so crazy. He remembered Camilla from the days when *she* was young and beautiful, too.
I see the whole mess as a kind of Greek tragedy in which the constraints of being a royal ruined three lives.