Recently discovered footage of Prince Charles and Diana’s infamous engagement interview emerged, showing the Princess of Wales looking “clearly dissatisfied” after her future husband’s comments asking if the couple were “in love”.
On February 24, 1981, after months of speculation, a 32-year-old Charles who had long “needed” to find a bride was marrying an excited 19-year-old, then known as Lady Diana Spencer.
When they were asked – at the Buckingham Palace photo shoot – whether they loved each other, Charles’s response to Diana’s ‘of course’ was unforgettable: ‘Whatever it means in love.’
The clip is usually interrupted immediately after Charles’s comment, but a new footage, which airs on Channel 5 on Sunday, shows the face of royalty and shows clear dissatisfaction with Charles’s mistake.
Royal experts said the footage was “shocking” and “incredible” forty years later.
‘The expression on his face is so eloquent.
“I have never seen her show dissatisfaction with him on camera so clearly before, it is a remarkable piece of footage,” royal historian Piers Brendon told the documentary.
“It’s amazing to look at it now, I haven’t seen it before,” writer Richard Kay adds.
“The silence between the two pays dearly,” he added.
Recently discovered footage of Prince Charles and Diana’s infamous engagement interview emerged, showing the Princess of Wales looking “clearly dissatisfied” after her future husband’s comments asking if the couple were “in love”.
Royal biographer Angela Levin said the interview was one of the first signs showing the difference and potential problems between Spencers and Windsors.
“Diana really couldn’t be a Spencer and show what she felt had to be a Windsor, to keep it a secret,” she said.
“Charles didn’t know how to answer a question about his emotions.
“Don’t forget that he was brought up by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to hide what they felt,” she added.
On February 24, 1981, after months of speculation, a 32-year-old Charles who had long “needed” to find a bride was marrying an excited 19-year-old, then known as Lady Diana Spencer. When they were asked – at the Buckingham Palace photo shoot – whether they loved each other, Charles’s response to Diana’s “of course” was unforgettable: “Whatever it means in love”.
“You can actually see the light going out behind her eyes, she almost felt a worldwide collapse,” added Diana’s biographer Andrew Morton.
It comes as a clip of Princess Diana’s infamous interview with Martin Bashir in which she discusses feeling ‘unsupported’ by the royal ‘establishment’ has resurfaced and sparked comparisons to Meghan Markle’s bombshell meeting with Oprah Winfrey.
The Duchess of Sussex told the chat presenter that “she could not be left alone” and confessed that she “did not want to be alive anymore” before claiming that the HR department at Buckingham Palace ignored her request for help because she was not a ‘paid employee’.
The clip is usually stopped immediately after Charles’s comment, but a new footage, which airs on Channel 5 on Sunday, shows the face of royalty and shows clear dissatisfaction with Charles’s mistake (photo)
She claimed that she was’ silenced ‘by Buckingham Palace officials, who told her to always reply’ without comment ‘because they would’ protect her ‘, adding:’ It was only when we got married and it all started to really get worse that I got to understand that not only was I not being protected, but they were willing to lie to protect other family members, but they were not willing to tell the truth to protect me and my husband. ‘
Meghan told Oprah that she later sought out one of Dian’a’s best friends because she felt unsupported by the palace, and said that Harry had ‘saved [her] life ‘agreeing to move to Los Angeles.
After the two-hour interview with Oprah aired in the US on CBS on Sunday, American filmmaker Ava DuVernay shared a clip of Diana’s 1995 interview with BBC Panorama to Twitter.
A clip reappeared from Princess Diana’s infamous interview with Martin Bashir in which she discusses feeling “unsupported” by the royal “establishment” drew comparisons to Meghan Markle’s bombastic encounter with Oprah Winfrey
The Duchess of Sussex told the chat presenter that “she couldn’t be left alone” and confessed that she “didn’t want to be alive anymore” before claiming that the HR department at Buckingham Palace ignored her request for help because she was not a ‘paid employee’
In it, the Princess of Wales explains why she felt that “the establishment” in which she married “decided that [she’s] a non-beginner ‘- because she did things’ differently’.
Prince Harry’s mother told journalist Martin Bashir: ‘Because I do things differently, because I don’t follow a rules book, because I drive with my heart, not my head, and although it gets me in trouble at work , I understand that. But someone has to go out there, love people and show it. ‘
She adds that she suspects that she does not have ‘as many supporters in that environment as I did’ because the royal family saw her as a ‘threat of some kind’, despite the fact that she is ‘here to do good’ and is ‘not one.’ destructive person ‘.
When the Spencers found the monarchy, Saturday, 1 pm to 9 pm, on Channel 5