Author claims Charles wanted to ditch Diana
Prince Charles debated calling off his wedding to Diana, a new book has revealed.
In an official biography to mark his 70th birthday, the heir to the throne said he felt powerless to cancel the wedding, despite knowing the pair were incompatible.
He said breaking the engagement “would have been cataclysmic” but told friends: “I desperately wanted to get out of the wedding in 1981, when during the engagement I discovered just how awful the prospects were.”
Author Robert Jobson, a veteran royal correspondent, spent 18 months on tours with the royal family. Charles at Seventy: Thoughts, Hopes and Dreams was written with the cooperation of Clarence House.
Included among the sensational claims are Prince Charles’s shock at both Prince William and Harry’s behaviour, as well as his dislike of Tony Blair.
It also explains how Charles wanted to challenge “pernicious” lies about him, which he believed were being spread by the late Princess Diana.
According to the author, the prince has remained troubled about the circumstances surrounding the wedding and his inability to call it off ever since the event. Ingrid Seaward, editor of Majesty magazine, said: “This effectively rewrites the Charles and Diana story with its significant interpretation that Charles as well as Diana felt the marriage was doomed from the beginning.”