This new, or ‘new’, book by Andrew Morton will serve to confuse them still further. So what chance for those poor sixth-formers as they go into the examination hall in 2117 to face the Charles and Diana paper? ‘Both sides, writing with hindsight, exaggerated the misery of that time: at an informal photo call on the banks of the River Dee, the couple looked fond and radiant.’īy now, even the most forensic Royal chronicler must be finding it hard to separate fact from fiction. Were those first few weeks of marriage really as unhappy as both made them out to be? One of their most judicious chroniclers, Sarah Bradford, suspects not. Over the years, Charles and Diana contradicted not only each other but also themselves. Which version to believe? Contradiction piles on contradiction, with wildly differing accounts from authors and protagonists alike. ‘The whole thing was a disaster,’ she says, ‘serving only to demonstrate how little they had in common.’ ‘When their two weeks on Britannia were over, the relaxed and sun-soaked newly-weds returned to Britain… Charles looked years younger, and carefree for almost the first time in his life… Diana glowed with contentment.’īut in Junor’s new book about Camilla, she paints a rather different picture of the Royal Honeymoon. The 25th Anniversary edition is a rehash of a rehash of a rehash Three's a crowd: Camilla Parker Bowles, Princess Diana, HRH Prince Charles.
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