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A new documentary has revealed that Prince Charles was considered “a bit of a liability” during his younger years as he held brief relationships with a number of women and refused to bow to family pressure to get married. The documentary ‘Charles and the Women Who Could Have Been Queen’ takes a closer look at Prince Charles’ “exciting love life” before he married Princess Diana in 1981.
Royal expert Ayesha Hazarika spoke on Jeremy Vine about her involvement in the documentary, saying: “You just think of Prince Charles as Diana and then Camilla Parker-Bowles obviously, but he had quite an exciting love life.”
“He was really questing for that great love and running into a lot of relationships and proposing quite quickly to people.”
A clip from the documentary shows a fellow royal expert saying Prince Charles became “a bit of a liability because he was in and out of too many beds”.
Prince Charles eventually settled down with Lady Diana Spencer after a 6-month courtship.
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The couple were married at St Paul’s Cathedral on July 29, 1981 in a televised ceremony that was viewed by 750 million people worldwide.
However, before his marriage to Princess Diana, the Prince of Wales was romantically connected to a number of young women.
During the 1970s, he conducted relationships with Lady Georgiana Russell, Lady Jane Wellesley and Lady Sarah Spencer, his future sister-in-law.
He also proposed to Amanda Knatchbull, who was his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten’s granddaughter. Lord Mountbatten was encouraging of the match and convinced the Prince of Wales to begin a correspondence with Amanda.
In 1993, their affair caused shockwaves after an intimate telephone conversation between the pair was leaked to the tabloid media, in a scandal named Camillagate.
Meanwhile, the marriage between Prince Charles and Diana had been strained for several years and they had announced their separation in 1992.
In an explosive interview with BBC Panorama, Princess Diana spoke of the pair’s relationship and said “there were three of us in that marriage so it was a bit crowded.” The interview caused national outcry and the Queen wrote to both Charles and Diana to request that they formally divorce.
Prince Charles went on to marry Camilla Parker-Bowles in 2005. Princess Diana died in 1997 at the age of 36 after her vehicle lost control in a tunnel in Paris.
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