Princess Diana 'would have accepted' Charles and Camilla's marriage, claims expert
Princess Diana was famously opposed to Charles and Camilla's marriage, but a Royal expert has now claimed she would have "accepted" it on one condition.
Nearly three decades after the tragic loss of Princess Diana in a devastating car crash in Paris, a Royal expert has shared her thoughts on how Diana might have lived her life, including her feelings towards her ex-husband King Charles and his wife Camilla.
Former BBC Royal correspondent Jennie Bond offered this unexpected insight on the anniversary of Diana's death on August 31, revealing the late Princess's views on her own divorce and its implications for the future.
Jennie told OK!Magazine: "I suspect Diana would have married again if she had lived," adding, "I don't know who she would have married or where she would be living, but if she had found new happiness, it would have eased the way for Charles and Camilla.
The former BBC Royal correspondent then shared what Diana had confided in her during one of their private chats: "At the end of her life, she had accepted that Charles and Camilla were very much in love. She told me in one of our private conversations that she understood that his love for Camilla was stronger than any marriage he might have made to anyone else. But she still didn't see any reason for them to take the extra step of getting married."
However, Jennie believes that Diana might have been able to accept such a union eventually, if she herself had managed to move on and find love again, reports the Mirror.
"I think she would have accepted it in the end, especially if she had remarried herself," she added. " I suspect she would still be involved in the charity work which she found so very life affirming. And perhaps she would have had more children...she certainly hadn't ruled that out when we talked about it."
Charles and Camilla famously tied the knot back in April 2005, eight years on since Diana's tragic death and just two months after publicly revealing their engagement to the world.
They had however, been living together in Clarence House since 2003 before taking the marital plunge.
In addition to Diana's opinion thawing towards her ex-husband, Jennie also believes that had Diana survived the rift between Prince William and Prince Harry may have been avoided, and would certainly never gave grown "so deep" as to see them cut off virtually all contact with one and other.
Jennie also argued that she thought the Princess would've "done her best" to support Harry and wife Meghan Markle and their decision to step back from Royal life, as she herself had "paved the way for that."
"If Diana were still here, I doubt if the rift between her sons would ever have got so deep. She would have found a way to make them understand one another and resolve their differences. And that's another great sadness about the tragedy that led to her death," she concludes.
