

The filmmaker, Jonathan Dimbleby, asks Charles if he was “faithful and honorable” during his marriage to Diana. When the documentary airs, one portion has the opposite effect. Prince Charles had allowed a documentary filmmaker to follow him for a year and a half in the hopes of repairing his reputation, damaged by the stories of adultery. The news breaks only a month after transcripts of a secretly-recorded call between Diana and a man named James Gilbey (in which he calls her by the nickname Squidgy) were published. British tabloids redact the most explicit (and embarrassing) elements of the private call. In January, a transcript of a suggestive, secretly-recorded 1989 phone conversation between Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles (known as Camillagate) is first published in an Australian magazine and a German tabloid. In December, Prime Minister John Major announces that Charles and Diana had officially separated. Questions arise about whether Charles could be king if he was divorced and remarried-under the strictures of the time, he wouldn’t be allowed a second marriage in the Church of England, as the King is the secular head of the church. In June, Andrew Morton’s book Diana: Her True Story is released the Princess of Wales had recorded multiple tapes for the freelancer writer, and its publication shocked the world, thanks to its explosive stories about Diana’s jealousy over Charles’s involvement with Camilla. You've got all the men in the world fall in love with you and you've got two beautiful children, what more do you want?' So I said, 'I want my husband.' And I said, 'I'm sorry I'm in the way.and it must be hell for both of you. She said to me: 'You've got everything you ever wanted. 1989ĭiana confronts Camilla, approaching her at a party and saying, “I know what's going on between you and Charles and I just want you to know that.

1986Īccording to Charles’s authorized biography, he begins an affair with Camilla that year. Charles and Diana will go on to have two sons, Prince William, born in 1982, and Prince Harry, born in 1984, however their relationship soon becomes rocky.
