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Princess Diana & Prince Charles’ Relationship Timeline — PICS

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On Feb. 24, 1981, Diana and Charles announced their enagement. (REX/Shutterstock)
Charles was actually dating Diana’s older sister, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, when they first met — four years before their engagement. At the time of their engagement, there were reports that Sarah was extremely hurt that Charles had chosen Diana, but Diana’s biographer Andrew Morton would later slam those claims, saying the girls were close. (REX/Shutterstock)
Diana and Charles wed in July 1981, in a huge ceremony at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Over 600,000 people came out to see the first commoner to marry into the British royal family in 300 years.  (REX/Shutterstock)
Diana and Charles welcomed their first son, Prince William, in 1982 and then Prince Harry two years later. It was soon after his birth that their relationship began to fall apart. (REX/Shutterstock)
In 1992, ‘Diana: Her True Story’ was published, a book that clearly contained personal accounts from the princess herself and her concerns about Prince Charles’ longstanding extramartial affair with Camilla Parker Bowles. Not long after, British tabloids leaked a tape of a flirty phone call between Camilla and Charles that included statements like, “Oh god. I’ll just live inside your trousers or something. It would be much easier!” and a joke about him wanting to be Camilla’s tampon. The two would go on to marry in 2005, several years after Princess Diana’s death in 1997. (REX/Shutterstock)
A year after his December 1992 separation from Diana, Charles was rumored to be having an affair with personal assistant Tiggy Legge-Bourke. (REX/Shutterstock)
Princess Diana admitted to having a five-year affair with James Hewitt (a riding instructor she hired for her and her sons) who then wrote a tell-all about their relationship entitled ‘Princess in Love.’ “Yes, I adored him. Yes, I was in love with him. But I was very let down,” she said in an interview with the BBC in 1995. (REX/Shutterstock)
After several months of controversy and Diana’s public interview about her marriage, Queen Elizabeth II sent the couple a letter requesting that they divorce immediately. On Aug. 28, 1996, Charles and Diana’s divorce was finalized and the following August she would die in a car crash while being chased by paparazzi. (REX/Shutterstock)
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Princess Diana & Prince Charles’ Relationship Timeline — PICS

On Feb. 24, 1981, Diana and Charles announced their enagement. (REX/Shutterstock)

Princess Diana & Prince Charles’ Relationship Timeline — PICS

Charles was actually dating Diana’s older sister, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, when they first met — four years before their engagement. At the time of their engagement, there were reports that Sarah was extremely hurt that Charles had chosen Diana, but Diana’s biographer Andrew Morton would later slam those claims, saying the girls were close. (REX/Shutterstock)

Princess Diana & Prince Charles’ Relationship Timeline — PICS

Diana and Charles wed in July 1981, in a huge ceremony at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Over 600,000 people came out to see the first commoner to marry into the British royal family in 300 years.  (REX/Shutterstock)

Princess Diana & Prince Charles’ Relationship Timeline — PICS

Diana and Charles welcomed their first son, Prince William, in 1982 and then Prince Harry two years later. It was soon after his birth that their relationship began to fall apart. (REX/Shutterstock)

Princess Diana & Prince Charles’ Relationship Timeline — PICS

In 1992, ‘Diana: Her True Story’ was published, a book that clearly contained personal accounts from the princess herself and her concerns about Prince Charles’ longstanding extramartial affair with Camilla Parker Bowles. Not long after, British tabloids leaked a tape of a flirty phone call between Camilla and Charles that included statements like, “Oh god. I’ll just live inside your trousers or something. It would be much easier!” and a joke about him wanting to be Camilla’s tampon. The two would go on to marry in 2005, several years after Princess Diana’s death in 1997. (REX/Shutterstock)

Princess Diana & Prince Charles’ Relationship Timeline — PICS

A year after his December 1992 separation from Diana, Charles was rumored to be having an affair with personal assistant Tiggy Legge-Bourke. (REX/Shutterstock)

Princess Diana & Prince Charles’ Relationship Timeline — PICS

Princess Diana admitted to having a five-year affair with James Hewitt (a riding instructor she hired for her and her sons) who then wrote a tell-all about their relationship entitled ‘Princess in Love.’ “Yes, I adored him. Yes, I was in love with him. But I was very let down,” she said in an interview with the BBC in 1995. (REX/Shutterstock)

Princess Diana & Prince Charles’ Relationship Timeline — PICS

After several months of controversy and Diana’s public interview about her marriage, Queen Elizabeth II sent the couple a letter requesting that they divorce immediately. On Aug. 28, 1996, Charles and Diana’s divorce was finalized and the following August she would die in a car crash while being chased by paparazzi. (REX/Shutterstock)

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