Charles and Diana: Learning to love each other | Forensic Files

when they first really had a kind of proper conversation together sitting on a bail of hay in July of 1980 in a house
party weekend he was struck by how kind of empathetic she was and said to friends although he wasn't in love with
her he felt that he could learn to love her and he had a model for that which was his his uh grandparents when the
queen Queen Mother married George the 6 it took a little while for them to kind of know each other and learn to love
each other and he thought well if they could learn to love each other Diana and I could learn to love each other but
there was an ex factor in that situation which was Camila who he had fallen in love with back in
1972 you know their relationship had been interrupted and she had married somebody else and then they had resumed
their romance in the couple of years before he met Diana so he had this other very very strong pull toward another
woman

Author Sally Bedell Smith, who has a new book out on the royal family titled "Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life," describes how Diana and Charles were drawn to each other in the early days of their courtship -- but there was always one X factor: Camilla Parker Bowles.

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Brief Summary

Prince Charles reflects on his complex feelings for Diana and Camilla during their early relationship.

Key points

Learning to Love. He believed he could learn to love Diana, inspired by his grandparents' relationship.
The Ex Factor. His past love for Camila complicates his feelings for Diana.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I could learn to love each other.

Reflecting on love and relationships.

0:36WatchMay 22, 2017

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