And sometimes to simply exist, you have to get rid of the crazies in your life and let them make themselves miserable. Self preservation against bad choice spouses can be the difference between happiness and lifelong misery. Not saying this personally as I have an absolutely wonderful ex, but not all people are worth giving up your own sanity for. Divorce can be salvation for many. I’m into genealogy and my family has divorced since the 1600s so I’m a big believer in applauding when someone realizes they’ve made a big mistake.
Ditching Diana was one of Charles’ best moves.
A few years later, however, when the marriage was crumbling, Diana did turn in desperation to her mother-in-law.
She’d sit in the page’s vestibule next to the Queen’s sitting room, wait for any visitors to come out, then push her way in without waiting to be announced.
Often in tears, she’d rant about Charles, saying he hated her, and rail against her mother, her stepmother, her sister Jane and her husband Robert Fellowes, and anyone else who had upset her. Everyone else was to blame: Diana insisted that she was being victimised and no one understood her.
The Queen came to dread these meetings. She’d never had to deal with such outbursts in her life, and they left her feeling drained, despondent and confused.
‘She just procrastinated,’ a member of the Royal Household said at the time. She listened to what Diana said, ‘but no solution was ever put forward.’
Prince Charles, meanwhile, was reduced to shouting down the telephone at his mother to try to make her understand the depths of his unhappiness.
Most of the Royal Family blamed him for the state of the marriage; if Charles had been firmer in the beginning, they thought, many of the later difficulties with Diana would have been avoided.
But the Prince was either too accommodating, too timid or – as many of the household staff maintained – too weak to call his wife to order.
Needless to say, there was far less understanding of mental illness in the 1980s than there is today.
Princess Margaret felt that the princess, who was throwing herself into a series of affairs, was making a fool of her husband.
The Queen Mother, for her part, suspected that Diana was incapable of telling the truth.
Like his mother and grandmother, Charles hated confrontation and did what he usually did when faced with a crisis beyond his immediate control: he turned away from it. When things got too much, he drove to Wiltshire for a few hours with his lover Camilla Parker Bowles, who herself suffered from her husband’s infidelities.
She seemed like a rock of sanity amid the storm of hysteria.
Arranged/forced marriages seldom work. He was too old for her, and loved someone else.
All gleaned from questionable yellow journalism sources who cite...un-named royal officials” for their info and then made up all the rest. It sounds like it all comes from the same outfit that made up the Russian fake dossier against Trump. The fact is Chrles cheated on his wife...period..don’t care how it gets dressed up. Oh he was so unhappy...boo hoo! Diana may have had issues too boo hoo for her!
His pronouncements on global warming and his playing patty cake with muzzies makes him scum.