A lip reader has revealed the very important reminder the Queen gave Diana on her wedding day.
Charles proposed in the nursery at Windsor Castle on February 3, 1981, just six months after he started dating Diana.
Their engagement was made public when the couple announced their impending nuptials on February 24, 1981 and Britain held its breath in anticipation for the upcoming wedding.
They were engaged for five months before marrying in July of that year in a spectacular ceremony broadcast on screens across the country.
Charles and Diana were married at St Paul’s Cathedral in London and they chose the cathedral rather than the traditional venue for royal weddings, Westminster Abbey, because it could accommodate more people – 3,500 guests.
MailOnline can reveal the future king said “you’re perfect”, then told Diana to “give me your hand”, which she did, and he then told her “kiss”.
When the future king saw his bride, he was greeted with chants of “give her a kiss”
Queen Elizabeth pointed at the crowd while whispering to the princess to “look” at the people who have “been there all day” to see her.
Lip reader revealed important reminder the Queen gave Diana on her wedding day
MailOnline can now reveal he said “you’re perfect”, then told her to “give me your hand”, which she did, and then told her “kiss”.
But after other members of the royal family joined them on the balcony, the then Prince of Wales commented: “It’s been an awfully long time. We have to eat.
Queen Elizabeth pointed at the crowd while whispering to the princess to “look” at the people who have “been there all day” to see her.
When the future king saw his bride, he was greeted with chants of “give her a kiss,” to which he complied.
Sources said that despite her shyness, Diana loved the glamor that marrying a prince would offer, and that there were “a few tears” and champagne when she made the announcement.
But Penny Thornton, who was Princess Di’s royal astrologer, said Prince Charles left Diana “devastated” when he told her he didn’t love her the day before their wedding.
Charles questioned his decision to marry Diana so deeply that he considered calling off the wedding altogether, royal journalist Robert Jobson revealed in a tell-all biography published in 2018.
He felt the couple were “incompatible”, but felt the impending nuptials were beyond his control and thought ending the engagement would have been “cataclysmic”.
However, the Queen’s former press secretary said that despite Charles’ misgivings, the two were truly in love – and couldn’t keep their hands off each other as newlyweds.
According to Dickie Arbiter, there was a “real relationship” from the start, with “real love and real happiness.”
They were engaged for five months before getting married
Sources said that despite her shyness, Diana loved the glamor that marrying a prince would offer.
After their divorce, in April 2005, the Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles.
In recordings released after her death, Diana noted that “the Camilla affair” had cast a shadow over the day.
“I was desperately trying to be mature about the situation, but I didn’t have the foundation to do so and I couldn’t talk to anyone about it.”
The princess also revealed she had a “really bad” binge the night before, eating everything in sight, only to be “sick as a parrot” later.
In addition to the bride and groom’s families, Margaret Thatcher, then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, attended the wedding of Charles and Diana.
Other guests in attendance included Nancy Reagan, French President François Mitterrand and a host of royal dignitaries from around the world. Camilla Parker Bowles was also present.
The event, known as the “Wedding of the Century,” was broadcast on televisions around the world. As many as 750 million people in 74 countries watched Charles and Diana get married.
Charles and Diana’s vows broke with tradition when Diana omitted the promise to “obey” her husband. She was the first royal to do so, but not the last: Kate Middleton also ditched the phrase when she married Prince William in 2011, as did Meghan Markle when she married Harry in 2018.
The event dubbed “The Wedding of the Century” was broadcast on televisions around the world.
In April 2005, the Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles. The Queen and Prince Philip – mother and father of the groom – were nowhere to be found
Both Charles and Diana betrayed their vows. Diana called her new husband “Philip Charles” instead of “Charles Philip” and Charles understood the phrase “All my material possessions with you I share” to be completely wrong, saying instead: “All your possessions with you I share them with you. »
In December 1992, John Major, then Prime Minister, announced that the Prince and Princess of Wales had decided to separate.
In a television documentary made the following year by Jonathan Dimbleby, the prince confessed to his own adultery.
Diana’s own riposte to Charles took place on November 20, 1995, when more than 23 million British television viewers watched the princess nervously but deftly answer questions from Martin Bashir, a young Panorama journalist.
“There were three of us in this marriage,” was his bold remark about Camilla’s situation.
The dream marriage officially ended in August 1995.
But barely a year and three days later, the British ambassador in Paris called Balmoral around 1 a.m., waking the permanent private secretary, Robert Janvrin, from his sleep. The embassy was receiving police reports, he said, of a serious car accident involving the Princess of Wales.
News of Diana’s death arrived from Paris shortly before 4 a.m.
And in April 2005, the Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles.
The Queen and Prince Philip – the groom’s mother and father – were nowhere to be seen at the civil ceremony.
Later, however, Queen Elizabeth grew fond of Camilla, so much so that in 2022 the late monarch publicly announced that she would like her daughter-in-law to become queen consort when Charles ascends the throne.
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