Princess Diana ‘burst out laughing’ when Charles proposed to her

Princess Diana and King Charles III’s wedding may have featured a fairytale ceremony and one of the most memorable wedding dresses in history, but the way the then-Prince of Wales popped the question was anything but swoon-worthy. In fact, it made for a pretty awkward moment.

The then 20-year-old Princess of Wales, Lady Diana Spencer, had only met Charles a total of 12 times when he got down on one knee. According to the story, Charles invited Diana to Windsor Castle and greeted her with, “I’ve missed you so much.” He then led her to the castle’s nursery, where he proposed in a somewhat unromantic manner, according to legend. The mirror.

While many proposals are met with smiles, tears of joy and tight hugs, Diana responded with laughter.

“She burst out laughing,” royal expert Ingrid Seward said in the Channel 5 documentary. Charles and Di: The Truth Behind Their Marriage“I think it was probably her nervousness. She didn’t think it was the most romantic proposal, but she did it.”

Royal biographer Christopher Wilson echoed this sentiment: “She was completely devastated by it, she didn’t see it coming.”

Diana elaborated in an interview after the proposal. “He said to me, ‘Do you realize that one day you’re going to be Queen?’ And I said, ‘I love you so much, I love you so much,'” she revealed. “He said, ‘Whatever love means.’ He said it at that moment. So I thought that was great. I thought he meant it.”

Charles’ actions following the proposal have been met with criticism business He immediately called his mother on the phone. “He didn’t pick Diana up and hug her and do what we would do when we propose to the person we love,” Wilson said. “He called his mother, just to say, ‘Here it is. You asked me to marry someone and I made it happen. What he did was he finally found a woman.'”

It didn’t take long for their marriage problems and discontent to surface. Shortly after news of their impending union broke, the royal couple sat down for an interview with BBC News Angela Rippon, the show’s presenter, and Andrew Gardener, an ITV presenter. At the end of their conversation, Rippon wished them a life full of happiness, to which Charles responded by looking at Diana, who looked down at the floor.

Rippon reflected on the revealing moment after watching the interview in full for the first time for the Charles and Di documentary. “With hindsight, you can read a lot more in body language, in what was said, in the looks that were given, in the reactions. That’s the value of hindsight, isn’t it?”

She continued: “The look on Diana’s face at the end says it all. Maybe we should have taken a lot more from those five seconds at the end of the interview. It might have told us a lot more about what was coming next.”

Charles and Diana separated in 1992 and divorced in 1996. A year later, Diana tragically died in a car accident. In the meantime, Charles married Camilla Rosemary Shand in 2005, whom he had dated and had a relationship with throughout his marriage to Diana.