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Diana’s Memorial Service; Who should go?.

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To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, a special memorial service is being planned this week and there is already much criticism of who is on the guest list. Of course, the main bone for contention is the inclusion of Prince Charles’ wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and, even though I kind of like her, I think  this is rightly so.

Of course Prince Charles should be there; he was her husband and is the father of their two sons. He escorted her body back to the UK from Paris that day and successfully argued that her casket should bear the Royal Standard. Not only that though, he really did love her even though most of us were led to believe he did not. He was obviously not ‘in love’ with her, but he definately did love her. And very much too I believe.

But Camilla should not be there as well. From the very off Camilla was the constant thorn in Diana’s side. I think Diana knew from the beginning that she had won her Prince, but not his heart. And that was the whole problem. Charles had always been in love with Camilla; no female, no matter who she was or where she came from, was going to be able to compete with her. So things ran against Diana from the start.

Charles did try I think. He should have married Camilla years ago when he had the chance, but he didn’t. In my opinion the only possible way that this marriage could have been salvaged is if Camilla had made it clear to Charles that they were no longer an ‘item’. He was now married; his marriage was vital to the monarchy, and he had to forget her and concentrate on his new young wife. But she did not. And he did not.

She hovered in the background allowing Charles to come to her whenever he needed to, and even though she obviously loved him as well, she should have cut all her ties with him. Knowing Camilla was always going to be there for him gave Charles the tiniest excuse to ignore what was happening with Diana, to rely on the safety net she provided.

I think the whole saga, and it is a saga, is so sad. Charles and Camilla had never fallen out of love, had married people they shouldn’t have and it took a monumental tragedy for them to start on the path of properly being together. At Diana’s expense it seems. It must have been agony to have known that her husband was pining for someone else all the time he was with her. And lets face it…he was. It may seem strange, but I think the only person who could have saved that marriage was…Camilla.

I do believe that Charles truly loved Diana but the thing was his heart was not in it. And that is the secret ingrediant…the heart. He surely cannot be blamed for that. You cannot be in love with two people, or, force yourself to fall in love with someone just at the whim of a few people; or a few million people. Or at the whim of the media, and I feel the media fell in love with Diana before anyone did. Charles really had no choice did he?.  I believe he still feels her loss today, and  I suspect, more than a tinge of regret about what ‘could have been’. 

The media, by pressuring Diana and Charles, started all this in 1980…and, unfortunately, they were still there 17 years later when it all finished in a Paris tunnel.

A love story that stole our hearts, started and ended, by the media.

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