We all know that a royal's life isn't really a fairytale in the twenty-first century. But in the 1980s, everyone believed in storybook love before instant messaging and social media. Nonetheless, life was far from “happily ever after” back then as it is today.
Even though their marriage ended more than 20 years ago, Prince Charles and Princess Diana's whirlwind passion – and how it ended – appears to be more relevant than ever. Aside from Meghan Markle's previous experiences, Netflix's The Crown brought everything back to the forefront. However, the show is not a documentary. This is the real story of what happened between Charles and Diana and how everything went so wrong.
Doomed from the beginning
Buckingham Palace wrote the concluding chapter of a fairytale marriage that went horribly wrong in 1992. The Palace announced in just seven phrases that the Prince and Princess of Wales's marriage was practically over, 11 years after they married in front of the world. Though no one seemed to realize it at the time, their relationship was doomed from the start. So, how did everything go so wrong? Diana wasn't the only Spencer girl Charles set his eye on…