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Anonymous wrote:Prince Charles said to Diana:
Did you really think I would be the first Prince of Wales to not have a mistress
Diana said she kissed a Prince and got a frog
She was very naive about the situation, poor thing.
Diana had misgivings and her sisters pressured her into the marriage.
I just don’t understand why Charles would marry a 19 year old with the plan on having basically a loveless marriage. Would have made a lot more sense to marry someone closer to his own age. Like there wasn’t a lesbian daughter of an aristo he couldn’t have a fake relationship with while pursuing his affairs?
In 1900, Charles would have married a European princess of the royal blood who was also a proper virgin as those were the moral norms of the time. In 1950, Charles would have a nice selection of virgin daughters of premier aristocrats in Britain. By 1980, virgin daughters were pretty thin on the ground. Diana was one of the few who was apparently a genuine virgin. He was told to take Diana.
It's all very odd to modern eyes, but it was one of those instances where the monarchy was trying to apply older rules from a different world that no longer existed to a very different modern world and Charles was trapped by it. But they certainly learned from it, the topic of virginity or social rank never came up with Will and Kate. Who, despite the naysayers, have a pretty happy marriage. I know it's happy because they look very comfortable and normal around each other. And like normal people they have a range of moods and feelings throughout the day and being briefly annoyed doesn't mean you're queueing up for the divorce lawyer. You'd have to be a danged fool to take a brief youtube clip seriously. Very much a danged fool. But then again this thread is filled with danged fools.