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Queen ‘thought Princess Diana was better match for Prince Andrew’, new book claims

2024-02-05 00:00:00.0 独立报-英国新闻原网页

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The late Queen thought Princess Diana was better suited for Prince Andrew than her eldest son the Prince of Wales, a new book has claimed.

Ingrid Seward, the former editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, has shed light on the early days between the future King Charles and Diana in her new book My Mother and I.

In a new extract published in the Daily Mail, Seward writes the late Queen Elizabeth II first became aware of Lady Diana Spencer when she visited her sister Jane in 1980 who was married to Robert Fellowes, her then private secretary, at their cottage on the Balmoral estate.

Diana was invited to spend four days at the castle to attend a royal house party after her second visit.

According to Seward, everyone was “enchanted” by the future princess who woke up earlier than the other ladies to walk around the garden.

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But the book claims the late Queen had two reservations about the new woman in her son’s life. Firstly, she did not know if anyone at the age of 19 could differentiate between the man and his royal duty. Secondly, she thought Diana would be better suited to her younger son, Prince Andrew.

Diana, Princess of Wales, during her interview with Martin Bashir for the BBC (BBC, PA)

(PA Media)

King Charles and Princess Diana had an age gap of 15 years between them.

The biographer said: “Most of the ladies do not get up until after the guns have gone out, but Diana was always up early. If you looked out of your window at a quarter to eight, you would see her walking in the garden, and she made a great point of being there to see them off.

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