Princess Diana wanted to call her wedding off after Prince Charles told her he "didn't love her" the night before their nuptials, according to an explosive new documentary. Astrologer Penny Thornton, who had regular contact with Diana, dropped the bomb during an appearance on the ITV documentary "The Diana Interview: Revenge of a Princess," which aired Monday night.
"One of the most shocking things that Diana told me was that the night before the wedding Charles told her that he didn't love her," Thornton said, as reported by Newsweek.
"I think Charles didn't want to go into the wedding on a false premise. He wanted to square it with her and it was devastating for Diana. She didn't want to go through with the wedding at that point, she thought about not attending the wedding," Thornton added.
Things between Diana and Charles fell apart when the prince admitted in 1994 to an affair with current wife Camilla Parker Bowles. Dr. James Colthurst, a close friend of Diana, recalled Diana's reaction to how she was being treated by the royal family after the admission.
"I remember she was becoming more and more incensed by what was going on and the fact that the whole organization, as she saw it, was helping to support the relationship between Camilla and Prince Charles," he said. "She would have moments of extreme anger and wanting to bash the mattress with the tennis racket and that kind of thing, and I said, 'Well, I think there are ways of lancing the abscess.'"
Colthurst and Diana recorded tapes in which Diana openly spoke of her troubled marriage. The tapes were later handed over to biographer Andrew Morton, who published "Diana: Her True Story" in 1992. In the book, Morton shone light on the various issues that strained things between Diana and Charles. One heartbreaking incident arose following the birth of their second child, Prince Harry.
"I knew Harry was going to be a boy because I saw on the scan," Diana recounted in one of the tapes that were transcribed in Morton's book. "Charles always wanted a girl. He wanted two children and he wanted a girl. I knew Harry was a boy and I didn't tell him."
Charles' first comment upon seeing Harry was reported to be, "Oh God, it's a boy," and his second remark was, "and he's even got red hair."
It was enough to break Diana's heart. In the tape, she described how "something inside me closed off. By then, I knew Charles had gone back to his lady [Bowles], but somehow we'd managed to have Harry."
Diana and Charles divorced in 1996. A year later, Diana died in the hospital after being injured in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris.
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