Diana Spencer: Princess of Wales

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             Prince Charles asked Diana to marry him on February 14, 1981 (Oleksy 25). She immediately said yes, but Charles told her to wait and think about her answer while he was away and tell him when he returned (Oleksy 25). This was the beginning of the continuous doubts about their marriage Diana would have. Walter Oleksy states in his book, Princess Diana, that both Charles and Diana had doubts about their marriage from the beginning. When Charles returned from his trip, Diana once again told him that she would marry him and the engagement was official. Diana and Charles were soon going to be married. Their engagement was a happy time for Diana. They went to parties together and danced together, and there was no mistaking it, they both were truly in love. There was only one thing bothering Diana. Charles seemed to be in love with another woman beside her. That woman's name was Camilla Parker-Bowles, whom Charles was constantly in contact with throughout their engagement (Oleksy 50). Charles told Diana that Camilla was just a close friend that he had known for a long time, and Diana, being loyal to her husband, believed him. Her trust in him lessened, however, when she found out that two weeks before their wedding Charles had given Camilla a bracelet with the letters G and F inscribed in it (Oleksy 50).
             Several months after their engagement, their wedding day came. According to Walter Oleksy's book, Princess Diana, the Archbishop of Canterbury was quoted on Diana's wedding day saying, "This is the stuff of which fairy tales are made" (25). Diana was said to have not really been happy on her wedding day because she could not stop thinking about the Camilla problem (Oleksy 51
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