Why Charles and Diana’s marriage wasn’t meant to be

Whenever I see people saying that despite Charles and Diana should have stick together for the sake of their sons never seem to get the point that their marriage just wasn’t meant to be. I also don’t like a particular claim about the fact that Diana had affairs and I will get into both in this post.

To all extents and purposes Charles and Diana’s marriage was about the closet thing to an arranged marriage people who were living around the 1981 time would ever see. Charles had to marry someone and all the eligible young princesses were not viable because they’ll all Catholics and at that time that was a no-no for the heir to the Crown. So they had to look elsewhere so they found Diana. There’s a clip from some interview they did after the engagement and Charles said “what being in love is” so it seems like he never loved Diana. I mean Diana was lucky she at least got to spend time with her future husband unlike women who had been in her position in the millenniums before where they don’t ever get to meet the husband-to-be until the wedding day or even worse-when they moved to a new country because the husband-to-be couldn’t make it to the wedding- and had to use a proxy instead to get married to the woman. Diana was having second-thoughts about marrying Charles to the point she called her older sisters and told them and they didn’t give a darn and said something that basically was: “that’s too bad you can’t back out now because you’re face is on the tea-towels now”

Now regardless of whether or not the claims of Diana having affairs herself anyone who knows history would be aware that in the past that it was quiet common for in non-love marriages in nobility for the partners to have other partners. There’s a reason for why if the estate nobility residence area-ie the castle or manor house was big enough that there would be separate bedrooms for the Master and Mistress of the house. So they could potentially if they didn’t sleep together could have ‘musical bed” with someone other then their married spouse. And the other partner didn’t mind at all. According to the fictional TV show Downton Abbey in Season 4 Lady Edith mentions an estate called Eaton Lodge where Robert and Cora stayed at some point where Lady Warwick, the Countess of Warwick would have the stable bells ringing at 6am for the couples playing “Musical beds” to get back to their legal-married partners before the servants showed up for the day. But since Robert and Cora were in the right bed they didn’t have to worry.

So that is my particular thoughts of why Charles and Diana’s marriage didn’t work along with the fact about the Queen Elizabeth not allowing Charles to originally marry Camila, the new Queen Consort even if we never technically use the name “consort” as part of that title