'Don't treat me like an idiot': Princess Diana confronted Camilla at her sister's 40th birthday party
LONDON, UK: Even 25 years after Princess Diana's tragic death, her broken marriage with Prince Charles, which took place on July 29, 1981, and ended in 1992, is still remembered. Which, Andrew Morton, the author of the biography 'Diana: Her True Story – In Her Own Words,' earlier mentioned, "Prince Charles is remembered for his first wife. His life has been defined by his marriage."
Depicting Diana's thoughts in the book, Morton reveals the devastating truth about her unhappy marriage and her feelings about Camilla Parker-Bowles, who got married to Charles in 2005 after Diana died in a car crash in 1997. In the book, Diana spoke about Camilla’s sister’s 40th birthday and how it was her worst day of life realizing that "Charles had gone again to Camilla." Morton quoted Diana as saying via DailyMail, "One of many bravest moments of my entire ten years of marriage was when we went to this ghastly occasion. Nobody expected me to turn up to the party [thrown by Lady Annabel Goldsmith in February 1989 for Camilla’s sister’s 40th birthday], but a voice inside me said, ‘Go for the hell of it.’ So I psyched myself up for something awful." "I decided I’m not going to kiss Camilla hello any more. I was going to shake hands with her instead. This was my big step," said Diana, who was feeling frightfully brave and bold.
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The Princess of Wales said, "There were about 40 of us there and we all sat down and, bearing in mind they were all my husband’s age, I was a total fish out of water. But I decided I am going to try my hardest. I was going to make an impact." "After dinner, we were all upstairs and I was chatting away, and suddenly noticed there was no Camilla and no Charles upstairs. So this disturbed me. So I make my way to go downstairs. I know what I’m going to confront myself with. They tried to stop me from going downstairs. ‘Oh, Diana, don’t go down there.’ 'I'm just going to find my husband.'" "I go downstairs, and there is a very happy little threesome going on downstairs -- Camilla, Charles and another man chatting away. So I thought, ‘Right, this is your moment,’ and joined in the conversation as if we were all best friends," narrates Diana. "The other man said, 'I think we ought to go upstairs now.' So we stood up and I said, 'Camilla, I'd love to have a word with you.'"
They both sat down and Diana said, "Camilla, I would just like you to know that I know exactly what is going on." She said, "I don’t know what you’re talking about!" To which Diana responded, "I know what’s going on between you and Charles, and I just want you to know that." "I’m sorry I’m in the way. I obviously am in the way and it must be hell for both of you, but I do know what is going on. Don’t treat me like an idiot. So I went upstairs and people began to disperse," she said and added, "In the car on the way back, my husband was over me like a bad rash and I cried like I have never cried before — it was anger, it was seven years’ pent-up anger coming out. I’d done something, said what I felt. Still the old jealousy and anger swilling around, but it wasn’t so deathly as before."
