{"id":34457,"date":"2026-08-09T11:43:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=34457"},"modified":"2026-08-09T11:43:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:43:54","slug":"the-gift-that-ruined-princess-diana-and-prince-charless-honeymoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=34457","title":{"rendered":"The Gift That Ruined Princess Diana and Prince Charles\u2019s Honeymoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap body dropcap\">\u201cAt night, I dreamt of Camilla the whole time.\u201d In the midst of her honeymoon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/topic\/princess-diana\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\">Princess Diana<\/a> discovered the gifts that her husband\u2014the man who would become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/topic\/king-charles-iii\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\">King Charles<\/a>\u2014and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/topic\/camilla-parker-bowles\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\">Camilla Parker Bowles<\/a> had exchanged before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2018\/04\/princess-diana-royal-wedding\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\">their wedding<\/a>. The young princess was devastated and couldn\u2019t stop thinking about Camilla, never imagining that this woman would become the third protagonist in the most famous <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vanityfair.com\/article\/20051201189\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\">love triangle<\/a> in the history of the British monarchy\u2014a situation that would later lead her to utter the infamous phrase: \u201cThere were three of us in this marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer remains one of the most lavish ever celebrated. The ceremony, which nearly 750 million television viewers watched worldwide, made history in more ways than one. The bride\u2019s veil measured 39 feet, and her train became the longest ever worn at a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vanityfair.com\/article\/2018\/5\/the-great-british-weddings\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\">British royal wedding<\/a>. But not money, nor records, nor media attention brought happiness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Very quickly, the fairytale turned into a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vanityfair.com\/article\/2014\/5\/the-mouse-that-roared\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\">nightmare<\/a>. The newlyweds set sail for a 12-day honeymoon across the Mediterranean aboard the royal yacht Britannia. In the middle of their trip, the first arguments broke out. In recordings made for Andrew Morton\u2019s 1992 biography, published by <em><a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/people.com\/princess-diana-dreamed-camilla-during-honeymoon-with-charles-12028588\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/people.com\/princess-diana-dreamed-camilla-during-honeymoon-with-charles-12028588&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/princess-diana-dreamed-camilla-during-honeymoon-with-charles-12028588\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>,<\/em> Lady Diana confided to Morton that she had discovered a \u201cfarewell\u201d bracelet that Charles had intended to give to Camilla before the wedding.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"paywall\"><strong>Cuff Links Given by Camilla<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Although this gift initially troubled Diana, it was actually the gift Camilla gave Charles that seriously worried her. After seeing two photos of Camilla fall out of her husband\u2019s planner, Lady Di noticed the personalized cuff links he was wearing. \u201cCuff links appeared on his wrists: two intertwined \u2018C\u2019s, similar to those of Chanel. I understood immediately; I knew exactly what they were. \u2018Camilla gave them to you, didn\u2019t she?\u2019 Diana asked. \u2018Yes, so what? It\u2019s a gift from a friend.\u2019 And let me tell you, we had quite a fight after that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The fairytale romance began to crack as the young princess realized the depth of her husband\u2019s relationship with the woman he would eventually marry in 2005. The Princess of Wales found herself thinking about Camilla for the rest of her vacation. \u201cAt night, I dreamt of Camilla the whole time,\u201d Diana confessed. \u201cI was obsessed by Camilla, totally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The newlyweds saw the distance between them growing. In a letter Charles wrote from the yacht, he stated: \u201cDiana dashes about chatting up all the sailors and the cooks in the galley etc. while I remain hermit-like on the veranda deck, sunk with pure joy into one of Laurens van der Post\u2019s books.\u201d Even on their honeymoon, the newlyweds were already spending their time apart\u2014a situation that foreshadowed the rest of their marriage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">After 10 tumultuous years of marriage, Charles and Diana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/magazine\/1993\/02\/princess-diana-revenge-anthony-holden-cover\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\">separated<\/a> in 1992 and officially divorced four years later. Both admitted to having extramarital affairs, notably Charles\u2019s rekindled affair with Camilla, whom he married in 2005, years after <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vanityfair.com\/article\/2004\/10\/the-diana-mysteries\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\">Diana\u2019s death<\/a> in a car accident in Paris in 1997.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAt night, I dreamt of Camilla the whole time.\u201d In the midst of her honeymoon, Princess Diana discovered the gifts that her husband\u2014the man who would become King Charles\u2014and Camilla Parker Bowles had exchanged before their wedding. The young princess was devastated and couldn\u2019t stop thinking about Camilla, never imagining that this woman would become&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6a7211c695ef2a17981e3313\/16:9\/w_1280,c_limit\/1151160192","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-gossip"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}