CHARLES & DIANA - Their PROMISE TO EACH OTHER

THE COUPLE'S FAIRY TALE ENDED BADLY, BUT THEIR EARLY RELATIONSHIP WAS SPARKED BY REAL LOVE

Four months after the death of Princess Diana, her ex-husband, Prince Charles, wrote to a friend about the “unbearable emptiness” he felt. He said he “longed to wave a magic wand to transform the situation” and relieve his “bewilderment and confusion.”

Diana and Charles endured one of the 1990s most acrimonious divorces, but they both separately acknowledged that their 1981 marriage began in love. “There was a period of great love between them,” says royal biographer Ingrid Seward. “And she wanted the boys [Prince William and Prince Harry] to know that.”