Princess Diana + Prince Charles
This kiss photo made headlines after the breakup
Princess Diana gets in touch with Prince Charles on May 29, 1996.
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It is May 29, 1996. The divorce negotiations for Princess Diana and Prince Charles are in full swing. They both come to parents’ day at the boarding school of their son Prince William – and the princess knows how to use the stage for herself.
“The princess was eager to be there to do her older son a favor, but she was anxious about the event knowing that her husband’s friends, the Knatchbulls and Romseys, and their children, would also be there also sent to boarding school, “recalls Princess Diana’s butler at the time, Paul Burrell, in his book” In the service of my queen “. And indeed: All of the named gave the princess the cold shoulder. And that wasn’t all: the seating arrangement also sent a clear signal.
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Princess Diana was seated next to the Rector and Prince Charles was seated next to the Rector’s wife on the other side of the aisle. Diana didn’t show her discomfort about it – on the contrary. She cheated everyone and asked the rector’s wife boldly if she could swap places with her – and of course the questioned woman did not dare to refuse the Princess of Wales a request. And so Charles and Diana sat right next to each other.
A kiss for Prince Charles from Princess Diana
Paul Burrell writes that his boss did not want to let the humiliation sit on her and explains: “The camera crews from the BBC and ITN were waiting in front of the school because of her. When the Prince and Princess of Wales stepped out of the Internet as proud parents and went their separate ways went, the princess hurried to her husband’s car, put her hand on his shoulder, kissed his cheek and whispered: ‘Goodbye, darling.’ That brief moment of apparent unity ran through all the news broadcasts that evening […]. “
However, the media did not fall for the show. “It was a formal greeting, or a formal ‘goodbye’ in this case, probably for William’s sake”, Royal expert Ingrid Seward analyzed what had happened at the time. Certainly there is no longer any love between Diana and Charles, so the kiss would be pure mean nothing, she was sure Seward was right: On August 28, 1996, the divorce between Prince Charles and Princess Diana became final.
Source used: “In the service of my queen” by Paul Burrell, complete paperback edition, published in 2004 by Knaur Taschenbuch Verlag, youtube.com