Camila Shand, Queen Consort, has been subjected to some backlash from royal fans after she redesigned Princess Diana’s wedding gift and appeared in public with it. Continue reading to know what the royal fans said about it. King Charles III and his late ex-wife, Princess Diana, had one of the most controversial marriages. Although the pair were married for 15 years, their union was doomed from the beginning. In due time, the public found out that Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s divorce was tied to the former’s affair with Camilla Shand.
The Prince and Camilla met in 1970 and started a romance that continued till the former was ready to tie the knot. Unfortunately, as much as Prince Charles could wish it, he could not marry her. Shand was not deemed fit for the role of a royal wife due to her lack of aristocratic bloodline. In addition, she was not considered “virginal” enough to be Prince Charles’ wife. However, the pair still maintained their close bond, and after the Prince married Princess Diana, they rekindled their romance. Despite being married, Shand was still Charles’s number one.
Eventually, they would walk down the aisle, and the Prince made sure to give his longtime love the best, including Princess Diana’s wedding gift piece. Here are more details of everything that happened between Princess Diana, Prince Charles, and Camilla Shand.
Two days before Prince Charles and Princess Diana tied the knot, the Prince of Wales gifted Shand with a beautiful bracelet. Surprisingly, the Princess revealed that she knew about the gift two weeks before the wedding. According to Princess Diana, someone in the office had informed her about the gold chain bracelet. The jewelry piece had a blue enamel disc with the inscriptions “G and F” (Gladys and Fred) intertwined in it — Prince Charles and Shand’s nicknames. Princess Diana confessed that when she finally saw the parcel containing the gift, she was torn apart. In her words:
“I was devastated. He’d found the virgin, the sacrificial lamb, and in a way, he was obsessed with me. But it was hot and cold, hot and cold.” During lunchtime that same day, Prince Charles took the bracelet to present to Shand, and at that point, Princess Diana was heartbroken and confided in her sisters, noting that she would not marry the Prince. So I went upstairs, had lunch with my sisters who were there and said: ‘I can’t marry him, I can’t do this, this is absolutely unbelievable,'” Princess Diana explained. However, two days later, on a Wednesday, Prince Charles and Princess Diana got married.
Princess Diana’s 1981 wedding enchanted the world, and she received many presents. But the stunning diamond brooch she received from the late Queen Elizabeth II stood out. The jewelry piece, known as “Prince of Wales’ Feathers Brooch,” was first handed to Princess Alexandra of Denmark in 1863. The Ladies of North Wales had gifted Princess Alexandra the jewelry before her wedding to King Edward VII.