Princess Diana’s heartbreaking moment she discovered Prince Charles' affair with Camilla

PRINCESS Diana revealed the heartbreaking moment she discovered her husband Prince Charles was having an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles.

Prince William and Prince Harry’s late mother told how she made the painful discovery her husband was being unfaithful just weeks before her Royal Wedding.

Princess Diana told royal biographer, Andrew Morton, how she discovered a parcel in the office of one of Charles’ employees, which she opened.

In it she discovered a bracelet engraved with with the letters G and F, which stood for Gladys and Fred - Prince Charles and Camilla’s nicknames for each other.

Speaking in 1997 - 16 years after the discovery - Princess Diana described her “rage”.

She said: "I was still too immature to understand all the messages coming my way.

"And then someone in his office told me that my husband has had a bracelet made for her.


"So I opened it and there was the bracelet. I was devastated, and I said 'Well, he's going to give it to her tonight'.

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Princess Diana made the heartbreaking discovery just before she was to marry Charles (Image: GETTY )

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Princess Diana knew Charles was having an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles (Image: GETTY )


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"So rage, rage, rage. You know, 'Why can't you be honest with me?' But no, absolutely cut me dead.

"It was as if he’d made his decision and if it wasn't going to work, it wasn't going to work."

Princess Diana, who died in a car crash in Paris in 1997, would go on to marry Prince Charles in a spectacular Royal Wedding at St Paul’s Cathedral in July 1981, and the pair had two sons, Princes William and Harry.

The pair divorced in 1996.

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Princess Diana's husband Charles was close friends with Camilla (Image: GETTY )

While Charles and Camilla met when they were young, they both married other people - Camilla married Andrew Parker-Bowles, a retired military officer, but the pair divorced in 2005.

After Diana’s death, the couple brought their relationship out in the open, with Camilla attending a hunt with Charles and his two sons.

The pair were first photographed together as a couple in January 1999 as they left the Ritz Hotel after celebrating a party for Camilla’s sister, Annabel.

Charles, 69, finally married Camilla, 70, in 2005, in a low key ceremony at Windsor Guildhall and Camilla was given an engagement ring that once belonged to his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

The Queen and Prince Philip, as well as Camilla’s parents, did not attend the wedding, supposedly because the couple had both previously been married.