Princess Margaret allegedly made a brutal comment regarding Princess Diana’s divorce from King Charles. The late Princess of Wales married the future King of England, then-Prince Charles, on July 21, 1981, in what was dubbed the “wedding of the century”.
But cracks in their relationship led to their very public separation in 1992 before they finalised their divorce on August 28, 1996. It was exactly one year before the late princess died in a car crash in Paris, France, on August 31, 1997.
Initially, the late Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip attempted to reconcile Charles and Diana, but the monarch later advised them to divorce after no progress was made.
However, the true reaction from behind Palace walls has never been revealed to the public.
Some snippets of it have come to light due to various royal watchers and sources with insight within the Palace, including British journalist and long-time columnist for the Sunday Telegraph, Kenneth Rose, whose private journals were posthumously released in 2018 and 2019, following his death in 2014.
In them, there is one segment where he wrote about the late Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret’s reaction to Diana’s divorce from the then-Prince of Wales.
In an entry dated May 31, 1996, three months before the divorce was finalised, and serialised by the Daily Mail, Mr Rose wrote: “Princess Margaret says: ‘How glad the family will be to be rid of the wives, Diana and Fergie.”
It wasn’t just Charles and Diana who divorced during that year.
Sarah Ferguson, or Fergie, who was married to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who has now lost his titles and honours, also finalised her divorce with the former Duke in April 1996, a month before Margaret’s comment.
They had been married since July 1986.
Andrew and Fergie kept a close relationship despite their divorce and have been living in Royal Lodge in Windsor since 2008.
They are expected to leave the royal residence this year due to the furore following new details emerging regarding their relationship to convicted paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.
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